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More Fight – Less…Water
“If we don't have water, then we don't have the ability to perform,” said Tad Davis, the U.S. Army's deputy assistant secretary for environment, safety and occupational health...
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White Roofs for a Red Earth? The Geoengineering Debate
Today the New York Times reported on a growing trend in housing construction: the decision to use lighter-hued materials as opposed to darker, traditional counterparts such as...
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Reading Old Magazines: Two Times
Reading Old Magazines this week will be short and sweet: a brief tale of two seemingly unremarkable Time magazine articles that appear to have had undue influence on two membe...
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AM on Parade
In case you haven't gotten your fill of the incomparable Abu Muqawama, fear not! You can check him out in his interview with Charlie Rose and on the World Politics Review pod...
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Abu Muqawama on Vacation
A month in Afghanistan was not enough of a break from the sweatshop Nate and John are running (just three blocks away from the White House!), so I am off for a week's vacation...
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Q&A with Stan McChrystal
Who wants to watch me run my cakehole on Charlie Rose when you can hear it from McChrystal instead? You have said that in Afghanistan protecting the population is the top prio...
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Space + Mining = Sci Fi Natural Security
Today’s natural security movie is Moon, from director Duncan Jones. The natural security element of the movie lies only in its brief opening, which establishes the premise tha...
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Abu Muqawama on Charlie Rose TONIGHT
I just filmed a long interview with Charlie Rose for tonight's show. I'll be talking strategy in Afghanistan and sharing observations from my trip. I do not think I have ever ...
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Surfing Lebanon
Our friends at Blogging the Casbah have an amusing post on surfing in Lebanon. These look like surprisingly good waves. I say surprising because the surf in Lebanon is not gen...
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At Senate Hearing on Climate Change and National Security, a Witness’s Perspective
On Tuesday, July 21st, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called a hearing on the national security implications of climate change. Arguably, it should have been the Senat...
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Killing the F-22
From today's Washington Post: He bluntly warned Lockheed Martin that he would slice funding for the more modern F-35 jet if the contracting giant lobbied to build more F-22s. ...
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Causin' more Family Feuds than Richard Dawson
I got talked into playing a sevens tournament tomorrow, so posting will be light over the weekend. I came across this bit o' genius via Spencer today, though, and ... well, it...
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Wanat: The Unasked Questions (updated)
The questions into what happened at Wanat a year ago have gathered pace thanks to the blogging of my colleague Tom Ricks and a new study for the Combat Studies Institute. I re...
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The Limits of Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
Steve Biddle of the CFR has long been a friend and mentor, and I have often felt that his central criticism of U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine -- first raised, to my knowledge...
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Weekly News Roundup: Spotlight on the U.S Army
Big news started early in the week for the U.S. Army on Monday, when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced his plan to grow the branch by 22,000 troops to a total standi...
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On Killing Civilians
While in Afghanistan over the past month, I found myself reading a lot of U.S. Civil War history. Despite the fact that I am from Chattanooga, Tennessee, I have never really b...
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At Climate Change Hearing, Skirting the Nuclear Proliferation Issue
“Surely it has to frustrate you coming from where you come from that this country is not embarking on a massive project and working with China and India to do the same – nucle...
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Back from Afghanistan
Greetings, readers. I apologize for being out of the loop for these past four weeks. About five weeks ago, I was asked by General McChrystal to be part of a small team of scho...
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Spotlight on the Hill: Vice President Sharon Burke Testifies on Climate Change and National Security
Yesterday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on “Climate Change and Global Security: Challenges, Threats, and Diplomatic Opportunities.” (CNAS Veep and Nat...
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News Alert: Vice President for Natural Security Sharon Burke Testifies Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee
The Natural Security Blog will be posting our thoughts on Sharon Burke's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee shortly. As she said in her opening statement,...