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Freefall in the Emirates
They kept saying they had not been affected by the current crisis, but evidence -- both anecdotal and economic -- is piling up:With Dubai’s economy in free fall, newspapers ha...
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Tom Ricks Book Launch, The Gamble
February 12, 2009 - The Center for a New American Security was thrilled to host CNAS Senior Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks in an event to release...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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Tom Ricks on the Daily Show
I was out drinking at Kelly's Irish Times last night with several of the brightest young security studies scholars that I know and thus missed Tom Ricks on The Daily Show. (I ...
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More Thoughts on Kabul
Kip (remember Kip?) wrote in to offer comment on yesterday's post:I understand the emotional underpinning of your reaction to today's attack in Kabul and the need for urgency ...
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Greatest. Headline. Ever.
The Sun is the most effective instrument of what passes for allied information operations. That's really sad. (Thanks, Mitch.)...
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Why worry? They're probably just hitting on girls at the mall.
If you haven't been scared to death recently, by all means click on this link (.pdf). 11 of these dudes were in Gitmo. The Saudis are asking for help finding these guys. For t...
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God Bless Australia
The 31-year-old, who was in the water with a police diver, managed to punch the shark a few times and then swim to a safety boat nearby....
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The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
February 10, 2009 - In his new book out in stores February 10, CNAS Senior Fellow Thomas E. Ricks documents the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005. Using hundreds of...
By Michael J Zubrow & Thomas E. Ricks
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Really?
Did Tom Ricks really just describe David Kilcullen as "the Crocodile Dundee of counterinsurgency" on NPR? Because everyone knows Dave is the Shane Warne of counterinsurgency. ...
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The F-22 as Stimulus
Those of you who still read the paper copy of the Washington Post in the morning could not have helped but notice the full-page color advertisement for the F-22 in today's fro...
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Imagine 400 Abu Muqawamas
Look, this is all well and good, but before you start filling the ranks of our nation's officer corps with smart-ass Ivy Leaguers, I suggest you check with some of my former c...
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Waltz (Not Kenneth)
Yesterday, I went to see Waltz with Bashir. It was, as expected, pretty amazing. The entire audience stayed in their seats at the end to watch the credits. I myself had troubl...
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An Open Letter to Tom Ricks
Dear Tom, Stop saying the surge worked militarily but failed politically. If it failed politically, it failed militarily. A better way of expressing what I think you are tryin...
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Tone? A question for the readership.
Anyone who has read what I write in print about defense policy knows that it's pretty bland and serious. (Examples are here and here and here.) The way I blog, by contrast, is...
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Roundtable on Afghanistan: Panelist David Kilcullen
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Roundtable on Afghanistan February 5, 2009 - SEN. KERRY: Well, this first roundtable of the round-rectangular table of the Foreign Relations...
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Fraud, Waste and Abuse
Hooray, contractors! Remember, kids: the free market is always more efficient than a government agency. So it's a good thing we out-sourced the most important national foreign...
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Gian Gentile versus Abu Muqawama, Round 582
I assume most of you have seen Gian Gentile's latest piece, in Foreign Policy. He takes a series of statements regarding defense policy and then offers a short argument in fav...
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The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
With a historian's sweep, the unparalleled access of a New York Times White House correspondent and an ability to explain complex dilemmas in a gripping narrative, Sanger&...
By David Sanger
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Abu Muqawama will be named PDAS for trash-talking tomorrow
The appointment of Michèle Flournoy, while expected, is key. Seriously, can you believe that once upon a time, Doug Feith held this position?Subject: President-elect Obama ann...
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Abu Muqawama for War Czar!
The following is an honest-to-goodness conversation that just took place between me and my mother in her kitchen: "Mom, do you think gays have the right to be angry with Obama...