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How World-Class Journalism Happens
You guys know how much I hate it when journalists become the story, but here I make an exception. This account of how C.J. Chivers and his "shooter", Tyler Hicks, got the stor...
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I expect to get hit with a cyanide-tipped umbrella anyday now...
Dave and I now have the head of the CIA angry with us: LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- U.S. airstrikes aimed at al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan have been "very effective," wit...
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Innes on Kilcullen
My friend and occasional intellectual sparring partner, Mike Innes, weighs in on David Kilcullen's The Accidental Guerrilla in an extended review....
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Rid and Exum at SAIS: RSVP Now
Thomas Rid is one of my favorite scholars, so I was excited when he asked me to help introduce his new book. Expect a free-flowing conversation followed by a Q&A.The Cente...
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Mullen on Drones
Pete Singer sent me a link to the Admiral Mullen's speech at Brookings, and I notice the quote I excerpted in yesterday's post was actually part of a larger quote relating to ...
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Schmidle on Sharif
I will be at a CNAS "off-site" meeting this afternoon, so you crazy kids are on your own. While wasting time this afternoon, though, check out Nick Schmidle on Nawaz Sharif in...
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Exclusive: JSOC Killed Benazir Bhutto! Uh...
Seymour Hersh, who has publicly distanced himself from the wack-job conspiracy theory -- promulgated by al-Manar and NewTV in Lebanon -- that the United States was behind the ...
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Rumsfeld's Peers on Rumsfeld
You guys have all read this Robert Draper piece on Rumsfeld, right? Just checking....
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An Insurgency Ends
Just arrived back at the desk after a weekend away and discovered the over 200 unread email messages waiting for me. Apologies to anyone trying to get in touch with me -- it m...
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What Happens After COIN? The Emerging Sri Lanka Case
AM's already beaten me to the punch. (Not that I blame him, I have been absent. My org's firewall now blocks anything with the word "blog" in the URL, so I can't access there,...
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Guerrilla Warfare! With Gorrilas?
Ha! This quote made my day, even if I have no idea what Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) is talking about here:I’m going to be the sneaky little guy that pops up from behind the bush an...
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Yes.
From the Brookings Institute today:“We cannot succeed in Afghanistan or anywhere else, but let’s talk specifically about Afghanistan, by killing Afghan civilians,” Admiral Mul...
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Reidel on the Rooskies, the Afghans and Us
What a coup for West Point's CTC Sentinel (.pdf) in getting Bruce Reidel -- the guy President Obama put in charge of reviewing his "Af-Pak" strategy -- to write a piece on the...
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Surging and Awakening
In the geekish circles in which I run, this Dexter Filkins review of The Gamble in The New Republic this week has generated some heated opinions. On the one hand, reading this...
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Special Abu Muqawama Interview: P.W. Singer
Gang, I am in East Tennessee this weekend for a wedding, so to keep the readership amused, I give you Peter Singer from the Brookings Institute. Pete is the author of the exce...
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9 out of 10 Operators Agree: "The Pope" is the Right Man for the Job
One of the most experienced Afghanistan hands I know had this to say about General McChrystal in an email to me yesterday:All the heavy breathing about him being A Killer Man ...
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Talkin' Afghanistan
I just taped an episode of To The Point with David Ignatius, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), John Mueller, and some Canadian journalist who talked the most sense of any of us. You s...
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Counterinsurgency Reading List Updated
For the first time in more than a year, I have updated our famous Counterinsurgency Reading List. Gone is the section on political Islam and Islamist violence, while added are...
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Twofer
If there is a reason to really lament the demise of U.S. newspaper reporting, it is on days like this when we have C.J. Chivers reporting from Afghanistan for the New York Tim...
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FT Interview with Naim Qassem
This interview the Financial Times conducted with Hizballah deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem is well worth your time. (The full transcript is here.) On the hilarious side,...