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Reading Old Magazines: “The World’s Resources I—The Lean Years”
The energy shocks of the 1970s caused many Americans to rethink energy in fundamental ways. The October 1973 OPEC oil embargo proved just how heavily U.S. energy supplies reli...
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Rock on! - Pakistani style
Sometimes, Pakistan just rocks. I don't mean the landscape, the people or the food. I don't even mean the awesome contradiction of watching poor parents drop their kids off at...
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The human side of anti-COIN in Afghanistan
If you still don't get why population-centric COIN is a good idea, let the Guardian's Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's report from Kunduz enlighten you. If you live in a country with troop...
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London's 9/11
About an hour ago, Londonstani made a dramatic return to the Abu Muqawama blog. Unfortunately, due to technical issues (ie. his inability to work out the ways of the new websi...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...