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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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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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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.....
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Data and Natural Security
As countries battle a wave food shortages, trying to ensure supplies and qualm domestic fears, the consequences of food insecurity are growing increasingly vivid these days. P...
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The Lebanese Bernie Madoff
My hosts here in Beirut have written and photographed the best English-language account thus far of Salah Ezzedine, the man being described as the Lebanese Bernie Madoff. Alth...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting
Yemen is becoming one of the most closely watched countries in the Middle East; ranked 18th in Foreign Policy’s “Failed State Index.” And one of the issues that we have been c...
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RIP, Jed
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The Price of a Scoop
Wow. Tunku Varadarajan asks some really good questions about the rescue of Stephen Farrell: That said, let us put moral questions to one side and ask what--now--the duty of Th...
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Reading Old Magazines: “The World’s Resources I—The Lean Years”
The energy shocks of the 1970s caused many Americans to rethink energy in fundamental ways. The October 1973 OPEC oil embargo proved just how heavily U.S. energy supplies reli...
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Rock on! - Pakistani style
Sometimes, Pakistan just rocks. I don't mean the landscape, the people or the food. I don't even mean the awesome contradiction of watching poor parents drop their kids off at...
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The human side of anti-COIN in Afghanistan
If you still don't get why population-centric COIN is a good idea, let the Guardian's Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's report from Kunduz enlighten you. If you live in a country with troop...
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London's 9/11
About an hour ago, Londonstani made a dramatic return to the Abu Muqawama blog. Unfortunately, due to technical issues (ie. his inability to work out the ways of the new websi...
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London calling...
If the AM blog was a soap, this would be the point where a long disappeared character descends the stairs and everyone gasps. In explanation, the bemused character tells every...
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Weekly News Roundup: the Many Ways of Water
This week, water is the big theme in natural security news. From water shortages in Iraq and Kenya, to flooding in Turkey and North Korea—some of it deliberate—the news proved...