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Israel to CENTCOM?
I'm just back from a great conference at Wilton Park in the UK on how we can assess the effect of aid and development on counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. I'll have much more ...
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This Weekend’s News: Furthering Our Understanding of Climate Changes
This weekend’s natural security news seems to have been lighter than it has been in recent weeks. However, one common report appearing in The New York Times and Scientific Ame...
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Why We Can't Have Pretty Things
Ugh. This is a sad day for this blog. As many of you know, I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to free speech. I have always supported an open comments policy on the ...
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Setting Energy and Climate Goals: Air Force Academy
As another leg of my trip to NREL and NORTHCOM a few weeks ago with colleagues Commander Herb Carmen and Will Rogers, we swung by the Air Force Academy to check out their ener...
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The Fully Burdened Cost of Water
A recent article in the February 20, 2010 National Journal, “The Bottled-Water Problem,” (subscription required) explores the logistical challenges that the U.S. military and ...
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Political Economy of the Middle East
So a typical cycle for this blogger is to get annoyed by some criticism, write something snarky and mischievous, and then get all Presbyterian about it and feel guilty for hav...
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(Field) Manual Shift: The Small Wars Manual, WWII and Dr. Mansoor
The Small Wars Manual (SWM), released in 1940 by the United States Marine Corps, in response to the growing engagements in guerilla style wars in Central America and Caribbean...
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Revenge of the Nerds!
Much to my amusement, this post on the utlity of quantitative analysis caused quite a stir in the international relations blogosphere. I don't know if folks in security studie...
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This Weekend’s News: Iran, Energy and Us
Big, big natural security news from The New York Times this weekend. You know how we’ve been sanctioning Iran and discouraging U.S. investment in its energy sector? Well – pre...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A: Six Questions for Deb Amos
Today we have a special interview with NPR's Deborah Amos. Deb is a longtime reader of this blog and an even longer-time student and observer of the Arabic-speaking world. I a...
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Book Review: Global Warring
In a post-Snowpocalyptic world, climate change scientists have found themselves defending their work against climate change skeptics who are using the historic winter weather ...
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Anthony Shadid on Loss and Nostalgia in the Middle East
I just found this via Arabist. This is Anthony Shadid, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middle East correspondent for the New York Times (and the Boston Globe and Washington Post be...
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Abu Muqawama Salutes Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset
The David Brooks love letter to the people of Norway in today's New York Times is worth reading. A true profile in courage from the nation of 4.7m people that has won more med...
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On Biofuels and Their Infrastructure
There is a common refrain (maybe more common in D.C. than elsewhere) that there is a chicken and egg problem with some alternative energy varieties and their infrastructure. T...
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Always with the negative waves, Moriarty ... Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
I have not seen the Hurt Locker. My only opinion of the director, Katherine Bigelow, is based on Point Break, which we can all agree is the greatest movie ever featuring Keanu...
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Reading Lists!
You all know how much I love reading lists. I have been looking over the suggested reading list for the U.S. Army War College (.pdf), and it is mostly excellent. Some may snig...
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The Weekend News: Chu Tour 2010
Last week, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu undertook what I would characterize as an energy diplomacy tour of the Middle East, spending the first two days of his four ...
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Taliban United
We have touched in this blog on developments that seem to suggest the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban groups have started working ever-more closely together. This article by Davi...
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A Quantitative Analysis Manifesto?
I have written a little about the utility of quantitative analysis in the field of security studies here and here. Last week, though, I finished Wall Street Journal reporter S...
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Song of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
A war machine, like any mechanism, needs fuel in order to run. When that war machine is operating in an environment where the necessary fuels are sparse, a person has two opti...