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John Nagl and Rachel Maddow: Together At Last
*/ Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Rachel Maddow says we would not have invaded Iraq if "the counterinsurgents" had been in charge. ...
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Can't argue with that, really.
My friend Issandr has the best suggestion for a motto for the Center for a New American Security:Because the old security sucked....
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Abu Muqawama Founder and Fellow Andrew Exum Discusses New CNAS Policy Paper on Afghanistan
In providing additional military forces for the Afghanistan war, the Obama administration has demonstrated that Afghanistan is no longer an economy-of-force campaign. But a tr...
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Extended Thoughts on Hizballah
Long-time readers of this blog will have noticed a bit of pessimism in my recent posts on Hizballah. Cynicism about Lebanese politics is nothing new for this blog, but even so...
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Is COIN history or political science?
Pete Mansoor and Con Crane discuss....
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They move quick around here... (updated)
John Nagl, Ahmed Humayun* and I have a paper out from the Center for a New American Security arguing for increased funding for Afghanistan's National Solidarity Program (NSP)....
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Two Wars? Or More?
So this is going to be a really interesting QDR.Thomas Donnelly, a defense policy expert with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he believed that the Obama a...
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Non-COIN Quote of the Day
From a Jewish friend of mine, currently in Iraq, on celebrating Purim in Baghdad:There's nothing like seeing an army officer with a 9mm and a Queen Esther mask....
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COIN Quote of the Day
I have been reading an advanced copy of James Arnold's new survey of counterinsurgency campaigns and came across this quotation from Thomas Bugeaud, the 19th Century French co...
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Reading the Sunday Washington Post
Several things in today's Post caught my eye this morning: 1. We should all applaud Phillip Bennett for his excellent observation that in all the books written on America's wa...
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The Trouble with Christopher Hill
We all know Christopher Hill is a smart and talented diplomat. But has he ever served in the Middle East? And has he ever worked hand-in-hand with the U.S. military? Lindsey G...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
United States and the Asia-Pacific Region: Security Strategy for the Obama AdministrationThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) cordially invites you to a panel discussion with Ralph Cossa, Patrick Cronin, RADM Michael McDevitt, and Brad Roberts. The evenin...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
CNAS Bacevich Fellow Nirav Patel discusses the new Asia Strategy ReportOngoing shifts in geopolitical power from West to East make the Asia-Pacific region more important to the United States today than ever before. The region is already an engine...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
CNAS Bacevich Fellow Nirav Patel on the new Korea report, "Going Global"The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have one of the most formidable and durable military alliances in the world. This alliance has preserved peace and stability ...
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Ouch.
I didn't say anything in response to Nick's response to my criticism. Hassan Nasrallah does all my heavy lifting. The leader of Lebanon's Islamist Hezbollah movement, Hassan N...
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Who says the Palestinian security forces aren't well trained?
Someone get Keith Dayton a medal! A young Israeli woman who works as a stripper was found intoxicated in Ramallah Friday morning, and returned to Israel with the aid of the P...
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Is this 2005 all over again?
Max Boot, Fred Kagen, and Kim Kagen have an op-ed on how we can win in Afghanistan. Les Gelb has an op-ed in the very same paper on the very same day saying how we can withdra...
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Well!
And here I was, telling everyone that we would not see any big change in our Afghanistan policy for another 12 months -- the logic being that the immediate situation was so ve...
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The Economist on Kilcullen and Ricks
The Economist reviews books by two of my colleagues at CNAS, Tom Ricks and Dave Kilcullen (who, to be fair, have been friends and mentors for much longer than the two weeks I'...
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Noe on Lebanon Policy (Updated)
My friend Nick Noe has a new paper, readily downloadable from the Century Foundation (.pdf), arguing for a new direction in U.S. policy toward Lebanon. I read a draft of the p...