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In the Dahiyeh?
I just got a notice in my inbox that Christopher Hitchens will be speaking at the American University of Beirut on Wednesday night at six. The title of his lecture is "Where a...
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Afghanistan Lost
The weekend edition of the Financial Times is the greatest newspaper. I didn't venture outside to buy it this weekend, but Laura Rozen passed along this great article on Nancy...
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The Gamble: Winners and Losers (Updated)
One of the advantages of being more or less "tits up" for the past 48 hours is that my illness has allowed me to finish The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Mil...
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The Saharan Conundrum - Shifting Sands
Some important weekend reading courtesy of the NYT. Nicholas Schmidle's portrait of violent extremism in the maghreb pretty much nails it as far as Londonstani is concerned. T...
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When arrows don't penetrate / Cupid grabs the pistol
I'm home this weekend battling what I believe to be a mild case of Ebola, but that will not stop me from reminding you all that this past week marked the one-year anniversary ...
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Freefall in the Emirates
They kept saying they had not been affected by the current crisis, but evidence -- both anecdotal and economic -- is piling up:With Dubai’s economy in free fall, newspapers ha...
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Tom Ricks Book Launch, The Gamble
February 12, 2009 - The Center for a New American Security was thrilled to host CNAS Senior Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks in an event to release...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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Tom Ricks on the Daily Show
I was out drinking at Kelly's Irish Times last night with several of the brightest young security studies scholars that I know and thus missed Tom Ricks on The Daily Show. (I ...
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More Thoughts on Kabul
Kip (remember Kip?) wrote in to offer comment on yesterday's post:I understand the emotional underpinning of your reaction to today's attack in Kabul and the need for urgency ...
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Greatest. Headline. Ever.
The Sun is the most effective instrument of what passes for allied information operations. That's really sad. (Thanks, Mitch.)...
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Why worry? They're probably just hitting on girls at the mall.
If you haven't been scared to death recently, by all means click on this link (.pdf). 11 of these dudes were in Gitmo. The Saudis are asking for help finding these guys. For t...
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God Bless Australia
The 31-year-old, who was in the water with a police diver, managed to punch the shark a few times and then swim to a safety boat nearby....
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The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
February 10, 2009 - In his new book out in stores February 10, CNAS Senior Fellow Thomas E. Ricks documents the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005. Using hundreds of...
By Michael J Zubrow & Thomas E. Ricks
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Really?
Did Tom Ricks really just describe David Kilcullen as "the Crocodile Dundee of counterinsurgency" on NPR? Because everyone knows Dave is the Shane Warne of counterinsurgency. ...
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The F-22 as Stimulus
Those of you who still read the paper copy of the Washington Post in the morning could not have helped but notice the full-page color advertisement for the F-22 in today's fro...
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Imagine 400 Abu Muqawamas
Look, this is all well and good, but before you start filling the ranks of our nation's officer corps with smart-ass Ivy Leaguers, I suggest you check with some of my former c...
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An Open Letter to Tom Ricks
Dear Tom, Stop saying the surge worked militarily but failed politically. If it failed politically, it failed militarily. A better way of expressing what I think you are tryin...
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Waltz (Not Kenneth)
Yesterday, I went to see Waltz with Bashir. It was, as expected, pretty amazing. The entire audience stayed in their seats at the end to watch the credits. I myself had troubl...
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Tone? A question for the readership.
Anyone who has read what I write in print about defense policy knows that it's pretty bland and serious. (Examples are here and here and here.) The way I blog, by contrast, is...
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Roundtable on Afghanistan: Panelist David Kilcullen
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Roundtable on Afghanistan February 5, 2009 - SEN. KERRY: Well, this first roundtable of the round-rectangular table of the Foreign Relations...