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Noe on Lebanon Policy (Updated)
My friend Nick Noe has a new paper, readily downloadable from the Century Foundation (.pdf), arguing for a new direction in U.S. policy toward Lebanon. I read a draft of the p...
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The Economist on Kilcullen and Ricks
The Economist reviews books by two of my colleagues at CNAS, Tom Ricks and Dave Kilcullen (who, to be fair, have been friends and mentors for much longer than the two weeks I'...
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The Islamist – book review
Ed Husain’s The Islamist was published in 2007, and since then it has become probably the most referred to work so far on radicalisation in Britain. There was a point last yea...
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What does the Continuity IRA have in common with the U.S. Marine Corps?
Okay, I will admit that I had never even heard of the Continuity IRA until yesterday. (So many forms of the IRA: the IRA, the PIRA, the RIRA, the OIRA, the anti-treaty IRA ......
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Craig Mullaney on the Daily Show
*/ I don't what Craig is talking about here. I got through Ranger School mostly by being a smart-ass and through my ability to walk ad infinitum. Mostly, though, through smart...
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Oh, great
I don't worry about the guys whose numbers Martin McGuiness and Gerry Adams have on their cell phones. I worry about the guys whose numbers they don't have on their cell phone...
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Abu Muqawama's Taste in Whiskies
Some clarification is in order. While it is true that I do enjoy Bushmills and actually have a bottle of it here, in my office, I feel the need to identify my very favorite wh...
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Does this qualify as "Army Strong?"
I went to Craig's book-signing last night and then retired with Craig and some friends to an Irish pub a mile down the road. I ended up sitting across from this guy who had ob...
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If anyone was looking for a definition of "unconventional warfare"...
The U.S. Navy is defenseless against semi-naked, trash-talking Chinese: Maritime experts were given a rare glimpse of the underlying capabilities of the Chinese navy on Sunda...
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Gallieni --> Galula --> Petraeus
Hang around this blog long enough and you will hear us talk a lot about not only David Galula and Roger Trinquier but also the earlier generation of French theorists -- Lyaute...
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Greg Jaffe to the Washington Post
This was leaked a few days ago, but one of the nicest men I know, Greg Jaffe, will replace Tom Ricks at the Washington Post. I cannot think of a better replacement. Greg is as...
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This. Is. Genius.
Looking for a good history of the Second World War? Like all others, this one focuses too much on Western Europe and gives the United States too much credit. Otherwise, it is ...
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It's Not About Defense. It's About Jobs. Period.
Again, the president has a bigger problem with his own party here than he does with Republicans. All I am asking is that we move these programs out of the defense budget and i...
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Cohen on Hizballah
Roger Cohen gets things a little off in his column today on why we should initiate contacts with the "political wing" of Hizballah. First off, who is this "political wing?" Do...
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But when he does, he reads Abu Muqawama
I've got $20 and a shot of Bushmills for the first White House staffer who provides evidence that Barack Obama has read this blog: Q: Other than The New York Times. Do you re...
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Breaking News: The Real IRA Are Still a Bunch of %$#@ing Idiots
There was some good news, though, to come out of Northern Ireland today: Speaking earlier today before the claim of responsibility, the Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, called ...
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And now, your Sunday reading...
1. Pentagon's Unwanted Projects in Earmarks (Washington Post)Guess who is funding the infernal F-22 over the objections of the Pentagon's senior leadership? The evil Republica...
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Kilcullen on Bacevich on Kilcullen
Dave is ... not happy:I was a little nonplussed by Andrew Bacevich’s review of my recent book, The Accidental Guerrilla (Oxford University Press, 2009). Mr Bacevich is a highl...
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How about we use poppy production? Oh, wait...
Obviously, I have already read the damning 318-page report on the intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iraq released by RAND (.pdf) and authored by Russ Glenn and Jamie ...
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Tennessee = Lebanon
I returned to Tennessee from Lebanon at the beginning of December and thought I was ... back in Lebanon. My congressman, Zach Wamp (McCallie '76), had plastered pictures of hi...