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Does anyone else get the sense...
...that Obama's big speech in Cairo today is a bigger deal in the Western world than it is in the Arabic-speaking and Islamic worlds? The speech is only the #2 story on al-Jaz...
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The Lebanese Armed Forces: The Case for Continuing Aid -- Come Hizballah or High Water
I have said before that -- now that I am no longer based in Beirut -- this blog is probably not the go-to place for in-depth commentary on the Lebanese elections. But in the n...
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Drones
I love it when readers contact me with "You've probably already seen this, but..." No, no, the odds are I have not already seen it. I really appreciate the tips from the reade...
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And take your Jomini with you! (Updated)
Michael Cohen asks: Over at abu muqawama, Andrew Exum makes an audacious claim about the proper metric for success in Afghanistan. In responding to a WSJ article about the m...
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Rid, Exum and War 2.0
Those of you who do not live in the DC area or could not attend yesterday's event can listen to Thomas Rid and me discuss his important new book here. (Pardon the scratchy aud...
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Dave Kilcullen on Aussie TV
Talkin' sense. Read the transcript and watch the video here.In Afghanistan, we have a lot of support from the local population and we have, you know, a very large level of int...
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Charity Opportunities
Gang, Allow me to take a break for one moment from all my counterinsurgenting to highlight two worthy causes to which I am tied. The first is that I will be going for an early...
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Metrics that Matter
NYT:In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General McChrystal said the measure of American and allied effectiveness would be “the number of Afghans shielded ...
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McHugh for the Army
I have been in a meeting for the past hour and a half and returned to read my comments and discover that John McHugh, a Republican congressman from upstate New York, will be t...
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Intern Nick Strikes Again
Well, CNAS loses a great intern, but the Naval Postgraduate School gains a new research assistant. Nick Masellis has left CNAS, but he has another contribution on SWJ:...when ...
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Threat of the Day
Okay, you all know I make a point of never blogging about Israel and the Palestinian Territories, but this paragraph from Akiva Eldar, tongue firmly in cheek, made me laugh to...
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Drone Strikes: The Pushback
A clutch of anonymous intelligence and military officials -- no doubt stung by the degree to which the efficacy of drone attacks in Pakistan has been questioned of late -- hav...
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Afghanistan: the Good and the Bad
Goodness gracious, what is going on my country? My co-religionists are assassinating people in their churches and the U.S. and Canadian governments, by the end of today, will ...
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Reminder: Rid, Exum and War 2.0 at SAIS on Monday
The Center for Transatlantic Relationsat the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University Invites you to a Praeger/PSI book launch andLunch...
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Understanding the Surge in Iraq and What's Ahead
CNAS Senior Fellow Tom Ricks commented on the surge in Iraq and described what is ahead for American troops at an event hosted by the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Ricks ...
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Small Wars Journal is to Rolling Stone as Abu Muqawama is to Vice
So are we bitter that our boss John Nagl nominated Small Wars Journal to Rolling Stone's "Hot List" instead of us? Naw. I'm pretty sure no one under 40 years of age reads Roll...
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Dogs and cats, living together. Mass hysteria!
Galrahn blogs on Kilcullen. What's next, me blogging on naval tactics? (Hey, I am reading Brodie right now.)...
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Sois belle et vote lis le FT
The Financial Times has really been devoting a lot of time to Lebanon in advance of next weekend's elections -- more so than any other Western English-language newspaper I fol...
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Ghaith in the Mog
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, a native of Baghdad, watched his hometown spiral downward into bloody chaos from 2003 until 2007. But when he visited Mogadishu, even he was unprepared for ...
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How We Know It's Getting Worse in Pakistan
The new report on Afghanistan and Pakistan that I helped put together here at CNAS will have an entire section devoted to metrics for following the President's strategy in Afg...