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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....
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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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Mullen on Drones
Pete Singer sent me a link to the Admiral Mullen's speech at Brookings, and I notice the quote I excerpted in yesterday's post was actually part of a larger quote relating to ...
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Schmidle on Sharif
I will be at a CNAS "off-site" meeting this afternoon, so you crazy kids are on your own. While wasting time this afternoon, though, check out Nick Schmidle on Nawaz Sharif in...
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Exclusive: JSOC Killed Benazir Bhutto! Uh...
Seymour Hersh, who has publicly distanced himself from the wack-job conspiracy theory -- promulgated by al-Manar and NewTV in Lebanon -- that the United States was behind the ...
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Guerrilla Warfare! With Gorrilas?
Ha! This quote made my day, even if I have no idea what Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) is talking about here:I’m going to be the sneaky little guy that pops up from behind the bush an...
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An Insurgency Ends
Just arrived back at the desk after a weekend away and discovered the over 200 unread email messages waiting for me. Apologies to anyone trying to get in touch with me -- it m...
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What Happens After COIN? The Emerging Sri Lanka Case
AM's already beaten me to the punch. (Not that I blame him, I have been absent. My org's firewall now blocks anything with the word "blog" in the URL, so I can't access there,...
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Rumsfeld's Peers on Rumsfeld
You guys have all read this Robert Draper piece on Rumsfeld, right? Just checking....
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Yes.
From the Brookings Institute today:“We cannot succeed in Afghanistan or anywhere else, but let’s talk specifically about Afghanistan, by killing Afghan civilians,” Admiral Mul...
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Reidel on the Rooskies, the Afghans and Us
What a coup for West Point's CTC Sentinel (.pdf) in getting Bruce Reidel -- the guy President Obama put in charge of reviewing his "Af-Pak" strategy -- to write a piece on the...
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Surging and Awakening
In the geekish circles in which I run, this Dexter Filkins review of The Gamble in The New Republic this week has generated some heated opinions. On the one hand, reading this...
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Special Abu Muqawama Interview: P.W. Singer
Gang, I am in East Tennessee this weekend for a wedding, so to keep the readership amused, I give you Peter Singer from the Brookings Institute. Pete is the author of the exce...
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9 out of 10 Operators Agree: "The Pope" is the Right Man for the Job
One of the most experienced Afghanistan hands I know had this to say about General McChrystal in an email to me yesterday:All the heavy breathing about him being A Killer Man ...
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Talkin' Afghanistan
I just taped an episode of To The Point with David Ignatius, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), John Mueller, and some Canadian journalist who talked the most sense of any of us. You s...
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Counterinsurgency Reading List Updated
For the first time in more than a year, I have updated our famous Counterinsurgency Reading List. Gone is the section on political Islam and Islamist violence, while added are...
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Twofer
If there is a reason to really lament the demise of U.S. newspaper reporting, it is on days like this when we have C.J. Chivers reporting from Afghanistan for the New York Tim...