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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Growing
“Could the next war be powered by potatoes?” So wonders Tina Casey in CleanTechnica, commenting on the U.S. military’s efforts to innovate and integrate alternative energy tec...
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Good news from the tribal areas... Seriously!
I missed this, but my eagle-eyed readers did not: DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A new Islamic militia leader has emerged in Pakistan to openly challenge al Qaida-affiliated war...
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More Cold Water
A friend of mine raised a good point regarding the Spiegel/VOA claim that 5,000 Hizballah footsoldiers were on the streets of Tehran. 1) Hizballah had approximately 1,200 full...
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Next Generation National Security Leaders
A new CNAS program, and a great opportunity for some of the under-35s who read this blog. Folks with "downrange" experience are especially encouraged to apply....
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Is Climate Change A Developing Country Problem?
Yesterday the White House released a major report (see video) produced by a consortium of 13 federal agencies organized by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The report,...
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COIN for Dummies, Written by Dummies
Asad Durrani, the former chief of the ISI in Pakistan, explains counterinsurgency warfare to his countrymen in this article. You, dear readers, probably did not know that COIN...
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No
I simply do not think this claim that Lebanese Hizballah is on the ground in Tehran cracking skulls to be credible. In many domestic conflagrations, outside interferrence is a...
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Anyone else noticed that the editor in chief of the New York Times has been reporting from Tehran?
Is this good, or should he be back in New York trying to lose less money this quarter?...
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FATA Follies?
For a moment there, I was excited by the possibility that the Pakistani Army might consolidate its gains in the Swat Valley and try a little of the "hold" and "build" phases o...
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The debate over drones is getting serious...
The Onion is now weighing in....
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What Kind of Blog is this?
One of the hardest tasks for a think tank is deciding what not to publish. The CNAS Natural Security Program is a project apart, however, and that’s why we thought this blog w...
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Caption Contest: Backstage at CNASapalooza '09
I have absolutely no idea what I am saying here. Feel free to guess in the comments thread. ...
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Abu Muqawama and the Zionist Conspiracy
Through the divine miracle that is the internets machine, I have found the greatest blog ever. Please go visit this site and help this clown's hit count so he'll continue blog...
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The MSM Strikes Back
Hey, you know who is doing a good job covering the events in Iran? The digital Gray Lady, along with Bobby Worth and Nazila Fathi on the ground in Tehran. Just trying to give ...
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DOD on Energy: Model FOBs to Model Cities?
Some of DOD’s most interesting advanced research and development projects have focused on incorporating various energy technologies into a fully operational system – a “Net Ze...
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On Technology and Revolution (updated)
Today's Washington Post had a really interesting op-ed by two U.S. pollsters: Many experts are claiming that the margin of victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad w...
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Or the Starbucks
This video filled every DC resident's inbox at work on Friday. It will hit home for a sizeable portion of this blog's readership....
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Schmidle on Swat
Man, does Nick Schmidle ever talk a lot of sober-minded sense in today's Washington Post: In some ways, Swat and South Waziristan today are like Afghanistan and Iraq in 2003: ...
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Jimmy Carter on Jeff Feltman
From my friend Josh Hersh, in the New Yorker: Perhaps the only thing Carter hadn’t found time for, of late, was an epic e-mail from Jeffrey Feltman, the State Department’s env...
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Hard Questions About CyberCommand
In the Washington Post: "This whole notion of being global means we have to work collaboratively with other countries," said Suzanne Spaulding, a former CIA assistant general ...