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What is Natural Security?
Is it really a threat, or just a way to try to get people to pay attention to the environment, by "securitizing" something that isn’t about security? It's a good question, and...
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CNAS Annual Conference: Live Feed
Abu Muqawama will be offline all tomorrow as we take part in the annual CNAS conference, kicked off by General David Petraeus and expected to attract a ridiculous 1500 guests....
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Shock and Awe
Tom Ricks and I were just sitting around the office wondering what Tommy Franks was doing these days when Nate Fick piped up to mention that he is running a stud farm in Oklah...
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Budget Realities
I am not the pro's pro on the defense budget, but Michael O'Hanlon's worry in today's Post seems warranted. For the Defense Department to merely tread water, a good rule of th...
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What does Ja Rule think about COIN?
I don't even know where I come off complaining about Tom Friedman. Yesterday, I was sitting in the CNAS conference room going over our presentations for tomorrow with my colle...
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Ooph.
That's the sound of the sinking feeling I get when I realize that all the average university-educated American will know about the Lebanese elections he or she will learn from...
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Too True to be Funny
Dana Milbank, in today's Post: This meeting of the Senate Military-Industrial Caucus will now come to order. The chair recognizes the senator from Northrop Grumman for a que...
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The American Way of COIN
A little over a year ago, Janine Davidson -- now the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Plans -- was charged with explaining counterinsurgency warfare to a junior senat...
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100 Years of COIN: What new have we learned?
That's the question my friend and mentor David Betz is asking. David sees some real weaknesses in the literature....
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Elias Muhanna on Lebanon in the WPR
His post-mortem of the Lebanese elections is worth reading....
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Has anyone been unlucky enough to have participated in all five?
Oh for goodness' sake: WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has given the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan 60 days to conduct another review of the American strateg...
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Inside the Surge
I just got my hands on a hard copy of this first-person account, written by my friend Jim Crider, of a year in the life of a battalion commander during the Surge of 2007. I'll...
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Abu Muqawama (Magnum) Updated
So we've been tweaking the blog design all day. It's better, no? What's still missing? Let us know in the comments....
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The Cold War vs. The New Order
For those who missed it, the Politico had an interesting and lengthy feature today on defense policy debates. (And John Nagl answered questions from the Politico's readership ...
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Arguing Lebanon
Rob Satloff made a claim on Hahvahd's Middle East Strategy blog that Vice President Biden's one-day visit to Beirut was decisive in swinging the election to March 14th. Really...
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Sarah Palin Meets Abu Muqawama
D.J. Skelton, John Nagl and I were walking back into the office when I saw a woman who looked a lot like Sarah Palin standing outside the Starbucks at 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue...
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Abu Muqawama (Magnum)
A quick word to the readers: The gang of internet elves working on this website has been really responsive to requests and is working hard to immediately fix both the comments...
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We now need a metric to measure how successful we are at spreading our metrics
This bit about measuring success will anger Michael Cohen, but the staff editorial in today's New York Times displays a sophisticated understanding of counterinsurgency warfar...
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Well, well, well... Lebanon's Elections: Winners and Losers
So forget any and all predictions I make on this blog. Nothing is yet official, but it looks as if the March 14th coalition will win the elections in Lebanon -- by perhaps a w...
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Qifa Nabki on the Elections
Elias/Qifa is required reading today (and tomorrow, I suspect)....