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Sleepwalking into Helmand
From the Daily Telegraph, excerpting a paper published in the British Army Review: Writing in the British Army Review, an official MoD publication, Major SN Miller, stated: "L...
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Yes, John, but who is more fierce? The Taliban or the Scientologists?
We last saw the BBC's John Sweeney when he was baiting Scientologists in California, but Londonstani went through hazardous environment training with him a year or so back, an...
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On the ground in Konar Province
I spoke with Greg Jaffe last week, and though he had just returned from Afghanistan a few hours earlier, he couldn't wait to tell me about this young shalwar qameez-wearing co...
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Reading Old Magazines: Natural Security
When our Veep Sharon Burke landed on the term “natural security” when developing this CNAS program late last year, our staff dug around to see how the term has been used in th...
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You Too Can Win the IO Fight in Afghanistan
My colleague Kristin Lord has been asking around, trying to find out who is in charge of our communications efforts in Afghanistan. The answer, apparently, is you. Abu Muqawam...
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I'll be surprised if this story makes it into al-Gomhuriyya
Hookers 5-0 Egypt: JOHANNESBURG — In news that, if true, will bring relief to World Cup organizers and embarrassment to the Egyptian soccer team, three South African newspaper...
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Iranian Riot Grrrls
Watch this woman in a chador take a break from listening to Bikini Kill on her iPod long enough to wheel this dumpster into a barracade at :47 of this video. Just awesome, the...
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Twittering the Revolution: Don't Believe the Hype?
First off, let me praise those bloggers -- Andrew Sullivan, Nico Pitney, Robert Mackey -- who have used Twitter feeds from Iran to tirelessly live-blog the uprising in Tehran....
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Photos of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
Critical minerals may sound like a new security topic, but as these photographs show, such supplies have always played a major role for the nation. Scrap metal and aluminum dr...
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Natural Security in the News: Spotlight on Energy
From Nigeria to outer space, the news this week featured a number of developments highlighting energy security challenges. Shell announced that oil shipments from Nigeria will...
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Natural Security on the Front Page: Afghanistan
As our own Sharon Burke wrote earlier this month in her Natural Security concept paper: President Obama has stated repeatedly that peace in Afghanistan will be contingent on e...
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Arguing Iran
I suspect the critical op-eds by Paul Wolfowitz and Charles Krauthammer in today's Washington Post will merely serve to convince the president that he is doing the right thing...
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Strawberry Fields Forever
Rajiv Chandrasekaran has a long profile of our failed development efforts in Afghanistan in today's Washington Post. Worth your time. At some point -- and that point should ha...
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Rodenbeck and Fisk v. Ahmadinejad
I am not a big fan of politically-motivated translation services, but this MEMRI clip of Ahmadinejad getting grilled by Max Rodenbeck (The Economist) and a visibly sober Rober...
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Abu Muqawama's Security, Meanwhile, is 100% Artificial: "Sugar, Water, Purple"
Hey, kids, go visit our new Natural Security Blog, which is to Abu Muqawama what Grape Juice is to Grape Drink. Contributors to the blog include Christine, Sharon, and Seth An...
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Triage Live
The highly entertaining panel discussion of our new paper on Afghanistan and Pakistan can now be listened to via the CNAS website for those of you who could not attend CNASapa...
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I suppose this is a reasonable request, but...
...at the same time, I don't want to imagine the alternatives to "Senator" and "ma'am" that were running through this brigadier general's head: Overheard at a Senate hearing y...
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Funding IW
From Inside Defense: June 17, 2009 -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates is considering options to reshape the military that could squeeze up to $75 billion from current budget pl...
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Why DC is such a weird town, explained through basketball
This has nothing to do with counterinsurgency, but it's a great piece of sports and political journalism: For people who don't spend much time in Washington, all this can be c...
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Old Dix & Co.
James Dao is now covering what is known as "the Jaffe beat" for the New York Times, examining things like the cultures of the services and the military removed from its combat...