Articles & Multimedia
Showing 8201-8220 of 9513 Publications
-
Insecure about Iraq
One of our regular blog readers requested some discussion of the recent spate of bombings in Iraq and the implications for the U.S. pullout from Iraqi cities set for June 30 (...
-
Learning to Eat Soup with a Spork: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Sri Lanka?
As I sort through my pile of vacation emails, I found this op-ed that my colleague MZ passed along last week. I don't know much about Sri Lanka, but I remember some of our rea...
-
Technology & National Security
Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy - VideoThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS), in partnership with Google, hosted a panel of six experts from the government and the private sector who offered their perspecti...
-
Natural Security in the News: Spotlight Iraq and Afghanistan
This week’s news roundup takes us to U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Iraq, the government is beginning to be forced to deal with issues related to its natural reso...
-
In Iraq, Water is Central to Any Population-Centric Strategy
In Tuesday’s edition of The Independent, Patrick Cockburn shares his observations on the outlook for Iraq in the coming year, taking a rather dismal view of the country’s futu...
-
What we should really be worried about...
Apologies for the delay in posting new stuff, but I'm currently on vacation at my beloved childhood home in America's Finest City. The gorgeous weather, fantastic surfing, and...
-
Securing Afghanistan, American Midwest Style
Last week, we featured a Washington Post article on the critical task of revitalizing Afghanistan’s agricultural economy. Well, the battle continues, and McClatchy reports tha...
-
Traditional Propaganda
There is something disturbingly reassuring in watching real honest-to-goodness traditional propaganda. It gives you a false sense of superiority, in a sort of twisted way, to ...
-
You Can’t Spell “Stupid” without “ID”, and maybe not without “Cav”
Hello all. The landlord asked me to enter real subtle-like. So I am doing my best to comply. Bear with my reticence. ~ Denominator Now look, I’ve served in the 1st Cav. I’ve ...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Why does Abu Muqawama hate freedom?
Oh, goodness, I have offended the Blackfivers....
-
Clowns to the left of me / jokers to the right
Man, we are catching it from all sides today!...
-
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...
-
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...