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Losing Traditions in a Changing Climate
With the opening of the Arctic and alternating droughts and floods across Africa, it may not seem like recent reports of poor hop and grape yields are major security concerns....
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Contrary to popular belief...
Eli Lake and others are now reporting a resource request for Afghanistan will come on Friday, while Spencer Ackerman is at the Marine Corps University's COIN Leadership Confer...
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UK Strategy and Defense Policy: Where Should It Go?
It has not escaped the British Ministry of Defense -- excuse me, Ministry of Defence -- that we colonists have a rather more lively public debate on our defense policy than do...
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Two Funny Things
1. How great was Qaddafi today? I mean, classic. The Guardian has the best re-cap: He tore up a copy of the UN charter in front of startled delegates, accused the security cou...
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Natural Security by Another Definition
Today we wanted to just flag another new report out called “Natural Security,” by Washington, D.C.-based conservation group American Rivers. Obviously the group has a differen...
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Petraeus on COIN, CT and Afghanistan
Petraeus in the Times of London. Countering terrorists and extremism requires more than a conventional military approach. Military operations enable you to clear areas of ext...
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The Men vs. The Mission
Population-centric counterinsurgency puts soldiers lives at risk. That's the truth. Members of Congress have voiced concern about the increase in U.S. deaths, one of the facto...
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Debating Afghanistan
On the one hand, I am really glad the Obama Administration is debating a wide variety of alternatives in Afghanistan. While most of us were operating under the assumption that...
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Capability + Intent = Threat
Hahahaha, Lt. Col. W. Thomas Smith, Jr... This guy never fails to amuse me. He's still cranky some journalists in Beirut outed him as a fabulist, ending his gig with the Natio...
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Reading Old Magazines: "Power, Mobility, and the Law of the Sea”
As Christine promised in yesterday’s post on the new Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force – which recommends that the United States ratify the U.N. Convention on the Law of the...
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Joining Forces, Requesting Forces, etc.
I got the press release for this new report from Kim and Fred Kagan on force requirements for Afghanistan and started laughing: "Dr. Kimberly Kagan of the Institute for the St...
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In Praise of Sobriety
And you guys wonder why I admire Steve Biddle? Whereas I fire off 200-word blog posts, Steve doesn't so much as pour his cup of coffee in the morning without doing a thoughtfu...
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Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force: Natural Security in Action
In June of this year, President Obama launched an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, a group of 24 federal agency representatives led by the Council on Environmental Quality...
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How I Spent My Summer
Pages 2-1 (9) to 2-22 (30) of this .pdf. This was written with about a dozen talented and good-natured co-authors (and the world's most intense lead author) who put up with my...
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Eid Mubarak!
Ramadan is officially over and the Muslim world is about to give thanks after a month of contemplation, temperance and the chance to be granted God's forgiveness. Well actuall...
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When Taliban reporting goes wrong...
The real subject of this post is communication, and when it all goes wrong. Londonstani has spent most of the day confused by an interview in the Independent with Lieutenant-G...
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Weekly News Roundup: Changing Environments, Missions
This week, several Natural Security news items explored the operational and strategic challenges that the U.S. military will face as climate change progresses. Much attention ...
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A 'Better War' in Afghanistan
CNAS President Dr. John Nagl testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, September 16, 2009, at 2:30pm, in Room 419 of the Dirksen Senate Office Buildin...
By John A. Nagl
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Other threats from within
Threats to public safety and national security in the UK come from a variety of sources; and not all of them are Islamic. We have seen the newly energised extreme right wing o...
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RIP Keith
Possibly the coolest guy on British TV.. ever And even when it goes wrong.....