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This Element's a Time Bomb
While we usually talk about critical minerals that are important to the modern economy and for uses in weapons systems and high-tech gear, the June 2009 Scientific American fe...
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Kilcullen on Authors@Google
Many thanks to the reader who saw this YouTube clip of David Kilcullen speaking to the nerds at Google. I always learn something when I listen to or speak with Dave -- even wh...
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Funding U.S. Counterinsurgency Wars
Steve Biddle, in typically intelligent analysis, considers a "double transformation": Ironically, the traditionalists are right about tomorrow, but the young Turks are right a...
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Clowns to the left of me / jokers to the right
Man, we are catching it from all sides today!...
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Why does Abu Muqawama hate freedom?
Oh, goodness, I have offended the Blackfivers....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...