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Weekly News Roundup: Hungry for Security
Food was on the mind this week, with reports from several continents on how issues of agriculture and land tenure impact security. Wired’s Danger Room continues to follow U.S....
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Abu Muqawama is currently more angry at the world than Jeanie Bueller
I just participated in the most asinine interview ever on The Takeaway, so if you were unfortunate enough to have been listening, I apologize. (The very intelligent) Paul Hugh...
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Dalton Fury ... On Killing
Hey, what's this! Abu Muqawama is proud to host some guest commentary from none other than Dalton Fury on a subject we tend to avoid in the happy-happy, play-well-with-others ...
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Mehsud Dead?
My thoughts on drone strikes substituting for a strategy in Pakistan aside, the death of Baitullah Mehsud would be a good thing. But it's my sense that many in Pakistan consid...
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So it's not just this blog's readers who are pessimistic and angry about Afghanistan?
I must say, the Congress is exactly right to be demanding this: WASHINGTON — As the American military comes to full strength in the Afghan buildup, the Obama administration ...
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Nope
No sooner had I finished writing the below blog post on U.S. interests in Afghanistan and the risks of our counterinsurgency strategy than I read Andrew Bacevich's most recent...
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“Well, Hamid, at least I’m only ruining Kandahar. You’re ruining the whole country.”
"When you come to power your eyes go blind, your ears go deaf and you don’t know anything anymore." If anyone at work is wandering why I am late today, it is because I have be...
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Ready for the Energy Revolution? NAS Says Yes...Sort Of
The good news is that there is plenty of energy in the United States: supplies of sunlight, wind, geothermal, nuclear, and fossil fuels dramatically outstrip demand. The bad n...
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War and Law
The excellent debate between Avishai Margalit, Michael Walzer, Amos Yadlin and several others on Israel and the laws of war continues through the pages of the New York Review ...
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Events from Around Town: Stimson Looks at Water in AfPak
The Stimson Center held an event yesterday called “Water and Peace in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” at which Dr. Daanish Mustafa, a geographer at King's College, London, outlined...
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Join us on Facebook for updates and to connect to other natural security-minded citizens. You can also follow the Natural Security Bloggers on Twitter: @clparthemore, @wmroger...
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Reading Old Magazines: “Our Future Dependence on Foreign Minerals”
We turn to critical minerals for this week’s Reading Old Magazines, with the May 1952 article “Our Future Dependence on Foreign Minerals” by Dr. Alan M. Bateman (pdf), then a ...
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White Roofs, Part II
After reporting yesterday on the geoengineering aspect of white roof construction, I thought I’d write to Felicity Barringer, the author of the New York Times piece that start...
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Weekly News Roundup: Fun with Geoengineering
This week’s roundup will provide to you with plenty of conversation starters for your weekend parties, with the latest news on the often-controversial topic of geoengineering ...
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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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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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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...