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It's Official: Nagl's running CNAS
Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. We should be selling tickets to the John and Nate show. Laura Rozen and her legions of informants reported on this last week. ...
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Hitchens Beaten by the SSNP?
Can anyone in Beirut verify this?"I dont know if you find this as news worthy or not, but Christopher Hitchens is currently in Beirut sponsored by the same group that owns tha...
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Afghanistan Roundtable
A helpful reader linked to this roundtable discussion on Afghanistan on the Diane Rehm show. (She's Arab-American, you know.) Nancy Youssef, Karin von Hippel, and John Nagl al...
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The Next Secretary of the Army: What Not to Look For
I keep hearing rumors Arnold Punaro is going to be named the next Secretary of the Army. Not that my opinion matters, but I am not cool with that. Why? Well, how about the fac...
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Ah, but will he fire Madam No?
I just heard that Ibrahim Moussawi -- late of al-Intiqad -- will now run the media relations office for Hizballah. He replaces Hussein Rahal....
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Someone explain this to me
I understand nothing about submarines. How the hell does this happen? Is it that crowded down there? LONDON -- Nuclear-armed submarines from Britain and France collided in th...
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Afghanistan Lost
The weekend edition of the Financial Times is the greatest newspaper. I didn't venture outside to buy it this weekend, but Laura Rozen passed along this great article on Nancy...
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In the Dahiyeh?
I just got a notice in my inbox that Christopher Hitchens will be speaking at the American University of Beirut on Wednesday night at six. The title of his lecture is "Where a...
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The Gamble: Winners and Losers (Updated)
One of the advantages of being more or less "tits up" for the past 48 hours is that my illness has allowed me to finish The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Mil...
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The Saharan Conundrum - Shifting Sands
Some important weekend reading courtesy of the NYT. Nicholas Schmidle's portrait of violent extremism in the maghreb pretty much nails it as far as Londonstani is concerned. T...
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When arrows don't penetrate / Cupid grabs the pistol
I'm home this weekend battling what I believe to be a mild case of Ebola, but that will not stop me from reminding you all that this past week marked the one-year anniversary ...
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Freefall in the Emirates
They kept saying they had not been affected by the current crisis, but evidence -- both anecdotal and economic -- is piling up:With Dubai’s economy in free fall, newspapers ha...
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Tom Ricks Book Launch, The Gamble
February 12, 2009 - The Center for a New American Security was thrilled to host CNAS Senior Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks in an event to release...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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Tom Ricks on the Daily Show
I was out drinking at Kelly's Irish Times last night with several of the brightest young security studies scholars that I know and thus missed Tom Ricks on The Daily Show. (I ...
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More Thoughts on Kabul
Kip (remember Kip?) wrote in to offer comment on yesterday's post:I understand the emotional underpinning of your reaction to today's attack in Kabul and the need for urgency ...
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Greatest. Headline. Ever.
The Sun is the most effective instrument of what passes for allied information operations. That's really sad. (Thanks, Mitch.)...
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Why worry? They're probably just hitting on girls at the mall.
If you haven't been scared to death recently, by all means click on this link (.pdf). 11 of these dudes were in Gitmo. The Saudis are asking for help finding these guys. For t...
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God Bless Australia
The 31-year-old, who was in the water with a police diver, managed to punch the shark a few times and then swim to a safety boat nearby....
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The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
February 10, 2009 - In his new book out in stores February 10, CNAS Senior Fellow Thomas E. Ricks documents the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005. Using hundreds of...
By Michael J Zubrow & Thomas E. Ricks
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Really?
Did Tom Ricks really just describe David Kilcullen as "the Crocodile Dundee of counterinsurgency" on NPR? Because everyone knows Dave is the Shane Warne of counterinsurgency. ...