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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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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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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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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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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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Rumsfeld's Peers on Rumsfeld
You guys have all read this Robert Draper piece on Rumsfeld, right? Just checking....
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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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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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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,...
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Building the Team
The New York Times and the Washington Post have dueling profiles of General McChrystal this morning. Neither are terribly illuminating. (The general likes to run!) Our friend ...
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Maddow and the Muqawama
Rachel Maddow just forced me to pronounce the name of this blog on live television, which is how I ended up giving approximately 1.2 million Americans a lesson in how to prono...
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McKiernan's Defenders
Watch CNN's Barbara Starr go after both Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen in yesterday's press conference around the six-minute mark of this video. Just watch. Starr, like ma...
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Biddle on Iraq ... and what to do when things go wrong
Steve Biddle has a piece up on the CFR website on contingency plans for Iraq -- or, as I like to call it, "America's Forgotten War"©. Most likely scenario that would lead to a...