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Economics and COIN
A few months ago, my buddy George Feese, a USMA graduate and two-time Iraq veteran with whom I attended both the infantry officer basic course and Ranger School, introduced me...
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Read This Now: "A Post-Copenhagen Pathway" by CSIS’s Sarah Ladislaw
CSIS Senior Fellow and energy über-analyst Sarah Ladislaw released a short policy paper last week, “A Post-Copenhagen Pathway.” (Our colleague Dan covered CSIS’s related event...
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It's Af-Pak competition time!
Since ISAF and the Pakistani forces are not doing so well at countering the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Tehreek-e-Taliban in Pakistan, it seems the two organisations have d...
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Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
We're taking the day off the blog to observe the holiday. Thank you, Dr. King. Photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. courtesy of the National Park Service....
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Events from Around Town: Post Copenhagen Outlook
The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last month received more anticipation and optimism than New Coke, and much like the long forgotten beverage, once it was finally...
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Events from Around Town: Natural Resources – Plunder or Peace
Yesterday I took a virtual trip to check out the U.S. Institute of Peace event, Natural Resources: Plunder or Peace, via live webcast. The event featured Paul Collier, directo...
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Remarks from Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao at the CNAS U.S. India Initiative Launch Event
On January 12, CNAS launched the U.S.-India Initiative at an event in New Delhi co-hosted by the Aspen Institute India. The event featured Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Ra...
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Security or Non-Security?: Agriculture in Afghanistan
Last Thursday, a somewhat motley crew gathered at the State Department to discuss the U.S. government’s agricultural efforts in Afghanistan. The panel featured Secretary of Ag...
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The Value of a Lessons Learned Process
I was on a plane to the Middle East on Sunday evening when I spotted these lines from Leon Panetta's op-ed in the Washington Post: The main lesson from this attack is that, li...
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Approaching Yemen's extremism problem
There was a good article in the Independent today about the situation in Yemen. Keeping in mind the recent discussion on this blog about what to do, two paragraphs particularl...
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This Weekend’s News: A Little Something for Everyone
I didn’t see one major unifying theme in this weekend’s news, but good, in-depth articles on several important topics. Pipeline Politics. First, news of pipeline politics off...
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The Wall Street Journal, and Drones
A few months ago, I allowed my housemate's subscription to the Washington Post to lapse and used my Delta Skymiles to buy a subscription to the Wall Street Journal. I quite li...
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Events from Around Town: Drowning in Conflict
Yesterday I made the short walk from the CNAS office to the Woodrow Wilson Center to catch the Environmental Change and Security Program’s most recent event, Water, Conflict, ...
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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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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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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...