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Pakistan Dispatch: Below criteria - Unreported death
At one place Londonstani worked, there was an unofficial metric for deciding when to report civilian deaths. It basically looked like this, 1 dead Westerner = 10 dead locals. ...
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Alternatives to Population-Centric COIN in Afghanistan
Credit goes to reader and enthusiastic supporter of all things counterinsurgency Michael Cohen for sending along this piece by the very serious and very smart Austin Long that...
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One Man, Two Wars
In Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith is the principled former deputy to Kai Eide who spoke out on Afghan corruption. In Iraq ... well, it's a little more complicated. Reidar Visser...
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(Criticism - Constructive Alternatives) = (Udders + Bull)
As I watched the Frontline documentary on Tuesday night and read the Dexter Filkins profile of Stan McChrystal in the New York Times Magazine yesterday, I found myself thinkin...
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Wanted: Spring Interns
Wanna hang out at the Little Think Tank That Could this spring? Apply here. The pay is low, the morale is high. We get a pretty amazing crew of interns each season, by the way...
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Weekly News Roundup: Tradeoffs
An interesting theme emerged in natural security news this week: tradeoffs. As any economist will tell you, you can’t have it all. Tradeoffs are inevitable. Energy is no diffe...
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Reading Old Magazines: The New Geography of Conflict
Wars over timber, shrinking water supplies, and constant forward deployment of our military to protect oil and natural gas reserves, this was the vision that Michael Klare, th...
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Day One at the Naval Energy Forum: a Tweeted Recap
Instead of writing a full recap of day one of the Naval Energy Forum, I thought I’d just present the highlights (below) as I Tweeted (Twittered?) them yesterday. You can watch...
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Pakistan Dispatch - "bold, accurate and precise" Lahore under attack
Londonstani woke up this morning to find out Lahore had turned into a war zone. The city, which until earlier this year felt largely insulated from the problems on the wester...
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JP 3-24 Released
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I am an Environmentalist
“Take your economy killing, phony alarmist, money grabbing, pseudo science and stuff it --- you ugly, arrogant liberal windbag.” That is a portion of an email I received yeste...
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Live Tweeting the Naval Energy Forum Today
For those of you who could not get out to the Naval Energy Forum this morning, follow Christine Parthemore on Twitter, @clparthemore, as she live tweets all the action. Also b...
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Using Time Wisely
I was having coffee with a former commander in Afghanistan this morning when I started talking to him about something that has been on my mind for the past week or so. Even if...
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What I'll Be Doing Tonight
1. This event for Greg Jaffe and David Cloud's wonderful new book. 2. Rugby practice. 3. Rushing home to watch Frontline....
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#42!
When I heard that my erstwhile drinking buddy and fulltime boss, Nate Fick, had been named one of GQ's 50 most powerful people in Washington, I responded with the understated ...
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Afghanistan, 1929-1978
I am tiring of this narrative in the U.S. and international media that says Afghanistan is, has always been and will always be a nation at war with itself and its neighbors. W...
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Marek Edelman, RIP
Sometimes insurgents are the good guys, and Marek Edelman was one of the good guys. He died a over a week ago, and when I read his obituary in the newspaper after his passing,...
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Going “DARPA Hard” on Energy
“Energy has always been an important point in the military,” said Dr. Barbara McQuiston, special assistant for energy at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),...
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Counterintuitive Counterinsurgency
As the Obama administration debates whether to stick with the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan, opponents point to that nation's flawed presidential election as a re...
By John A. Nagl & Richard Fontaine
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Eide and UNAMA
Is everyone else similarly enjoying Londonstani's posts from Pakistan? Who knew we would see the day when this blog had a foreign correspondent? I, meanwhile, am in the safety...