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Security or Non-Security?: Agriculture in Afghanistan
Last Thursday, a somewhat motley crew gathered at the State Department to discuss the U.S. government’s agricultural efforts in Afghanistan. The panel featured Secretary of Ag...
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The Value of a Lessons Learned Process
I was on a plane to the Middle East on Sunday evening when I spotted these lines from Leon Panetta's op-ed in the Washington Post: The main lesson from this attack is that, li...
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Approaching Yemen's extremism problem
There was a good article in the Independent today about the situation in Yemen. Keeping in mind the recent discussion on this blog about what to do, two paragraphs particularl...
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Remarks from Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao at the CNAS U.S. India Initiative Launch Event
On January 12, CNAS launched the U.S.-India Initiative at an event in New Delhi co-hosted by the Aspen Institute India. The event featured Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Ra...
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This Weekend’s News: A Little Something for Everyone
I didn’t see one major unifying theme in this weekend’s news, but good, in-depth articles on several important topics. Pipeline Politics. First, news of pipeline politics off...
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The Wall Street Journal, and Drones
A few months ago, I allowed my housemate's subscription to the Washington Post to lapse and used my Delta Skymiles to buy a subscription to the Wall Street Journal. I quite li...
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Events from Around Town: Drowning in Conflict
Yesterday I made the short walk from the CNAS office to the Woodrow Wilson Center to catch the Environmental Change and Security Program’s most recent event, Water, Conflict, ...
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Crisis? What Crisis?
My friends Laura Rozen and Michael Cohen are way off base if they think the report written by Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn on the failure of military intelligence in Afghanistan co...
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From the Dept. of Brilliant Ideas
Spencer Ackerman and Matthew Yglesias have an idea as to who should headline the CNAS June conference: Vo Nguyen Giap. I, for one, think this would be a brilliant idea. Our tw...
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Cold (Fusion) War: The Saint
Scientists have come up with many wacky ideas in the search for new forms of energy. The Department of Energy has even decided to throw money at people with off-the-wall ideas...
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Yemen's coming disaster
The Nigerian Islamist who allegedly attempted to detonate a bomb on a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has brought Yemen once again into the spotlig...
By Andrew M. Exum & Richard Fontaine
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2010 Wish List
Most everyone else has published a wish list for 2010. Why shouldn’t we? Some on this list are more realistic than others, of course. The fun part of it is that we here at CN...
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Two more things you should read on Afghanistan
The thought-provoking (Stewart) and the sublime (Bleuer). With respect to the latter and by my own count, I have at times been guilty of #9, #14, #17, #21 and #26. With respec...
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Pakistan's New Year resolutions
The News on Sunday newspaper printed a list of "obsessions" Pakistan could do without in 2010. It's sort of like a list of New Year resolutions. But away from politics (as muc...
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The Most Important Thing You'll Read on Afghanistan This Month
This summer, as Gen. McChrystal took command in Afghanistan, it became clear to both him and his intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Mike Flynn, that the way we gather and process i...
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This Weekend’s News: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
This long holiday weekend, the plethora of commentary on the state of the economy at the beginning of 2010, dissections of the past and projections for the future all indirect...
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Yemen and al-Qaeda - Different place, same mistakes?
Nearly two years ago, Londonstani wrote his first post for this blog. It was based around an interview Londonstani conducted near one of the Palestinian camps in Lebanon with ...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The distorted lens
As militant violence continues to claim lives throughout Pakistan, the job of finding answers is made impossible by the near-total inability of public opinion to arrive at som...
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Photo of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on New Year's Eve
A million thanks to Mike McCarthy and Amanda Hahnel, our two fabulous interns who provided you with news and analysis on this blog this fall. You're likely to still see a few ...
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Top 5 Natural Security Posts of 2009
Lithium: Not Just A Nirvana Song 5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Gregory Johnsen Beware of Climate Change Denialism: You’re the Target 5 Questions with Someone Interesti...