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Natural Security on the Front Page
Sunday’s New York Times reported on the nexus of climate change and national security and the efforts to integrate climate change concerns into U.S. strategic planning. John B...
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Killing Pablo -- er, Ahmed
If "to target" means to capture or kill, this is not necessarily a good idea. WASHINGTON — Fifty Afghans believed to be drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban have been pla...
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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: Abu Aardvark Jumps In
Good observations and questions from Marc Lynch. I find the strategic rationale for escalating the war in Afghanistan extremely thin, and the mismatch between avowed aims and ...
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Bonn Talks the Next Step in the Long Road to Copenhagen
From August 10 – 14, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex Parties under the Kyoto Protocol and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action un...
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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: Day Three
For more on this dialogue, click here. A number of you have asked why this dialogue did not begin with me answering my own questions, which is a fair enough question to ask. I...
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Debating the Cost of Afghanistan
The New York Times has a good round-up of a debate some say, ahem, isn't happening. Although, to be fair to all parties involved, this debate indeed should have happened a lon...
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Schmidle on Mehsud
Nick Schmidle -- one of my favorite commentors on Pakistan -- warns us to not get overly excited about the assassination of Baitullah Mehsud and, to my mind, gets his conclusi...
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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: Day Two
For more on the project, click here. Today's submission is one from the "con" side of the dialogue. (I am not, I should note, trying to keep a rigid 50/50 split between pro an...
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The Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue: Day One
For more on the project, click here. There have already been some great submissions. Many thanks to reader "Scott Wedman" for this initial conversation-starter: The war in Afg...
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Abu Muqawama is currently more angry at the world than Jeanie Bueller
I just participated in the most asinine interview ever on The Takeaway, so if you were unfortunate enough to have been listening, I apologize. (The very intelligent) Paul Hugh...
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Weekly News Roundup: Hungry for Security
Food was on the mind this week, with reports from several continents on how issues of agriculture and land tenure impact security. Wired’s Danger Room continues to follow U.S....
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Maybe Bacevich Has a Point: Introducing the Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue
Dear Readers, Upon returning from Afghanistan, one of the things I have noticed is how quickly support for the war in Afghanistan has diminished in the United States (especial...
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Dalton Fury ... On Killing
Hey, what's this! Abu Muqawama is proud to host some guest commentary from none other than Dalton Fury on a subject we tend to avoid in the happy-happy, play-well-with-others ...
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Mehsud Dead?
My thoughts on drone strikes substituting for a strategy in Pakistan aside, the death of Baitullah Mehsud would be a good thing. But it's my sense that many in Pakistan consid...
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So it's not just this blog's readers who are pessimistic and angry about Afghanistan?
I must say, the Congress is exactly right to be demanding this: WASHINGTON — As the American military comes to full strength in the Afghan buildup, the Obama administration ...
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Nope
No sooner had I finished writing the below blog post on U.S. interests in Afghanistan and the risks of our counterinsurgency strategy than I read Andrew Bacevich's most recent...
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“Well, Hamid, at least I’m only ruining Kandahar. You’re ruining the whole country.”
"When you come to power your eyes go blind, your ears go deaf and you don’t know anything anymore." If anyone at work is wandering why I am late today, it is because I have be...
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Ready for the Energy Revolution? NAS Says Yes...Sort Of
The good news is that there is plenty of energy in the United States: supplies of sunlight, wind, geothermal, nuclear, and fossil fuels dramatically outstrip demand. The bad n...
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War and Law
The excellent debate between Avishai Margalit, Michael Walzer, Amos Yadlin and several others on Israel and the laws of war continues through the pages of the New York Review ...
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Events from Around Town: Stimson Looks at Water in AfPak
The Stimson Center held an event yesterday called “Water and Peace in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” at which Dr. Daanish Mustafa, a geographer at King's College, London, outlined...