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From the Dept. of Brilliant Ideas
Spencer Ackerman and Matthew Yglesias have an idea as to who should headline the CNAS June conference: Vo Nguyen Giap. I, for one, think this would be a brilliant idea. Our tw...
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Cold (Fusion) War: The Saint
Scientists have come up with many wacky ideas in the search for new forms of energy. The Department of Energy has even decided to throw money at people with off-the-wall ideas...
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Crisis? What Crisis?
My friends Laura Rozen and Michael Cohen are way off base if they think the report written by Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn on the failure of military intelligence in Afghanistan co...
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Yemen's coming disaster
The Nigerian Islamist who allegedly attempted to detonate a bomb on a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has brought Yemen once again into the spotlig...
By Andrew M. Exum & Richard Fontaine
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Pakistan's New Year resolutions
The News on Sunday newspaper printed a list of "obsessions" Pakistan could do without in 2010. It's sort of like a list of New Year resolutions. But away from politics (as muc...
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Two more things you should read on Afghanistan
The thought-provoking (Stewart) and the sublime (Bleuer). With respect to the latter and by my own count, I have at times been guilty of #9, #14, #17, #21 and #26. With respec...
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2010 Wish List
Most everyone else has published a wish list for 2010. Why shouldn’t we? Some on this list are more realistic than others, of course. The fun part of it is that we here at CN...
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The Most Important Thing You'll Read on Afghanistan This Month
This summer, as Gen. McChrystal took command in Afghanistan, it became clear to both him and his intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Mike Flynn, that the way we gather and process i...
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This Weekend’s News: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
This long holiday weekend, the plethora of commentary on the state of the economy at the beginning of 2010, dissections of the past and projections for the future all indirect...
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Yemen and al-Qaeda - Different place, same mistakes?
Nearly two years ago, Londonstani wrote his first post for this blog. It was based around an interview Londonstani conducted near one of the Palestinian camps in Lebanon with ...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The distorted lens
As militant violence continues to claim lives throughout Pakistan, the job of finding answers is made impossible by the near-total inability of public opinion to arrive at som...
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Photo of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on New Year's Eve
A million thanks to Mike McCarthy and Amanda Hahnel, our two fabulous interns who provided you with news and analysis on this blog this fall. You're likely to still see a few ...
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Top 5 Natural Security Posts of 2009
Lithium: Not Just A Nirvana Song 5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Gregory Johnsen Beware of Climate Change Denialism: You’re the Target 5 Questions with Someone Interesti...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Watch this space
The BBC reports that thousands of people turned up for the funerals of victims of the suicide attack on Shia worshippers in Karachi. ...Keep watching this space. UPDATE: AFP r...
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Afghanistan Policy Debate in the Boston Review
Nir Rosen and I had breakfast this morning and caught up over coffee and eggs, but that hasn't stopped us from going at each other in this month's Boston Review, which feature...
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Book Review: The Water Engine
David Mamet's 1977 play The Water Engine could have taken many forms. Mamet could have taken his basic premise—guy invents engine that runs on water—and easily turned it into ...
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Catching Up
I have not been posting much recently, enjoying my retirement from daily blogging, but Richard Fontaine and I got name-checked in the lead editorial from today's Washington Po...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Lighting the sectarian bonfire in Karachi
A suicide bomber killed around 30 people in Karachi today during traditional Shia Muharram ceremonies. It's not clear at this point whether the attack was part of Karachi's lo...
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This Weekend’s News: Good News, Bad News
Is it just me, or since Copenhagen are we seeing more and more reports on non-success stories (for lack of a better term) on clean energy and climate change? The past year pro...
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Son of Tito, Leatherneck
Nick Francona -- U.S. Marine, Penn graduate and all-around American Hero -- emailed me to wish me a Merry Christmas and to say he gave me a shout out on ESPN.com. Nick's story...