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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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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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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...
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The Islamist – book review
Ed Husain’s The Islamist was published in 2007, and since then it has become probably the most referred to work so far on radicalisation in Britain. There was a point last yea...
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What does the Continuity IRA have in common with the U.S. Marine Corps?
Okay, I will admit that I had never even heard of the Continuity IRA until yesterday. (So many forms of the IRA: the IRA, the PIRA, the RIRA, the OIRA, the anti-treaty IRA ......
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Craig Mullaney on the Daily Show
*/ I don't what Craig is talking about here. I got through Ranger School mostly by being a smart-ass and through my ability to walk ad infinitum. Mostly, though, through smart...
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Greg Jaffe to the Washington Post
This was leaked a few days ago, but one of the nicest men I know, Greg Jaffe, will replace Tom Ricks at the Washington Post. I cannot think of a better replacement. Greg is as...
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Oh, great
I don't worry about the guys whose numbers Martin McGuiness and Gerry Adams have on their cell phones. I worry about the guys whose numbers they don't have on their cell phone...
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Abu Muqawama's Taste in Whiskies
Some clarification is in order. While it is true that I do enjoy Bushmills and actually have a bottle of it here, in my office, I feel the need to identify my very favorite wh...
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Does this qualify as "Army Strong?"
I went to Craig's book-signing last night and then retired with Craig and some friends to an Irish pub a mile down the road. I ended up sitting across from this guy who had ob...
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If anyone was looking for a definition of "unconventional warfare"...
The U.S. Navy is defenseless against semi-naked, trash-talking Chinese: Maritime experts were given a rare glimpse of the underlying capabilities of the Chinese navy on Sunda...
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Gallieni --> Galula --> Petraeus
Hang around this blog long enough and you will hear us talk a lot about not only David Galula and Roger Trinquier but also the earlier generation of French theorists -- Lyaute...
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This. Is. Genius.
Looking for a good history of the Second World War? Like all others, this one focuses too much on Western Europe and gives the United States too much credit. Otherwise, it is ...
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It's Not About Defense. It's About Jobs. Period.
Again, the president has a bigger problem with his own party here than he does with Republicans. All I am asking is that we move these programs out of the defense budget and i...
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Cohen on Hizballah
Roger Cohen gets things a little off in his column today on why we should initiate contacts with the "political wing" of Hizballah. First off, who is this "political wing?" Do...
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But when he does, he reads Abu Muqawama
I've got $20 and a shot of Bushmills for the first White House staffer who provides evidence that Barack Obama has read this blog: Q: Other than The New York Times. Do you re...