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Pakistan Dispatch: Attacks in Islamabad
Three attacks in three days in the Pakistani capital as the Waziristan operation goes on. The latest is still happening about 2km from where Londonstani is now. Television new...
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Escape!
Well, it's not quite Steve McQueen, but David Rohde's story is pretty cool nonetheless. And remember, The Cooler King was caught....
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Reading Old Magazines: Taking Stock
Given all our recent work and the recent press on critical minerals (or “strategic” minerals; more on the distinction later), I gave a look back this week to Peter Harben’s 19...
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Events from Around Town: U.S. Military Energy Strategies
I sat down last night preparing for 3+ hours of panel and PowerPoint presentations. While this came to fruition, I found myself pleasantly surprised by the diversity of my col...
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Enough already, it's a war...
You think there is tension between the U.S. military and its civilian leaders? I wouldn't want to be in charge of political-military relations in the Bundestag: Yet politician...
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CNAS and the Cult of Personality
You have no idea. For every article like this one, Abe and I just launch new schemes to print red t-shirts with Nate's face replacing that of Che. If you are a Washington-base...
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East Tennesseans or Pashtuns? You Make the Call!
One of the world's brighter young Afghanistan scholars sent me an email asking if this was a movie about Pashtuns. Because all us mountain people fight over the same three thi...
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Steve Biddle is constitutionally incapable of writing the phrase "half-assed" in an article
This is an important and timely piece of work: It is easy to see why such middle ways are so popular. They could lighten the burden on the federal deficit. They could put fewe...
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Rohde Q&A
David Rohde is doing a Q&A feature with Times readers, and the questions are incredibly wide-ranging. Credit goes to the reporter for taking the time to answer the hard on...
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Afghanistan 2011: Three Scenarios
The David Fastabend question -- "How does this end?" -- has been one I have been asking myself in light of the current policy debates on Afghanistan. Accordingly, I sketched o...
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National Security Human Capital
CNAS Book Launch: The Fourth Star - VideoThe Center for a New American Security held a book launch and discussion, moderated by Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, on The Fourth Star, a book by journalists and form...
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Can The U.S. Succeed In Afghanistan, Pakistan?
CNAS President John Nagl participated in an Intelligence Squared debate. Nagl argued against the motion "America Cannot and Will Not Succeed in Afghanistan/Pakistan."...
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Arguing Afghanistan, Arguing Vietnam
In case you missed it (not likely), the New York Times featured dueling op-eds from both Lewis Sorley and Gordon Goldstein on the lessons of Vietnam as applied to Afghanistan....
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Here It Goes Again
From the BBC: A panel probing fraud claims in the Afghan election has found Hamid Karzai did not gain enough valid votes for an outright win, the BBC understands. Preliminary ...
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Book Review: The Worst Hard Time
I want to make sure that we are including some homeland natural security issues every now and again here at the Natural Security Blog. I also wanted to read something semi-fic...
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Torture and the UK
Does Britain collude in the torture of terror suspects or not? The head of MI5 said in a speech the other day that torturing people might be OK for Jack Bauer, but it's not OK...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The world's least secret operation
Pakistan's military finally launched its operation in Waziristan today after nearly a month of official announcements telling everyone to expect its imminent execution. London...
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Suicide attacks in Iran - The Pakistan effect?
So a suicide bomber today killed "several top commanders in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards" and the Iranians blamed the US and the UK. So far, so predictable. But away from...
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Bergman on Hizballah
I have several friends in the Israeli journalism community whose reporting I trust and admire, but when it comes to Hizballah, I am often wary of what is written from south of...
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Where is Tom Emanski when we need him?
What is wrong with the Angels? You should not lose the ALCS because of your inability to throw and catch... Tom Emanski Commercial. from Amir on Vimeo....