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Spies and Journalists in Pakistan
A story has been rumbling on in Pakistan for a couple of weeks now that just plain refuses to go away. The daily newspaper, the Nation, published an article on Nov 5 claiming...
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Pakistan Dispatch: A Tale of Two Talibans
Is there really a difference between the Taliban in Pakistan and the Taliban in Afghanistan? The question divides the Pakistani and American governments as well as analysts an...
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Lady Sky
The New York Times profiles one of the great counterinsurgents of the contemporary era ... and a great friend and mentor to this blogger. RARELY does the hulking commander of ...
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Pakistan's last refuge
On the continuing theme of "what Pakistanis think" on various issues, an article in The Nation (a newspaper mostly known for calling out American journalists as spies and forc...
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Quote of the Day: Thierry Henry Edition
"After many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport and learned it in the RUA." -- Albert Camus, Goalke...
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Hahahaha! These guys are straight out of Hogan's Heroes!
Is this story for real?! I never thought Iraqi prisoners could be so freaking awesome. These guys should all be pardoned: BAGHDAD - It seems that the Brett Favre-Green Bay Pac...
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Reasons why the Israeli football (soccer) team shouldn't play its neighbours
If two Arab countries can produce this much anger towards each other.. "Riot police in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, quelled a violent demonstration near the Algerian embassy i...
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Lewis Millet, Dead at 88
What. A. Legend. “I went from Army deserter to colonel,” he said. “I served in two armies, in three wars — in Africa, Europe and Asia.” He said he had met presidents, “had my ...
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The Game is Rigged
Did any of you see this? FIFA needed both France and Portugal in this summer's World Cup, and both were facing playoff games after failing to qualify in the group stages. It w...
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Events from Around Town: Strategic Resources and New Global Security Trends
It has been a long week already, after a marathon reception Tuesday evening and a full day yesterday, as we had the honor of supporting the Defense Attachés Association (DAA) ...
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National Security Human Capital
Flag on the Bag? Branding Foreign Assistance and the Struggle Against Violent ExtremismCNAS Vice President for Studies Dr. Kristin Lord testified before the House Armed Services Committee on whether the branding of U.S. foreign assistance has the potential to pu...
By Kristin M. Lord
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Reading Old Magazines: “India’s Mineral Wealth and Political Future”
Foreign policy watchers know that India is a hot topic in world politics, and will only become more so as its population and economic prospects increase (though its economy, l...
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Hey! Charlie's in Kabul!
Did she mean for her new blog to be discovered? Well, it's too late now. One of our readers already did. This may be the first spinoff from Abu Muqawama. Let's hope it's more ...
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I hate it when CNAS scholars only write about stuff that has to do with counterinsurgency...
...like when one of our interns writes about Thorium and the nuclear fuel cycle. Another COINdinista, obviously....
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Re: Translator Wanted
Many of you responded with a willingness to read and translate portions of this book by this man for me from the Hebrew. A friend volunteered, but rest assured, I will write a...
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The Honorable Ray Mabus Prepared Remarks -Transcript
Download the transcript from the November 18, 2009 speech by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus on strategic energy use and the U.S. Navy at the Defense Attachés Association's an...
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What happened to solidarity among southerners, Haifa?
Oh no, the pride of Mahrouna, Haifa Wehbe, has gotten in trouble for calling those from Upper Egypt "monkeys". Tsk, tsk. I don't think singing this in Aswan is going to make u...
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Counterinsurgency - Lessons from Pakistan
There's little news coming out from independent sources about the Pakistani army's campaign in Waziristan. The suspicion amongst the international journalists and analysts is ...
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#2
Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index is released today. Somalia just edges out Afghanistan for most corrupt nation on Earth....
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SSR in Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen
Yezid Sayigh, to whom this blogger owes both a dissertation chapter as well as an interim progress report, has a new white paper out from the Carnegie Institute on secutiry se...