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Movie Review: Avatar
At the risk of a pop culture flogging, I thought that someone over at the Natural Security blog should put out some commentary on the seemingly messianic piece of 3D cinema kn...
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A CT Reading List? [Open Thread]
Okay, you all know about the famous Abu Muqawama Counterinsurgency Reading List. But a reader wrote in asking whether or not we might consider posting a reading list on counte...
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Marja Analysis (Updated)
I'm at work, unable to endure watching the rest of France v. Ireland after this epic collapse. It's a good time to read some of the analysis of the ongoing offensive in Marja,...
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Charlie Wilson, RIP
What a life....
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Book Review: To Hellholes and Back
I got this book for my brother Chris, a lover of diving and travel humor, for Christmas after a friend recommended it on Facebook. Having not read it and purchased it for titl...
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From the Dept. of We All Make Mistakes
A few days ago I posted on this New York Times article about the memoirs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was happy to see memoirist friends like Craig and Nate get so...
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The Need for Research (Or, Why You Should Not Write Newspaper Columns While High on Qat)
Tom Friedman's column today about how we can build more schools and defeat terrorism is one of those things that sounds right but probably isn't. Leave aside the fact that Uma...
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Read This Now: Land Grab? The Race for the World’s Farmlands
Our colleagues in the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars recently released a comprehensive report, Land Grab? The Race for the World’s Farmla...
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NOAAing Your Climate Science
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced yesterday that it would reorganize its climate services so it can provide Americans with more information ...
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To be fair, "fog of war" was suggested by the editors...
Elizabeth Bumiller, you are in the penalty box of the English language. Describing the many great memoirs that have been written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, she wr...
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This Weekend's News: Big Natural Security Elections – Ukraine Thinks Gas while Venezuela Explores Geoengineering
The biggest natural security news through the long D.C. snowpocalypse weekend involved coverage of two energy-important elections, one now held and the other to come later thi...
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Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World - Transcript
Download the transcript from the January 26 event on the contested commons - sea, air, space, and cyberspace - including remarks from: Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary R...
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Abu Muqawama on Twitter
Now that I am no longer blogging on a daily basis, the best way to see what has caught my eye in a given day is by following this blog's Twitter feed. I know it can be an anno...
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Intelligence Assessments & Climate Change: 2009 v. 2010
I thought it would be super fun to spend a Wednesday night comparing the intelligence community’s threat assessment language on climate change from last year and this year (pd...
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In Praise of Quants
A week ago, I spent some time on the blog whining about Quants and their work on counterinsurgency. Since then, two scholars -- distinguished veterans of the war in Iraq -- ha...
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Natural Security in Yesterday’s SASC Hearing
Yesterday was full of fun with the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the FY2011 budget. Here are the natural security-related exchanges from the transcript, beginning...
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In Budget, Emphasis on Investments in Energy Innovation
The President released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 budget yesterday alongside the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). (For a solid analysis on the budget and the QDR, check o...
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Travis Sharpe: Lead Author, QDR 2014
Travis Sharpe better watch out, because Shawn Brimley used to sit in his comfortable perch at CNAS and write all kinds of sensible stuff about the budget and the QDR, and look...
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From the Dept. of Friends Selling the Books of Friends
I just got a package in the mail that made me smile. Matt Gallagher -- American Hero, Champion Foosballer, and author of a legendary blog written while soldiering in Iraq -- h...
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This Weekend's News: All About Nuclear
The United States made an initial pledge to reduce greenhouse gases 4% by 2020 in a letter sent to the United Nations. How are we going to do it? Last week made clear that nuc...