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A Quantitative Analysis Manifesto?
I have written a little about the utility of quantitative analysis in the field of security studies here and here. Last week, though, I finished Wall Street Journal reporter S...
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Song of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
A war machine, like any mechanism, needs fuel in order to run. When that war machine is operating in an environment where the necessary fuels are sparse, a person has two opti...
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Taliban United
We have touched in this blog on developments that seem to suggest the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban groups have started working ever-more closely together. This article by Davi...
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Spotlight on the Hill: Energy Management and Initiatives on Military Installations
Yesterday I made the journey over to the Hill to check out an interesting hearing for the House Armed Services Committee Readiness Subcommittee over energy management and init...
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... Um.. oh yes they did
A just-published news report has prodded Londonstani out of a work-enduced coma: The Christian Science Monitor reports today (24th) that the Pakistani authorities have moved a...
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Woah, did Pakistan just arrest half of the Quetta Shura?
Anand Gopal, formerly of the Wall Street Journal and now with the Christian Science Monitor, has a scoop. Pakistan has arrested nearly half of the Afghanistan Taliban’s leader...
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From the Dept. of You Have to Be Kidding Me
And you people wonder why I never blog or write about Israel and the Palestinians? How the hell am I supposed to make sense of this? The son of a leading Hamas figure, who fam...
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Interagency Effort Targets Environmental Protection and Response along the U.S/Mexico Border
This morning The Washington Post reported that the United States plans to embed American intelligence agents in Mexican law enforcement units along the border city of Ciudad J...
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Read This Now: Niger: The Coup and Uranium
Last week Stratfor issued a cool piece, “Niger: The Coup and Uranium.” This is straight up natural security reading for you, dear readers. You can get the full article in exch...
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Speaking of good memoirs...
...this one, sure to be under the pillow of every USMA cadet from now until infinity, is out in paperback starting today....
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Green Ships
Whether it’s to save money at the gas pump, reduce the impact on the environment, or get the solo ticket in the HOV lane inside the Beltway, people today are buying a lot of h...
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Caption Contest!
Yes, this is in fact World Bank honcho Robert Zoellick. And Shakira. No, this is not photoshopped. Una loba en el armario Tiene ganas de salir (Zoellick: A-ooooh!) Deja que se...
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National Security Human Capital
Gen James Mattis' Keynote Address at the Launch of 'Keeping the Edge: Revitalizing America's Military Officer Corps' - VideoU.S. Joint Forces Commander General James Mattis delivers the keynote address at the launch of the CNAS report “Keeping the Edge: Revitalizing America’s Military Officer Corps...
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Col. Bob Howard
Col. (Ret.) Bob Killebrew just told me that Col. Bob Howard was interred today in Arlington. Who was Bob Howard? Maybe the finest warrior ever produced by the U.S. military....
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Buy This Book. Now.
While home in Tennessee this weekend, I finished (and enjoyed) this book and this book. More on both later. But as soon as I started Matt Gallagher's new memoir, Kaboom, while...
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Living Our Values
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...
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This Weekend’s News: Fun with Nuclear Reactors
I’m going to reach back into last week on this one, as President Obama teed up the topic last Tuesday with his announcement of over $8 billion in loan guarantees for new nucle...
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(Field) Manual Sift: A Newly COIN’d Blog Feature
At the risk of having this new feature labeled a complete cliché, I will save you the overly used George Santayana quote, and simply state that sometimes it is pertinent to lo...
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In Inaugural Review, DHS Says Climate Change Could Shape Security Environment
The Department of Homeland Security released its inaugural Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) last week. According to the report, the QHSR will "Describe more compreh...
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Speaking of CT...
...this video, released by the police in Dubai, of the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is just amazing. Like watching Munich. But for real....