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Learning from the LTTE
Mia Bloom: But the Tigers' legacy remains intact. Their perfection of suicide bombings, their recruitment of women and children, their innovation in IEDs, have been emulated ...
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Now that's a scandal!
The Guardian:Sensitive files detailing the extra marital affairs, drug taking and use of prostitutes by very senior officers in the RAF have been stolen, raising fears within ...
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Major Junior Promoted!
One of this blog's all-time favorites, Major W. Thomas Smith Jr. -- affectionately known as "Major Junior" to the journalist community in Beirut -- has apparently been promote...
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Biden in Beirut II: Parsing the Speech (Updated)
Today, in Beirut:VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: President -- President Suleiman, thank you very much for your gracious welcome. I do bring greetings on behalf of President Obama. As yo...
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Primacy, holla
Realists everywhere are venting in their faculty lounges:“We will maintain America’s military dominance and keep you the finest fighting force the world has ever seen.”...
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No, that is not what I wrote.
Okay, misquoting me because of my indecipherable accent is one thing. Misquoting something I have written is another. An alert reader catches Tim Heffernan: Here's what Heffe...
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Biden in Beirut
Joe Biden is in Beirut. Unless, something crazy happens, like Biden waving a Hizballah flag and marching to the Fatima Gate, I stand by what I told Laura Rozen a few days ago ...
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USAF Serious About Irregular Warfare?
More good news from Inside the Pentagon?The Air Force's top officials in charge of irregular warfare were briefed yesterday on new details of the service's sweeping plan to as...
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Amazing Pictures from the Korengal Valley
Many, many thanks to the reader who sent these along....
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Mattis at JFCOM
A lot of people think the U.S. military is wasting Marine Corps General James Mattis and his many talents at the Joint Forces Command. I am not so sure. Great men find a way t...
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Down and Out in North Lebanon
It turns out the economy sucks for even militants these days. Mitch Prothero -- who has been accusing me of being a "DC Fobbit" of late -- reports from Tripoli:“I have no job ...
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Greatest. Red Team. Ever.
From Inside Defense:Last month, Gates directed the formation of a QDR Red Team to provide an alternative to the assessment Flournoy and her office are leading. The Red Team is...
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On Obama vs. Cheney
I just sat through both speeches. In case you missed them, a summary:Obama: Rule of law über alles. Cheney: We didn't torture, but those mother%$#@ers deserved it....
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Boy, there is just no good news for Pakistan these days...
The Guardian: Shoaib Akhtar will miss next month's World Twenty20 tournament due to a genital infection, said the Pakistan Cricket Board today. "The medical board has reporte...
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Mimi and her Magic Globe
Anna Sussman on migrant workers in Lebanon... Although it is, perhaps, an urban myth, a friend once told me how the wife of an Asian ambassador had been asked to leave the sw...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Impact of China’s Economic and Security Interests in Continental Asia on the United StatesThis CNAS Congressional Testimony contains Fellow Abraham Denmark's statement on the strategic and geopolitical implications of China’s engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan ...
By Abraham M. Denmark
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Rid and Exum at SAIS: RSVP Now
Thomas Rid is one of my favorite scholars, so I was excited when he asked me to help introduce his new book. Expect a free-flowing conversation followed by a Q&A.The Cente...
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How World-Class Journalism Happens
You guys know how much I hate it when journalists become the story, but here I make an exception. This account of how C.J. Chivers and his "shooter", Tyler Hicks, got the stor...
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I expect to get hit with a cyanide-tipped umbrella anyday now...
Dave and I now have the head of the CIA angry with us: LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- U.S. airstrikes aimed at al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan have been "very effective," wit...
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Innes on Kilcullen
My friend and occasional intellectual sparring partner, Mike Innes, weighs in on David Kilcullen's The Accidental Guerrilla in an extended review....