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Afghanistan and/vs. China
This may surprise some of you, but within the walls of 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., there is a pretty lively debate among the scholars and staff who work here about whether or not ...
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Live Blogging DoD Roundtable with U.S. Navy CDR Matthew Ovios, Today 1500 EST
We will live blog a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable this afternoon at 3 p.m. EST with U.S.Navy CDR Matthew Ovios, commanding officer of the USS Ingraham. CDR Ovios will discuss th...
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Events from Around Town: China and Climate Security
It is always great to get out of the office and I was fortunate enough yesterday to get over to my old stomping grounds at the Wilson Center for an event on China and Climate ...
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Pakistan Dispatch - How do lose trust and alienate people 101
You're western European diplomatic staff in a country with a security problem, and the people kinda suspect that you and your ilk are to blame for it. However, the top priorit...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Peter Maass
Yesterday I had a great phone conversation with Peter Maass. I reviewed his new book Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil for the blog last week, and he was kind enough to...
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Three Books on Afghanistan
It's important to be honest about what we do not know. As many of you are aware, I have an academic background in the language, cultures, politics and history of the Arabic-sp...
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News Update
Politico is reporting this morning on a $3 million dollar earmark to bring the rare earth mine at Mountain Pass, California back into full production. The mine, managed by Mol...
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Pakistan Dispatch - Kerry who?!
Kerry Lugar is the talk of Islamabad. And as tempted as Londonstani was at first to assume everyone was referring to a new pop star rival to Britney it turns out Kerry Lugar i...
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Storms, Teapots, etc.
I think Gen. McChrystal erred in talking publicly about the war in Afghanistan because he is a man who, constitutionally, cannot not tell the truth about his assessment of the...
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The Fourth Star: Greg Jaffe, David Cloud and a Free Glass of Wine
Attention, all readers of this blog: The fellows and staff of the Center for a New American Security are hosting a book party for Greg and David's excellent new biography of J...
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Diplomatic Genius from Pakistan
So my boss is in New York debating Ralph Peters, Pat Lang and Steve Clemons on Afghanistan and Pakistan. The latter are defending the motion "America cannot and will not succe...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Panel Discussion at "China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power" - VideoThe Honorable Patrick Cronin, Dr. Michael Green, Robert Kaplan, and Abe Denmark discuss the release of the CNAS report China's Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Rela...
By Michael Green, Patrick M. Cronin & Robert D. Kaplan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Keynote Address by Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg at China's Arrival: The Long March to Global PowerDeputy Secretary of State James Steinberg delivered the keynote address at the release of the CNAS report China's Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Relationship....
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Pakistan Dispatch - Undercover in Islamabad
Londonstani has decamped to Pakistan for the coming weeks (and possibly months). Although, his assignment this time doesn't involve news reporting or undercover investigative ...
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Sampler to UNAMA?
I read on Laura Rozen's blog that Larry Sampler is in line to replace Peter Galbraith in UNAMA. Discussion of Galbraith and his controversial exit aside, I think the world of ...
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Echoes of domino theory
Not to be outdone by AM on the traveling front, Londonstani has spent the best part of 24 hours on planes flying around the Middle East. And, the one good thing about travelli...
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Minerals and Security: Issues and Sources
With the help of Spencer Ackerman giving a nod to our use of music video to add a small glimmer of personality to the Natural Security Blog on what could have been a rather ru...
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How to Win in Afghanistan
Some tips, from Sunday's New York Times, from 10 smart people and one blogger....
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The echos of Afghanistan
British politicians are fond of telling the public that fighting in Afghanistan prevents bombs going off at home. Considering that more than half the population wants the army...
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I don't know how to say this [in Hebrew], but I'm kind of a big deal [on the internet].
I'm blogging from Terminal Three in Ben Gurion Airport, where I left myself plenty of time to get through all the security checkpoints. The first time I visited Israel, in Dec...