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Barno on Afghanistan; Exum still in his pajamas
Oh, this is ridiculous. My first day of work and it looks like a damn snow globe outside. Federal employees are supposed to arrive to work two hours late today, so taking my c...
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Lest anyone confuse KU-Mizzou with a basketball game
(That, of course, is John Brown. Holding a rifle and the National Championship trophy. I am unaware at this time if the original painting, in the Kansas state capitol, was s...
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Dear U.S. Army: Please stop threatening to kill your anthropologists
I came across this bizarre website accusing me of not being outspoken enough in defense of anthropologists who are threatened by the U.S. soldiers with whom they serve. I was ...
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NPR's Roxana Saberi Detained in Iran
We were introduced in DC by my friend Andrew Tabler several years ago. A brave journalist with an interesting personal story (Miss North Dakota 1997), Roxana has reported from...
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Counterinsurgency and the New Media
So a few weeks ago, when I posted my controversial "winners and losers" from the new Tom Ricks book, I asked why Tom had ignored the impact of the new media on operations in I...
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They still don't get it...
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) asked a very good and legitimate question at this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference:McConnell managed to draw a standing ovation w...
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Left is Right, Up is Down
And Tom Ricks is interviewed by The Daily Beast? Wherein he says Obama sounds like George Bush?* Why is Tina Brown confusing my sleet-addled mind by posting real reporting on ...
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Obama's Plan for Iraq ... and how we got there
Okay, enough navel-gazing. It's one thing for U.S. television news bureaus to ignore the Iraq War, but when we here at a blog "dedicated to following issues related to contemp...
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Abu Muqawama, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Pratt & Whitney are in 100% Complete Agreement
I returned home late last night and opened up yesterday's Washington Post before bed. On page A16, right across from Al Kamen's column, was another one of those full-page ads ...
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Hitchens in Beirut: Michael Totten Weighs In
As many of the blog's readers have pointed out, Michael Totten -- an actual eye witness to the ass kicking received by Christopher Hitchens in Hamra -- has posted an account o...
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Traveling...
...I'll be back this weekend....
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Thursday afternoon reading
A sampling of the open tabs that have collected in my fancy Google chrome browser: --The State Dept decides where SW Asia & the Gulf are (you know, exactly where you thoug...
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Press Conference with General Abdul Rahim Wardak, Minister of Defense, Afghanistan
In response to increased attacks from anti-government forces, President Barack Obama last week ordered the deployment of 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan by the summer. The a...
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Ashton Carter for AT&L? Really?
This was surprising. Ashton Carter, I thought, was a "nukes and strategy" guy. AT&L, as I discussed with my friend "Abu Comptroller" yesterday, is the job where it pays to...
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Sri Lanka: The Last Battle
A week or so ago, a good friend was complaining about the lack of any coverage on the blog of the increasingly successful counterinsurgency campaign waged by the government in...
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We are now experiencing technical difficulties...
Sorry for the lack of posts today. Stanford's internet server has been on the fritz, leading me to wonder whether this is the Silicon Valley or the Korengal Valley. P.S. In th...
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This is not a live-blog
There was, honestly, little of substance on matters concerning this readership. But the full transcript of Obama's speech tonight can be found here, and the amusing commentary...
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Lebanon's Palestinian Camps: Problem, Discussion, Recommendations
I feel bad for posting on top of Charlie's rather amusing State Department transcript (see below), but Crisis Group has a must-read report on Lebanon's Palestinian camps:Pales...
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Apropos of literally nothing
This from the NYT style manual blog: 1. We will now capitalize Marine and Marines when referring to individual members of the United States Marine Corps. Under the previous ...
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A Question from the Readership
I must say, I quite enjoyed the comments from yesterday's interview with Mitch Prothero. Mitch -- who studied in the great books program at St. John's (basically, the Western ...