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Um... Asia?
Ross Douthat is upset President Obama did not schedule a visit to Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall: There will be speeches and celebrations to mark this anniv...
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He Who Shall Not Be Fact-Checked
Hey, look, everybody, Seymour Hersh has another article for the New Yorker. In this one, people told him a bunch of stuff, and him not wanting to make people feel bad, he went...
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Boats, Not Bombs: Going Nuclear Without Getting MAD
The future of nuclear power is under debate in a variety of forums, with some proponents arguing that nuclear energy provides a greenhouse-free alternative to coal, and oppone...
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Obama, sign her up!
I saw this video while following the Guardian's minute-by-minute report on Manchester United and Chelsea. However many troops the president authorizes for Afghanistan, I want ...
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Two on the Afghanistan Debate
Two things on Afghanistan worth working through this weekend. The first is Spencer's long and good feature on the Afghanistan debate here in Washington, and the second is a sp...
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The Return
The New York Times has an op-ed today that both my boss and my mother will send to me if I am not quick enough to blog it. WASHED onto the shores of his island home, after 10 ...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Hearts and Minds
Posting will be sparse over the next few days as Londonstani is playing host to the potential future Mrs. Londonstani (who is presently just known as Ms. Henley-on-Thames). So...
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Book Club: A Special Abu Muqawama Interview with David Ucko
David Ucko is a friend of the blog and the author of a new book on the efforts made by the U.S. military to transform itself to meet the operational challenges of Iraq and Afg...
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Weekly News Roundup: Water Security
Countries all over the world are beginning to feel the impacts of water security in its many forms. Yemen has become a prime example of what happens when water mismanagement, ...
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Look, Ron! I'm riding a furry tractor!
I'll be highlighting some very thought-provoking alternatives to population-centric counterinsurgency in Afghanistan over the next few days. But first, I want to ask a questio...
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While you weren't looking...
Aside from being a great Caitlin Cary album, that phrase is as good a way as any to break the news that Saudi Arabia is now bombing Yemen. The Saudi air force has bombed stro...
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Finishing Firefights
My friend Owen West sent me this great video showing some good combat footage from his father that helps to explain how difficult it is to close with and engage the enemy in A...
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Holy cow...
Not good. That sniper at Bragg in 1995 only killed one, I think: FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- The U.S. Army has closed its massive Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, amid reports that...
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Reading Old Magazines: Mineral Myths
My colleague Mike pointed me in the direction of this post by Stephen Walt, which considers strategic minerals on a Halloween list of “overblown threats, dubious nightmares, a...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The blame game
A few people have been wondering about what Pakistanis make of the recent attacks that have taken place all around the north of the country. Londonstani has been travelling ar...
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Dan Brown? Really?
No wonder we have no peace in the Middle East. George Mitchell spends all his time with Hillary Clinton discussing the plotlines of Dan Brown novels while Jeff Feltman stares ...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The lesser spotted last gasp
It's probably not even worth counting how many times one side of a conflict has portrayed the increasing violence of its foes as a "last gasp". The Taliban in Afghanistan has ...
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And now, from our friends in the academy...
The Journal of Strategic Studies has a special edition completely devoted to counterinsurgency and related issues....
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Dealing with the Karzais...
What happens when the interests of the host nation government don't line up with the interests of the counterinsurgent force is famously absent from FM 3-24. Blog favorites Bi...
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The Cost of Civilians at War
I was talking on Friday night with a friend of mine who works on Afghanistan policy, and we began discussing the trickle (or "surge") of civilians into southern and eastern Af...