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Weekly News Roundup: the Many Ways of Water
This week, water is the big theme in natural security news. From water shortages in Iraq and Kenya, to flooding in Turkey and North Korea—some of it deliberate—the news proved...
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11 September 2009
Eight years ago at this time in the morning, I was in the middle of a long run with my understrength platoon of infantry at Fort Drum. An hour later, I would be sitting in the...
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London calling...
If the AM blog was a soap, this would be the point where a long disappeared character descends the stairs and everyone gasps. In explanation, the bemused character tells every...
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I Bet the Marines Met Their Quotas, Though
Eli Lake was asking me the other day whether or not we had been defeating al-Qaeda these past eight years. I replied that I thought we had not been "beating" al-Qaeda, per se,...
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Time to Call a Krieg a Krieg
If you can get past the firewall or find a paper copy of the Financial Times today, do so in order to read Constanze Stelzenmüller's op-ed on what happened in Kunduz and the e...
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Reading Old Magazines: “To Prevent a World Wasteland: A Proposal”
This week’s edition of Reading Old Magazines takes us back to the dawn of the international environmental governance debate. Writing for the April 1970 issue of Foreign Affair...
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Damn you, subtitles! You're never there when I need you!
I can't speak Hebrew, but I can't wait to see the latest Israeli film to explore the troubled invasion and occupation of Lebanon....
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The Best Excuse
As Josh Foust pointed out in the comments of the below post, the New York Times has some of the very best coverage of the war in Afghanistan because it employs smart, experien...
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A Freed Reporter -- and Blogging Ethics
So early this morning, a New York Times reporter taken captive in Afghanistan was freed by ISAF commandos. (His interpreter, Sultan Munadi, was killed in the rescue attempt, a...
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Much Ado About Oil
In the pages of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy this past month, the country’s leading energy experts have been debating the future of oil, the most important drivers of th...
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Laura Rozen Moves to Politico...
...and her first post is on The Little Bi-Partisan Thank Tank That Could. But she also has a post on the very good civ-mil action plan developed between the U.S. military and ...
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Outrage in Germany, Resignation in Kunduz
Today's Washington Post has a fascinating pair of articles on the Kunduz bombing. The first details the way in which the Kunduz bombing has been received in Germany, while the...
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Thorium and the Navy in the NDAA
As we have posted on this blog before, the Navy has long been researching greener technologies for its transportation needs, proposing everything from seawater-based fuels in ...
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The Worst-Case Scenario
Before the Afghan elections, every assessment you could read and every opinion you could solicit from policy-makers was the same: the worst outcome of the Afghan elections wou...
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Ah, the E17... (updated)
Two years ago, Londonstani convinced me to move to the Baker's Arms in between Walthamstow and Leyton, East London, to study counter-terrorism and counter-isurgency. Today, tw...
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Yes, you did! You invaded Poland!
A rift has opened up between the Germans and the United States over what happened in Kunduz. Given how smug the Germans were about the job they had been doing in the north, th...
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Georg Klein (and the Bundeswehr) on the Carpet
Rajiv Chandrasekaran has been allowed access into ISAF's investigation of what happened in Kunduz: Instead of sending troops to the scene for an assessment of casualties -- as...
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What Abu Muqawama Is Reading This Weekend
I'll be reading LTG (ret.) Dubik's report on building security forces (.pdf). My mother, meanwhile -- who thinks you guys curse too much but once sent me off to war with the i...
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Kunduz: What It Means for NATO
Smart Afghanistan watchers -- like Joshua Foust and Gilles Dorronsoro -- have been worried about Kunduz Province, a province in northern Afghanistan with a signficant Pashtun ...
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Weekly News Roundup: Rare Earth Elements
Rare earth elements are the big theme this week. The New York Times focused much attention to China's ability to corner the market for rare earths. Some have accused it of art...