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Abu Muqawama [Hearts] Blue-Collar Bars in Boston and Every Other City
“The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.” -- Leon Wieseltier in today's New...
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Oracular Spectacular
This news hit yesterday, but it should be noted that yesterday's massive bombing in Kandahar is in line with the Quetta Shura Taliban's modus operandi in that -- like the pris...
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Do As We’re Doing…At Home, Too
Environmental journalist and author Michael Grunwald, writing in Foreign Policy’s special report Oil: the Long Goodbye, takes on the “Seven Myths About Alternative Energy.” Gr...
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And now for something completely different...
Jerry Warner and Pete "Robots Boy" Singer on defense energy strategy (.pdf). The U.S. Department of Defense is the world’s single largest consumer of energy, using more energy...
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On Major Publications on Natural Security: National Oil Companies and National Security
Natural security issues are gaining major traction in the media lately, most notably a cover feature on oil in Foreign Policy magazine and climate change taking the spotlight ...
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The "Is Counterinsurgency Stifling the Debate?" Debate: Day One
One reader suspects some of this blog's readership is just frustrated with the direction in which our Afghanistan policy is headed: First, full disclosure: I'm staunchly again...
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In Defense of Scotland: NSFW
I saw two movies this weekend, actually: Inglourious Basterds and In The Loop. The latter is really funny political satire that will hit home for many of this blog's readers, ...
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CNAS Next Generation National Security Leaders
CNAS has selected the 2009 class of Next Generation National Security Leaders. There were 450 (!) applicants for 24 slots, so apologies go out to the many fine candidates who ...
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The "Is Counterinsurgency Stifling the Debate?" Debate: Day One, Part III
From a political science professor (and avid blog reader): No. No. And No. Or at least no more than having a policy inevitably means official Washington will back that poli...
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COMISAF COIN Guidance Released
The counterinsurgency guidance issued by Gen. Stan McChrystal to his units in the field has been finalized and released -- and it's very good. I would say it incorporates most...
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On Taking Sides ... and Glass Houses
Rep. Peter King wonders whose side Eric Holder is on with respect to the investigation into alleged torture conducted by our intelligence agencies. That's all fine and good, a...
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Iraq: The New Afghanistan
It's both the new "good war" and the new "forgotten war" [h/t A.S.]: ...
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Debating Afghanistan Strategy and Politics
I sat in my office this morning, working, and listened to this debate between Josh Foust and Michael Cohen in the background. This is a good smart discussion between two intel...
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Nasty, Brutish, Short…and Wet?
Flying jet-skis, melted icecaps, a mutant sailor, and a cartographic tattoo can mean only one thing: it’s time to review Waterworld, the Oscar-nominated cinematic marvel out o...
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Lt. Aldo Raine Would Sure As Hell Not Have Released al-Megrahi
Uh oh. The Scots-Irish and the Scots are falling out over terrorism. I don't even need to ask my relatives where they stand on this issue. The Megrahi affair has highlighted t...
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What Every American Sould Know About Afghanistan in 1,000 Words*
Someone in Holbrooke's team has been speaking to the chief diplomatic correspondent of the New York Times, and the result is a news article that pretty much hits on most of th...
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Announcing the "Is Counterinsurgency Stifling the Debate?" Debate
I am at my wit's end. I re-read this post from yesterday and have no idea how it used "Cheneyesque tactics to delegitimize dissent." Yet that's what one reader accuses me of d...
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The War in Afghanistan ... and Haggling
Robert Kagan dismisses this "war of necessity"/"war of choice" nonsense and then nails it: But there is a deeper reason, as well, for Obama to claim necessity in Afghanistan. ...
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Ramadan Kareem, Y'all
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Afghanistan: A war of choice? And what is the alternative?
Richard Haass writes: Wars of necessity must meet two tests. They involve, first, vital national interests and, second, a lack of viable alternatives to the use of military fo...