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They move quick around here... (updated)
John Nagl, Ahmed Humayun* and I have a paper out from the Center for a New American Security arguing for increased funding for Afghanistan's National Solidarity Program (NSP)....
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Two Wars? Or More?
So this is going to be a really interesting QDR.Thomas Donnelly, a defense policy expert with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he believed that the Obama a...
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Non-COIN Quote of the Day
From a Jewish friend of mine, currently in Iraq, on celebrating Purim in Baghdad:There's nothing like seeing an army officer with a 9mm and a Queen Esther mask....
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COIN Quote of the Day
I have been reading an advanced copy of James Arnold's new survey of counterinsurgency campaigns and came across this quotation from Thomas Bugeaud, the 19th Century French co...
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Reading the Sunday Washington Post
Several things in today's Post caught my eye this morning: 1. We should all applaud Phillip Bennett for his excellent observation that in all the books written on America's wa...
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The Trouble with Christopher Hill
We all know Christopher Hill is a smart and talented diplomat. But has he ever served in the Middle East? And has he ever worked hand-in-hand with the U.S. military? Lindsey G...
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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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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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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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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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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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
CNAS Bacevich Fellow Nirav Patel discusses the new Asia Strategy ReportOngoing shifts in geopolitical power from West to East make the Asia-Pacific region more important to the United States today than ever before. The region is already an engine...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
United States and the Asia-Pacific Region: Security Strategy for the Obama AdministrationThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) cordially invites you to a panel discussion with Ralph Cossa, Patrick Cronin, RADM Michael McDevitt, and Brad Roberts. The evenin...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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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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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...