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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: My Thoughts
When I started the rather grandly titled Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue a week ago, I decided that after listening to and reading the thoughts and opinions of the readership, I...
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Boker tov, y'all
Yes, Gov. Rick Perry. The situation Israel faces with Gaza is almost exactly like the one between your state and Mexico. Indeed. Just two things different, really: to mirror t...
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News Roundup: Climate and Security
The Sunday New York Times reported – front-page, above the fold – that climate change is a threat to U.S. national security. John Broder, writing for the Times, reported that ...
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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: Day Seven
This entry addresses the price of failure in Afghanistan, which is something I think gets glossed over my many who believe we should either withdraw or significantly reduce ou...
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In a Melting Arctic, Cautious Optimism
On Tuesday, CNAS Vice President for Natural Security Sharon Burke spoke with NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook where she discussed, among other issues, the Department of Defens...
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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: Day Six
From s British reader: As President Obama and Prime Minister Brown have both stated clearly in recent speeches, our objective for entering Afghanistan in 2001 – the need to de...
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War-Gaming Climate Change on NPR
Sharon Burke, vice president for Natural Security, discusses climate change and national security on NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook. We’ve still been figuring out the scienc...
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One of These Things is (Not?) Like the Others
When I was a kid in the early 70s, one of my favorite Sesame Street features was a fun little musical game called “One of These Things (Is Not Like the Others).” The objective...
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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: Day Five
From reader David Betz: ‘Is the war in Afghanistan in the interests of the United States and its allies?’ No, I don’t think it is. It is useful to observe, however, a key poin...
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Reading Old Magazines – Mathews versus Deudney
Security scholarship underwent a well-known and tumultuous phase of introspection in the late eighties and early nineties, brought on by a fundamental restructuring of the int...
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Is Kandahar Falling?
My friend Erica Gaston -- the pride of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana -- is a lawyer and human rights researcher based in Kabul who has done some excellent work on civilian cas...
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Debating the Cost of Afghanistan
The New York Times has a good round-up of a debate some say, ahem, isn't happening. Although, to be fair to all parties involved, this debate indeed should have happened a lon...
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Natural Security on the Front Page
Sunday’s New York Times reported on the nexus of climate change and national security and the efforts to integrate climate change concerns into U.S. strategic planning. John B...
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Killing Pablo -- er, Ahmed
If "to target" means to capture or kill, this is not necessarily a good idea. WASHINGTON — Fifty Afghans believed to be drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban have been pla...
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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: Abu Aardvark Jumps In
Good observations and questions from Marc Lynch. I find the strategic rationale for escalating the war in Afghanistan extremely thin, and the mismatch between avowed aims and ...
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Bonn Talks the Next Step in the Long Road to Copenhagen
From August 10 – 14, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex Parties under the Kyoto Protocol and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action un...
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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: Day Three
For more on this dialogue, click here. A number of you have asked why this dialogue did not begin with me answering my own questions, which is a fair enough question to ask. I...
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Schmidle on Mehsud
Nick Schmidle -- one of my favorite commentors on Pakistan -- warns us to not get overly excited about the assassination of Baitullah Mehsud and, to my mind, gets his conclusi...
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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: Day Two
For more on the project, click here. Today's submission is one from the "con" side of the dialogue. (I am not, I should note, trying to keep a rigid 50/50 split between pro an...
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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: Day One
For more on the project, click here. There have already been some great submissions. Many thanks to reader "Scott Wedman" for this initial conversation-starter: The war in Afg...