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Just How Vulnerable is DoD's Grid Security? Not Quite Sure, Says GAO
Last week I covered an event at the Wilson Center where Dr. Amory Lovins, a member of the Defense Science Board’s Task Force on DoD Energy Strategy, gave a stark presentation ...
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All I want for Christmas is...
...a census and land registry for Afghanistan. This is one reason why: President Obama is still working hard to figure out the next steps in the very difficult war in Afghanis...
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On Martial Virtue ... and Selling Jon Krakauer's Crappy New Book
A few months ago, I was asked to review Jon Krakauer's new book by the Washington Post, and I must admit to having been excited. Having grown up a pretty serious rock climber,...
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Movie Review: There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood, a 2007 film very loosely based on the 1927 Upton Sinclair book Oil!, is really only partly about oil. At its core, it's a story of a man who absolutely ha...
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Pakistan Dispatch: State of the Nation
Nine days is a long time in Pakistan these days. Since Londonstani went off on his (mostly) road trip around Pakistan a lot has happened. Not much of it has been good. Several...
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This has nothing to do with counterinsurgency, but...
Well, as we discussed yesterday, there are great books doomed to become (potentially) awful movies starring Matt Damon. But apparently there are also great books which can bec...
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Photo of the Week: Because No One Wants to Read Too Much on Fridays
This photo shows the solar array at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, one of several energy projects we checked out this week while we're here at work on a few CNAS natural sec...
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Weekly News Roundup: Thank You, Madame Chairwoman
This week the Senate’s version of the climate bill (pdf) received a series of hearings in the Committee on Environment and Public Works. The bill (S. 1733, commonly known as t...
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Writing, Writing...
I'll be away from the blog today....
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Events from Around Town: Strategic Energy Opportunities for the Department of Defense
Yesterday the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program hosted the Army Environmental Policy Institute’s 31st sustainability lecture on the Department ...
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A little different than I remembered it in '03...
Well, this looks ... awful....
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Wanted: Hebrew Reader
So there's this book by Moshe "Chiko" Tamir that I cannot read. It's an untranslated memoir about his service as an Israeli officer in southern Lebanon that is basically the I...
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From the Dept. of Poorly Chosen Historical Analogies
I interrupt my blogging hiatus to bring you the following report. Christopher Buckley, one of my favorite authors, read Matthew Hoh's letter and is now calling for us to withd...
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Cliff Lee!!!
That's all I have to say right now. Update: I vote Susan Finkelstein for Alumna of the Year....
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COIN at the Political Level
Yesterday, I wrote the following in an op-ed which ran in the Daily Beast: The Obama adminstration has, I believe, some leverage at the moment, which it could use to affect th...
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Putting Matthew Hoh in Context ... and Asking Hard Questions of the Washington Post
A great American, sure, but a reader noticed this important comment posted by "gadstian" on the Washington Post's website at 11:50 yesterday morning. I am very disturbed by th...
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Spotlight on the Hill: the Senate Climate Bill
As we near the December conference in Copenhagen, we are starting to see a flurry of activity around climate change in the United States. Yesterday, the Senate began to debate...
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The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read This Week
Why, you ask? Because if this is true, and if the CIA is empowering Ahmed Wali Karzai at the same time in which NATO/ISAF is saying abusive local power-brokers are a threat to...
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If we've lost The Onion...
...have we lost America? (Warning: clicking on this link will lead you to genius.)...
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Two Things That Annoy Me
1. Yes, it might be true that NATO and Afghan troops outnumber insurgents 12-1. This is as irrelevant a statistic in guerrilla warfare as enemy body count. The only things wor...