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The Battle of Algaes
Last night I attended a conference on nonvascular polyphyletic plantlike organisms, alternately eukaryotic and prokaryotic. These are commonly known as algae, which is useful ...
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Pakistan Catch Up
Any hopes Londonstani had that Pakistan would be trouble-free while Ms Henley-on-Thames made a slightly nervous visit didn’t last long… about 7 hours to be exact. The day Ms H...
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This Weekend’s News: The Changing World
Last Friday afternoon, Sharon and I were walking back to the CNAS offices after a meeting and chatting about the indicators we see in our natural security research about the w...
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For the record, I don't know what Fick is talking about. I bought my Ranger Tab at the PX for $1.65.
Oh, the story of the dude who showed up at his high school reunion and told everyone he was a highly decorated Marine... Yeah, that's a crime now, bud. I'm sure the readership...
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Amazing Afghanistan Pictures
From David Guttenfelder. I especially like the one of the wildman from 1-26 fighting in his flipflops and pink underwear and the one of the U.S. Marine carrying a 60mm mortar ...
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The Taliban's Playbook
They know ours. Now we have theirs. nefa_talibancodeconduct...
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define: berserk
Better late than never, read this Veterans Day essay in the Boston Globe by Ted Sutton....
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Weekly News Roundup: Climate Change Diplomacy
Climate change diplomacy is in the air. With the Copenhagen climate summit rapidly approaching, the newswires are abuzz with governments and private groups expressing their vi...
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Vietnam Ended in 1975, Gang
Laura Rozen's blog post on the Eikenberry memos is worth reading if only because it features some quotes from those dinosaurs in the Democratic Party who think that when it co...
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Reading Old Magazines: Is the CIA Being Led Astray?
Two weeks ago I wrote about the debate around what role the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could play in analyzing climate change. As I noted in that post, the CIA has alre...
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Throwing Karl Under the Bus
Well whoever leaked the fact that Karl Eikenberry is deeply skeptical of the effects of a troop increase in Afghanistan certainly had the desired effect as far as the Washingt...
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Hegghammer on "Small" Footprints in Afghanistan ... and Kate Brooks on Pakistani Fashion
Thomas Hegghammer, along with Will McCants, knows more about al-Qaeda than any person I know. He's from that Norwegian school (led by this guy) that thinks you need to, you kn...
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More Genius from the Onion
"U.S. Deports Lou Dobbs"...
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Reconciliation and Insurgency in Afghanistan
I mentioned how much I enjoyed this event at the Center for American Progress. I can't get the embed code to work for some reason, but you can now watch it online here....
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For this we fought?
I often do not agree with my friend Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, but he is certainly one of the more talented journalists I know and surely one of the bravest as well. I was having dinn...
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Veterans Day
We at CNAS are taking the day off of work -- and that includes blogging -- but I led a group of folks around a very rainy Mall to see the World War II memorial, the DC World W...
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Yup.
That's war, alright. Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks...
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Sectarian Cleansing and the Surge
Josh Foust passed along this report arguing that "the surge dovetailed a series of converging dynamics on the ground, facilitating more so than engendering a cessation of host...
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Agricultural Development Teams
USAID does not have the agricultural specialists needed for the mission in Afghanistan, but the National Guard sure does. They have been especially successful in Ghazni. Thank...
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Happy Birthday, USMC
Lt. Col. Jeffrey "Jay" Goodes just led the CNAS celebration of the Marine Corps Birthday, and Abu Muqawama salutes all the leathernecks celebrating downrange in Iraq and Afgha...