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Meanwhile, in Iraq...
Smart Iraq-watchers are a lot more worried by tensions in northern Iraq than by car bombs in Baghdad, which -- if we are to believe Nir Rosen (and I, for one, do) -- lack stra...
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Flame War!
I was on Politico reading how George Will is about to call for a pull-out from Afghanistan -- not that surprising given Will's somewhat conservative* views -- when I was distr...
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Afghanistan: Easy to Lose, Hard to Win
General McChrystal's assessment of the war in Afghanistan was forwarded to the Secretary of Defense and the NATO Secretary-General today, so it's as good a time as any to flag...
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Fishing for a Fight
“Fishing stocks represent a significant natural resource for African coastal communities,” according to Ambassador Mary C. Yates, civilian deputy at United States Africa Comma...
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Elections in Afghanistan: A Heritage Foundation Event
Pretty interesting panel discussion at the Heritage Foundation. I was wondering what Barno's thoughts on all this were... In other news, Hamid Karzai is doing his best to exha...
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Mullen: It's Still A Pig, Part II
Spencer provided the link to the piece itself: But beyond the term itself, I believe we have walked away from the original intent. By organizing to it—creating whole structure...
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COIN Is Expensive
You know that. So too is blogging about it. Scrooge McFick finances my own blogging, but our favorite blog and more responsible cousin -- Small Wars Journal -- relies on gifts...
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Weekly News Roundup: Energy and Climate Change in Africa
This week featured a number of stories which highlight the risks and challenges climate change pose to Africa, as well as a variety of developments related to energy productio...
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Abu Muqawama Demands The Minotaur Memos!
The Onion calls bulls**t on the cable news torture debate as only The Onion can. Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?...
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Population-Centric Cowterinsurgency
I subscribe to few magazines, but aside from Soldier of Fortune and the New York Review of Books, the Atlantic is one of them. In this issue, I chuckled my way through a hand-...
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Reading Old Magazines: Rare Earth Elements and Security
For this week’s Reading Old Magazines I decided to focus on minerals, given the news pieces yesterday on rare earth materials. I chose one with a great title from the journal ...
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Working with, around, through and against GIRoA
I've been going on and on about the Afghan government of late, and though you folks know I care little for our counter-narcotics efforts, drugs do matter when they have an eff...
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An Alternative to Population-Centric COIN?
One author in the Indian Defense Review has drawn lessons from Sri Lanka's campaign against the LTTE. They are a far cry from FM 3-24. But are they better? Or even an alternat...
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PakGov: Admin Costs Consume 50-55% of U.S. Aid
What are we to do with this? Shaukat Tarin, Pakistan’s finance minister, has urged the US to channel its assistance through Pakistani agencies instead to save on high intermed...
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August CTC Sentinel Published
I just printed the whole thing off to read on the Metro (.pdf). All kinds of good stuff, as usual, and with more geographic diversity than this blog has sported of late....
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Abu Muqawama About 30 Seconds Away From Unfurling A Giant Red Flag And Singing The Internationale
Oh. My. Goodness. Boy, we sure picked the guy to restore working- and middle-class faith in capitalism, alright....
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See if you can find the hackneyed sports cliche in this post
Josh Foust -- who, as Spencer Ackerman memorably put it, "never misses an opportunity to critique a side he agrees with" -- has stepped up to the plate and begun an effort to ...
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Widening the Aperture
Eli Lake was right to profile Derek Harvey, the widely respected intelligence officer now starting a center in U.S. Central Command for the study of Afghanistan and Pakistan. ...
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The "Is Counterinsurgency Stifling the Debate?" Debate: Day Two
From a reader: Given the sheer mass of articles in my google reader, both sides of the debate are certainly talking at each other enough to make any accusation of "stifling" s...