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Sois belle et vote lis le FT
The Financial Times has really been devoting a lot of time to Lebanon in advance of next weekend's elections -- more so than any other Western English-language newspaper I fol...
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Ghaith in the Mog
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, a native of Baghdad, watched his hometown spiral downward into bloody chaos from 2003 until 2007. But when he visited Mogadishu, even he was unprepared for ...
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How We Know It's Getting Worse in Pakistan
The new report on Afghanistan and Pakistan that I helped put together here at CNAS will have an entire section devoted to metrics for following the President's strategy in Afg...
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Dogs and cats, living together. Mass hysteria!
Galrahn blogs on Kilcullen. What's next, me blogging on naval tactics? (Hey, I am reading Brodie right now.)...
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Black Rangers
I missed this book review from the Sunday Washington Times on the U.S. Army's all-black Ranger unit during the Korean War. More on the unit can be found here....
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Abu Muqawama is ...
... still in shock Manchester United couldn't put one friggin' goal past Barcelona's patchwork defense....
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POMED on Egypt
Pity the Project on Middle East Democracy, a well-meaning group of young(ish) scholars and advocates dedicated to pressing U.S. policy in the Middle East to support for democr...
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"You certainly do remind me of Adolf Hitler"
I have a rule. As soon as someone invokes Nazi Germany to bolster their argument about anything (not related to genocide, of course), I stop reading. So if David Brooks said a...
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Neo-Con Two-fer!
Man, the speed with which the neo-cons can write! One day after the North Korean nuclear test, the Washington Post and the New York Times feature commentary from Robert Kagan ...
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Are we not nerdy enough?
Dave Kasten, a longtime reader of this blog, is asking over at Attackerman whether or not we have lost our academic focus.But I'm not sure that the same hunger exists for read...
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Lunch with Casey
I made only my second trip to the Pentagon today to have lunch with General George Casey and about seven other defense policy wonks and a few journalists. I was probably the y...
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Gates: The Taliban Have the Mo
My man Yochi Dreazen (C '99) has just been cold interviewin' the Secretary of Defense lately. Here is the SecDef on weapons cuts, and here he is on Afghanistan.American public...
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Der Spiegelgate
That's what Qifa is calling this brouhaha about Hizballah killing Hariri. (It was Colonel Muqawama? And I thought it was JSOC!) I'm no friend of Hizballah, but this article do...
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Fallen on the Field of Honor
I can't be sure, of course, but I would guess my readership is pretty near the last group of U.S. readers on the internet who need to be reminded of this day and what it means...
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Now that's a scandal!
The Guardian:Sensitive files detailing the extra marital affairs, drug taking and use of prostitutes by very senior officers in the RAF have been stolen, raising fears within ...
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Learning from the LTTE
Mia Bloom: But the Tigers' legacy remains intact. Their perfection of suicide bombings, their recruitment of women and children, their innovation in IEDs, have been emulated ...
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Major Junior Promoted!
One of this blog's all-time favorites, Major W. Thomas Smith Jr. -- affectionately known as "Major Junior" to the journalist community in Beirut -- has apparently been promote...
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Biden in Beirut II: Parsing the Speech (Updated)
Today, in Beirut:VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: President -- President Suleiman, thank you very much for your gracious welcome. I do bring greetings on behalf of President Obama. As yo...
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Primacy, holla
Realists everywhere are venting in their faculty lounges:“We will maintain America’s military dominance and keep you the finest fighting force the world has ever seen.”...
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No, that is not what I wrote.
Okay, misquoting me because of my indecipherable accent is one thing. Misquoting something I have written is another. An alert reader catches Tim Heffernan: Here's what Heffe...