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USAF Serious About Irregular Warfare?
More good news from Inside the Pentagon?The Air Force's top officials in charge of irregular warfare were briefed yesterday on new details of the service's sweeping plan to as...
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Amazing Pictures from the Korengal Valley
Many, many thanks to the reader who sent these along....
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Mattis at JFCOM
A lot of people think the U.S. military is wasting Marine Corps General James Mattis and his many talents at the Joint Forces Command. I am not so sure. Great men find a way t...
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Biden in Beirut
Joe Biden is in Beirut. Unless, something crazy happens, like Biden waving a Hizballah flag and marching to the Fatima Gate, I stand by what I told Laura Rozen a few days ago ...
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Down and Out in North Lebanon
It turns out the economy sucks for even militants these days. Mitch Prothero -- who has been accusing me of being a "DC Fobbit" of late -- reports from Tripoli:“I have no job ...
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Mimi and her Magic Globe
Anna Sussman on migrant workers in Lebanon... Although it is, perhaps, an urban myth, a friend once told me how the wife of an Asian ambassador had been asked to leave the sw...
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Boy, there is just no good news for Pakistan these days...
The Guardian: Shoaib Akhtar will miss next month's World Twenty20 tournament due to a genital infection, said the Pakistan Cricket Board today. "The medical board has reporte...
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On Obama vs. Cheney
I just sat through both speeches. In case you missed them, a summary:Obama: Rule of law über alles. Cheney: We didn't torture, but those mother%$#@ers deserved it....
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Greatest. Red Team. Ever.
From Inside Defense:Last month, Gates directed the formation of a QDR Red Team to provide an alternative to the assessment Flournoy and her office are leading. The Red Team is...
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Rid and Exum at SAIS: RSVP Now
Thomas Rid is one of my favorite scholars, so I was excited when he asked me to help introduce his new book. Expect a free-flowing conversation followed by a Q&A.The Cente...
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Innes on Kilcullen
My friend and occasional intellectual sparring partner, Mike Innes, weighs in on David Kilcullen's The Accidental Guerrilla in an extended review....
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I expect to get hit with a cyanide-tipped umbrella anyday now...
Dave and I now have the head of the CIA angry with us: LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- U.S. airstrikes aimed at al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan have been "very effective," wit...
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How World-Class Journalism Happens
You guys know how much I hate it when journalists become the story, but here I make an exception. This account of how C.J. Chivers and his "shooter", Tyler Hicks, got the stor...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Impact of China’s Economic and Security Interests in Continental Asia on the United StatesThis CNAS Congressional Testimony contains Fellow Abraham Denmark's statement on the strategic and geopolitical implications of China’s engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan ...
By Abraham M. Denmark
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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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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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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...