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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...
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I suppose this is a reasonable request, but...
...at the same time, I don't want to imagine the alternatives to "Senator" and "ma'am" that were running through this brigadier general's head: Overheard at a Senate hearing y...
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Growing
“Could the next war be powered by potatoes?” So wonders Tina Casey in CleanTechnica, commenting on the U.S. military’s efforts to innovate and integrate alternative energy tec...
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Congress Strikes Back
The Washington Post: WASHINGTON -- Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-22 program got an unexpected lift Wednesday after House lawmakers approved $369 million to continue production of ...
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Old Dix & Co.
James Dao is now covering what is known as "the Jaffe beat" for the New York Times, examining things like the cultures of the services and the military removed from its combat...
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Why DC is such a weird town, explained through basketball
This has nothing to do with counterinsurgency, but it's a great piece of sports and political journalism: For people who don't spend much time in Washington, all this can be c...
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Funding IW
From Inside Defense: June 17, 2009 -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates is considering options to reshape the military that could squeeze up to $75 billion from current budget pl...
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Triage Live
The highly entertaining panel discussion of our new paper on Afghanistan and Pakistan can now be listened to via the CNAS website for those of you who could not attend CNASapa...
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Good news from the tribal areas... Seriously!
I missed this, but my eagle-eyed readers did not: DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A new Islamic militia leader has emerged in Pakistan to openly challenge al Qaida-affiliated war...
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More Cold Water
A friend of mine raised a good point regarding the Spiegel/VOA claim that 5,000 Hizballah footsoldiers were on the streets of Tehran. 1) Hizballah had approximately 1,200 full...
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Next Generation National Security Leaders
A new CNAS program, and a great opportunity for some of the under-35s who read this blog. Folks with "downrange" experience are especially encouraged to apply....
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Is Climate Change A Developing Country Problem?
Yesterday the White House released a major report (see video) produced by a consortium of 13 federal agencies organized by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The report,...