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Traditional Propaganda
There is something disturbingly reassuring in watching real honest-to-goodness traditional propaganda. It gives you a false sense of superiority, in a sort of twisted way, to ...
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Securing Afghanistan, American Midwest Style
Last week, we featured a Washington Post article on the critical task of revitalizing Afghanistan’s agricultural economy. Well, the battle continues, and McClatchy reports th...
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You Can’t Spell “Stupid” without “ID”, and maybe not without “Cav”
Hello all. The landlord asked me to enter real subtle-like. So I am doing my best to comply. Bear with my reticence. ~ Denominator Now look, I’ve served in the 1st Cav. I’ve ...
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This Element's a Time Bomb
While we usually talk about critical minerals that are important to the modern economy and for uses in weapons systems and high-tech gear, the June 2009 Scientific American fe...
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Yes, John, but who is more fierce? The Taliban or the Scientologists?
We last saw the BBC's John Sweeney when he was baiting Scientologists in California, but Londonstani went through hazardous environment training with him a year or so back, an...
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Reading Old Magazines: Natural Security
When our Veep Sharon Burke landed on the term “natural security” when developing this CNAS program late last year, our staff dug around to see how the term has been used in th...
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On the ground in Konar Province
I spoke with Greg Jaffe last week, and though he had just returned from Afghanistan a few hours earlier, he couldn't wait to tell me about this young shalwar qameez-wearing co...
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Sleepwalking into Helmand
From the Daily Telegraph, excerpting a paper published in the British Army Review: Writing in the British Army Review, an official MoD publication, Major SN Miller, stated: "L...
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You Too Can Win the IO Fight in Afghanistan
My colleague Kristin Lord has been asking around, trying to find out who is in charge of our communications efforts in Afghanistan. The answer, apparently, is you. Abu Muqawam...
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Why does Abu Muqawama hate freedom?
Oh, goodness, I have offended the Blackfivers....
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Clowns to the left of me / jokers to the right
Man, we are catching it from all sides today!...
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Funding U.S. Counterinsurgency Wars
Steve Biddle, in typically intelligent analysis, considers a "double transformation": Ironically, the traditionalists are right about tomorrow, but the young Turks are right a...
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Kilcullen on Authors@Google
Many thanks to the reader who saw this YouTube clip of David Kilcullen speaking to the nerds at Google. I always learn something when I listen to or speak with Dave -- even wh...
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I'll be surprised if this story makes it into al-Gomhuriyya
Hookers 5-0 Egypt: JOHANNESBURG — In news that, if true, will bring relief to World Cup organizers and embarrassment to the Egyptian soccer team, three South African newspaper...
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Iranian Riot Grrrls
Watch this woman in a chador take a break from listening to Bikini Kill on her iPod long enough to wheel this dumpster into a barracade at :47 of this video. Just awesome, the...
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Twittering the Revolution: Don't Believe the Hype?
First off, let me praise those bloggers -- Andrew Sullivan, Nico Pitney, Robert Mackey -- who have used Twitter feeds from Iran to tirelessly live-blog the uprising in Tehran....
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Abu Muqawama's Security, Meanwhile, is 100% Artificial: "Sugar, Water, Purple"
Hey, kids, go visit our new Natural Security Blog, which is to Abu Muqawama what Grape Juice is to Grape Drink. Contributors to the blog include Christine, Sharon, and Seth An...
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Rodenbeck and Fisk v. Ahmadinejad
I am not a big fan of politically-motivated translation services, but this MEMRI clip of Ahmadinejad getting grilled by Max Rodenbeck (The Economist) and a visibly sober Rober...
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Photos of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
Critical minerals may sound like a new security topic, but as these photographs show, such supplies have always played a major role for the nation. Scrap meta...
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Strawberry Fields Forever
Rajiv Chandrasekaran has a long profile of our failed development efforts in Afghanistan in today's Washington Post. Worth your time. At some point -- and that point should ha...