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U.S. Military Assistance to Lebanon
I had dinner last night with several Levant specialists, including Aram Nerguizian of the CSIS. Tony Cordesman speaks highly of Aram, and their paper on the Lebanese Armed For...
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Events from Around Town: Climate Change and Mild Disasters at the Elliot School
The Elliot School at George Washington University featured a discussion under the superfluous title of Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes, which while e...
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How to report Pakistan (or anywhere) and how to.... not
This story in the Washington Post is good example of how to write a story on Pakistan. By that I mean, go there. If you do, you get to say stuff like this with some authority:...
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About those Scuds...
I don't really have all that much analysis to add to the allegations that Syria has transfered Scud missiles to Hizballah. So let me just contribute two points: Acquiring scud...
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What does extremist recruiting look like?
So, Western forces rock up in your town, kick out the local humourless, dour puritanical loons that were screwing up your future and tell you things will be getting better. A ...
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Extremism - to debate or denounce
The Quilliam Foundation, a pretty influential UK think tank focusing on extremism, is holding a round table discussion on a report it put out last month on Britain's Islam Cha...
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Read This Now: Pulling into Port
This week the Natural Security team is practicing our Da Vinci polyphasic sleep schedules as we close out two papers by Friday, so our posts may be a bit short and sweet this ...
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Woah, hey! Spot the Afghanistan expert!
Gilles Dorronsoro makes his Saturday Night Live debut two minutes in. This is hilarious to the approximately .000012% of the U.S. population who know who Gilles Dorronsoro is....
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Tribal Engagement for Afghanistan?
Spurred on by this paper (.pdf), the gang at Small Wars Journal ran a great workshop a few weeks back examining whether or not tribal engagement would work as a strategy for A...
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This Weekend’s News: Energy and the Nuclear Security Summit
If you are in downtown Washington this morning, you have probably noticed the slight change in tempo as the heads of state and other representatives from 47 nations gather at ...
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Arguing extremism
A lot of people in Western Europe and North America (OK, possibly Australia too) are of the opinion that Islam = death, destruction and terrorism (with some female hating thro...
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Video of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
President Obama announced more than $8 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants this week, sparking much news and debate this week over the wisdom of using nucl...
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Dialogue and aid in Pakistan
Ahmed Rashid (the author of Descent into Chaos and Taliban) sums up on the BBC website what the "strategic dialogue" between Pakistan and the US means for relations between th...
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Our Gift to You: New CNAS Climate Change & Security Working Paper
Yesterday we released the third installment of our Promoting the Dialogue series on how climate change may affect DOD missions, equipment and capabilities. We’ve focused the r...
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Pakistan catch up - What's in a name?
Sometimes, you go on holiday for a bit and you return to find everything has just...gone very wrong! I came back from visiting Ms Henley-on-Thames to find the Islamabad electr...
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Read This Now: Nat Geo’s Special Issue on Water
As the headline states, I recommend to anyone reading this blog that they give a glance to the current special edition of National Geographic on water issues. It highlights wa...
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Breaking the Safe Haven: Minerals in Waziristan
Yesterday’s attack on the U.S. consulate in Peshawar has brought the insurgency in western Pakistan back into the headlines. The consulate serves as the headquarters for ongoi...
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On the Relative Strength of Horses
From Lee Smith's The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations: This is a book about Arab poilitics, society, and culture, which is to say this is a b...
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This Weekend’s News: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Water provided the biggest natural security headline of the weekend, as Ban Ki-moon flew over the Aral Sea – now 90% sea-less – and declared it “clearly one of the worst disas...
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Easter Sunday in Islamabad
Muslim or Christian, what to do on Easter Sunday in Islamabad?..... cricket!!...