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Weekly News Roundup: Tradeoffs
An interesting theme emerged in natural security news this week: tradeoffs. As any economist will tell you, you can’t have it all. Tradeoffs are inevitable. Energy is no diffe...
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Reading Old Magazines: The New Geography of Conflict
Wars over timber, shrinking water supplies, and constant forward deployment of our military to protect oil and natural gas reserves, this was the vision that Michael Klare, th...
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Day One at the Naval Energy Forum: a Tweeted Recap
Instead of writing a full recap of day one of the Naval Energy Forum, I thought I’d just present the highlights (below) as I Tweeted (Twittered?) them yesterday. You can watch...
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Pakistan Dispatch - "bold, accurate and precise" Lahore under attack
Londonstani woke up this morning to find out Lahore had turned into a war zone. The city, which until earlier this year felt largely insulated from the problems on the wester...
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Using Time Wisely
I was having coffee with a former commander in Afghanistan this morning when I started talking to him about something that has been on my mind for the past week or so. Even if...
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JP 3-24 Released
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Live Tweeting the Naval Energy Forum Today
For those of you who could not get out to the Naval Energy Forum this morning, follow Christine Parthemore on Twitter, @clparthemore, as she live tweets all the action. Also b...
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I am an Environmentalist
“Take your economy killing, phony alarmist, money grabbing, pseudo science and stuff it --- you ugly, arrogant liberal windbag.” That is a portion of an email I received yeste...
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Afghanistan, 1929-1978
I am tiring of this narrative in the U.S. and international media that says Afghanistan is, has always been and will always be a nation at war with itself and its neighbors. W...
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Going “DARPA Hard” on Energy
“Energy has always been an important point in the military,” said Dr. Barbara McQuiston, special assistant for energy at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),...
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Marek Edelman, RIP
Sometimes insurgents are the good guys, and Marek Edelman was one of the good guys. He died a over a week ago, and when I read his obituary in the newspaper after his passing,...
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#42!
When I heard that my erstwhile drinking buddy and fulltime boss, Nate Fick, had been named one of GQ's 50 most powerful people in Washington, I responded with the understated ...
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What I'll Be Doing Tonight
1. This event for Greg Jaffe and David Cloud's wonderful new book. 2. Rugby practice. 3. Rushing home to watch Frontline....
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Counterintuitive Counterinsurgency
As the Obama administration debates whether to stick with the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan, opponents point to that nation's flawed presidential election as a re...
By John A. Nagl & Richard Fontaine
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Eide and UNAMA
Is everyone else similarly enjoying Londonstani's posts from Pakistan? Who knew we would see the day when this blog had a foreign correspondent? I, meanwhile, am in the safety...
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Happy Columbus Day
We won't be posting today, but you can click here to see a new minerals op-ed by Sharon. Happy Columbus Day everyone!...
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Watch V.P. Sharon Burke on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, 9 a.m.
Tune in to C-SPAN this morning at 9 a.m. to watch Sharon Burke, Vice President for Natural Security, on the Washington Journal....
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Pakistan Dispatch - Newsflash: Countdown and Upsurge
Pakistani news channels are reporting that there has been an explosion in Swat, killing over 30 people. The explostion occured in an that is supposed to have been cleared by t...
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Pakistan Dispatch - Just waiting...
Nice story from the Sunday Telegraph which was posted in the comments section (thanks visitor at 12:16pm). The coming Waziristan operation has got to be the most well publicis...
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Pakistan Dispatch - Conspiracy fun
Londonstani spent the evening putting his very rusty Pashtu and Punjabi to the test talking conspiracies. At the end of a long series of conversations it turns out that, basic...