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How to beat the pirates?
Ninja Fred has ideas....
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Baghdad
Not too long ago, I bristled when Andrew Bacevich carelessly observed that "The Long War has been good to Dr. [David] Kilcullen." Good in what sense, I wanted to ask? Professi...
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Recovered from the Pentagon's Emails
To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Subject: Thanks!http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21293.html Those Navy snipers off the coast of Somalia might have done ...
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Horowitz and Shalmon in Orbis
Looking back, it was a serious mistake of me to have been talking about the budget without simultaneously talking about the article written by my friend Mike Horowitz and Dan ...
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Pirates ... and Lebanon!
God bless Sean Lee, who has figured out a way to allow me to talk about pirates and Lebanon. If anyone figures out a way to bring military innovation theory into this conversa...
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DADT and the Age Gap
The retired flag officers who wrote the op-ed in today's Washington Post arguing that homosexuals should not be allowed to serve in the military were born in 1934, 1936, 1935,...
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What the Neoconservatives Got Right
I met up with an old commander of mine last night for a beer, and while I was waiting at the bar, I got caught up on some of the reading I had missed over the weekend. Include...
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Drugs and Hizballah in Lebanon
You want to know the full story on yesterday's violence in the Bekaa? And the drug trade in Lebanon? And how Hizballah ties into it? I have been holding my tongue here on the ...
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Thoughts on Piracy...
...from a long-time friend of the blog.Resistance Daddy, First, on Saturday, I thought firing three shots from a rolling platform and getting three kills on another rolling pl...
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More on Piracy
Here I am, with Bob Kaplan, King of Historical Analogies, on the Charlie Rose Show last night talking about piracy. My friend Noah Schachtman, meanwhile, has come up with a li...
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Special Abu Muqawama Interview: Anastasia Moloney
I was really impressed with Anastasia Moloney's piece in the World Politics Review on Colombia's endgame with the FARC. The readership was as well and came up with some good q...
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It's all going off in the Bekaa...
Mexico is not the only state whose authority is being challenged by drug gangs. This has nothing to do with Hizballah, either. This is about Shia drug clans. Which is a phrase...
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A Conversation With David Kilcullen
For those who missed it......
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Yellow Shirts vs. Red Shirts
The ASEAN Summit in Bangkok has been shut down with mass protests and clashes between pro-government groups, supporters of the previous government, and the military/police for...
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Arguing the Budget (Continued) UPDATED
Last week, I gave some space on the blog to Tom Donnelly of the American Enterprise Institute to raise concerns about the defense budget. This week, in addition to this op-ed ...
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The Regionalization of Hizballah
A few years back, folks were debating when Hizballah would finally become "Lebanonized" and confine their activities to the Lebanese political sphere. Between 2000 and 20005, ...
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On SOF and Piracy
One of the great things about this blog's readership is the readiness it displays to challenge me when topics drift into things about which I know less than a true subject mat...
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America! %$#@ Yeah!
Happy Easter indeed! (More to follow...) MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) -- An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a swift firefight that killed three of the four Somali pi...
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"I give a fuck about your chai. I care about the mission."
Boy, here's the most depressing video you will see all week. On the ground with Marine trainers in Afghanistan. (Thanks, B.D.)...
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Pirates on Sunday
My CNAS colleague Bob Kaplan has an op-ed in the New York Times today on -- what else? Aargh! -- pirates. Bob thinks this running fiasco off the Horn of Africa doesn't reflect...