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McHugh for the Army
I have been in a meeting for the past hour and a half and returned to read my comments and discover that John McHugh, a Republican congressman from upstate New York, will be t...
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Intern Nick Strikes Again
Well, CNAS loses a great intern, but the Naval Postgraduate School gains a new research assistant. Nick Masellis has left CNAS, but he has another contribution on SWJ:...when ...
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Metrics that Matter
NYT:In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General McChrystal said the measure of American and allied effectiveness would be “the number of Afghans shielded ...
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Threat of the Day
Okay, you all know I make a point of never blogging about Israel and the Palestinian Territories, but this paragraph from Akiva Eldar, tongue firmly in cheek, made me laugh to...
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Afghanistan: the Good and the Bad
Goodness gracious, what is going on my country? My co-religionists are assassinating people in their churches and the U.S. and Canadian governments, by the end of today, will ...
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Drone Strikes: The Pushback
A clutch of anonymous intelligence and military officials -- no doubt stung by the degree to which the efficacy of drone attacks in Pakistan has been questioned of late -- hav...
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Reminder: Rid, Exum and War 2.0 at SAIS on Monday
The Center for Transatlantic Relationsat the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University Invites you to a Praeger/PSI book launch andLunch...
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Sois belle et vote lis le FT
The Financial Times has really been devoting a lot of time to Lebanon in advance of next weekend's elections -- more so than any other Western English-language newspaper I fol...
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How We Know It's Getting Worse in Pakistan
The new report on Afghanistan and Pakistan that I helped put together here at CNAS will have an entire section devoted to metrics for following the President's strategy in Afg...
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Ghaith in the Mog
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, a native of Baghdad, watched his hometown spiral downward into bloody chaos from 2003 until 2007. But when he visited Mogadishu, even he was unprepared for ...
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Dogs and cats, living together. Mass hysteria!
Galrahn blogs on Kilcullen. What's next, me blogging on naval tactics? (Hey, I am reading Brodie right now.)...
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Small Wars Journal is to Rolling Stone as Abu Muqawama is to Vice
So are we bitter that our boss John Nagl nominated Small Wars Journal to Rolling Stone's "Hot List" instead of us? Naw. I'm pretty sure no one under 40 years of age reads Roll...
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Understanding the Surge in Iraq and What's Ahead
CNAS Senior Fellow Tom Ricks commented on the surge in Iraq and described what is ahead for American troops at an event hosted by the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Ricks ...
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Black Rangers
I missed this book review from the Sunday Washington Times on the U.S. Army's all-black Ranger unit during the Korean War. More on the unit can be found here....
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Abu Muqawama is ...
... still in shock Manchester United couldn't put one friggin' goal past Barcelona's patchwork defense....
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POMED on Egypt
Pity the Project on Middle East Democracy, a well-meaning group of young(ish) scholars and advocates dedicated to pressing U.S. policy in the Middle East to support for democr...
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Gates: The Taliban Have the Mo
My man Yochi Dreazen (C '99) has just been cold interviewin' the Secretary of Defense lately. Here is the SecDef on weapons cuts, and here he is on Afghanistan.American public...
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Lunch with Casey
I made only my second trip to the Pentagon today to have lunch with General George Casey and about seven other defense policy wonks and a few journalists. I was probably the y...
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Are we not nerdy enough?
Dave Kasten, a longtime reader of this blog, is asking over at Attackerman whether or not we have lost our academic focus.But I'm not sure that the same hunger exists for read...
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"You certainly do remind me of Adolf Hitler"
I have a rule. As soon as someone invokes Nazi Germany to bolster their argument about anything (not related to genocide, of course), I stop reading. So if David Brooks said a...