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Writing, Writing...
I'll be away from the blog today....
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A little different than I remembered it in '03...
Well, this looks ... awful....
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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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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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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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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...
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The Cloak, Dagger, and Climate Science
Back in September we highlighted the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) plan to launch a new agency apparatus dedicated to studying the implications of climate change on U.S....
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Where "rural" is too "urban"
When passing through Zabul Province this past summer, I got a brief from a smart U.S. Army officer with whom I had served in the 10th Mountain Division. Over the course of the...
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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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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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In Afghanistan, Training Up Is Hard To Do
October 24, 2009 - CNAS President John Nagl discusses the importance of training the Afghan security force with National Journal. "If we are going to depart Afghanistan, the o...
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The Predator War
CNAS Fellow Andrew Exum discusses the risks of using predator drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan in a report by Jane Mayer of The New Yorker. "We're not saying drones are not ...
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Crashing
While it is true I am still heartbroken from this weekend's loss, I am also crashing on a writing assignment and thus not posting much today. I have a lot of links I am going ...
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“Strategic” or “Critical?” Actually, Just Confusing
One of my recent posts mildly chastised an author for not strictly defining the difference between “strategic” and “critical” minerals. But as I looked further into language a...
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Trading Up in the Taiwan Strait
In the year and a half since President Ma Ying-jeou took office in Taipei, the world has witnessed an unprecedented rapprochement between China and Taiwan. The two sides have ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Pakistan Dispatch: Bombs and see-saws
Newspapers reported today that the F8 incident reported with much ensuing panic yesterday was a hoax. However, it wasn't long before the small sense of relief was overshadowed...
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Afghanistan, Big and Small
Thom is probably right that the broad support a counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan enjoys among NATO defense ministers adds a little pressure on the president and his a...