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2010 Wish List
Most everyone else has published a wish list for 2010. Why shouldn’t we? Some on this list are more realistic than others, of course. The fun part of it is that we here at CN...
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The Most Important Thing You'll Read on Afghanistan This Month
This summer, as Gen. McChrystal took command in Afghanistan, it became clear to both him and his intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Mike Flynn, that the way we gather and process i...
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This Weekend’s News: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
This long holiday weekend, the plethora of commentary on the state of the economy at the beginning of 2010, dissections of the past and projections for the future all indirect...
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Yemen and al-Qaeda - Different place, same mistakes?
Nearly two years ago, Londonstani wrote his first post for this blog. It was based around an interview Londonstani conducted near one of the Palestinian camps in Lebanon with ...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The distorted lens
As militant violence continues to claim lives throughout Pakistan, the job of finding answers is made impossible by the near-total inability of public opinion to arrive at som...
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Photo of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on New Year's Eve
A million thanks to Mike McCarthy and Amanda Hahnel, our two fabulous interns who provided you with news and analysis on this blog this fall. You're likely to still see a fe...
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Top 5 Natural Security Posts of 2009
Lithium: Not Just A Nirvana Song 5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Gregory Johnsen Beware of Climate Change Denialism: You’re the Target 5 Questions with Someone Interesti...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Watch this space
The BBC reports that thousands of people turned up for the funerals of victims of the suicide attack on Shia worshippers in Karachi. ...Keep watching this space. UPDATE: AFP r...
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Afghanistan Policy Debate in the Boston Review
Nir Rosen and I had breakfast this morning and caught up over coffee and eggs, but that hasn't stopped us from going at each other in this month's Boston Review, which feature...
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Book Review: The Water Engine
David Mamet's 1977 play The Water Engine could have taken many forms. Mamet could have taken his basic premise—guy invents engine that runs on water—and easily turned it into ...
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Catching Up
I have not been posting much recently, enjoying my retirement from daily blogging, but Richard Fontaine and I got name-checked in the lead editorial from today's Washington Po...
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This Weekend’s News: Good News, Bad News
Is it just me, or since Copenhagen are we seeing more and more reports on non-success stories (for lack of a better term) on clean energy and climate change? The past year pro...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Lighting the sectarian bonfire in Karachi
A suicide bomber killed around 30 people in Karachi today during traditional Shia Muharram ceremonies. It's not clear at this point whether the attack was part of Karachi's lo...
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Son of Tito, Leatherneck
Nick Francona -- U.S. Marine, Penn graduate and all-around American Hero -- emailed me to wish me a Merry Christmas and to say he gave me a shout out on ESPN.com. Nick's story...
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Merry Christmas, Gang
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We're on a Break
We bloggers will be on a break starting today, but will return next week. Look for our weekend review, natural security news, our 2010 wish list, and more starting Monday. H...
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Pakistan News Update - US conducted raids into FATA
US Special Forces have conducted multiple raids into Pakistani territory, local daily The Nation reported today in a front-page article that was basically just quoting an earl...
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Book Review: The End of Food
One of the great things about working in a new program area like Natural Security is that we’re constantly reassessing how to best address our research area. Recently, the imp...
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This Weekend's News: A Winter Wonderland...and Copenhagen
The big story for many of us this weekend was, of course, the monster blizzard that slammed the East Coast on Friday night, continuing through Sunday, stranding thousands duri...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Sufis - Pakistan's Saviours?
On December 4, four militants stormed a mosque used extensively by Pakistan Army personnel and killed 35 people who had gathered for Friday prayers. Among the victims were 17 ...