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Good News / Bad News
I just heard that four NYT journalists have gone missing in Libya, but I can also report that Ghaith Abdul Ahad, a friend of mine who reports for the Guardian, has been releas...
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Q: Why Is Lebanon Drafting the U.N. No-Fly Resolution on Libya?
A: I suspect most of this blog's readers already know this, but charismatic Lebanese leader Musa Sadr disappeared while traveling to Libya in 1978. Musa Sadr, an Iranian-born ...
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The Hard Work of Combat
Someone once said -- I think it was Bernard Fall -- that the French were not so much outfought at Dien Bien Phu as they were out-engineered. I thought of that while reading t...
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Comment of the Day
The great Trudy Rubin, whose column I used to read while living in Philadelphia, weighed in on Egypt: Having recently returned from Cairo, I say thank you, thank you, for poin...
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While you weren't looking ...
... Saudi Arabia and the UAE more or less invaded Bahrain. Just thought you would want to know. The New York Times has assembled a really smart crew of scholars to weigh in on...
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Events from Around Town: How does Population Affect National Security?
Yesterday, the Wilson Center held a book launch for The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security with author Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba. Deputy Under Secretary of De...
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For Intervention in Libya: Two Views
It's not as fun to poke holes in arguments for military intervention in Libya when they are advanced by people like Anne-Marie Slaughter and Eliot Cohen, who should basically ...
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Monday Morning Open Thread: Wars and the Service Chiefs
Anyone who has been watching the war in Afghanistan for the past two years knows that ISAF, having focused on southern Afghanistan for the past 18 months, now aspires to shift...
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This Weekend’s News: After the Quake
The devastating 8.9 earthquake that struck Japan on Friday and the subsequent tsunami that crippled several of the island nation’s coast communities – even sweeping across the...
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The Order of Battle
Anthony Shadid, who has seen a war or two, from Libya: Only days ago, rebels were boldly promising to march on Surt, Colonel Qaddafi’s hometown, then on to Tripoli, where opp...
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Quote of the Day: "What Do You Pay Us For?" Edition
Boy, if I were an intelligence analyst working on North Africa right now, I would be steaming. Q: Hey, it's actually Jake Tapper. Just, Tom, if you could comment on -- DNI C...
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Stay classy, Michael Hastings! Part III
Well, hopefully this will end the furor over an ugly and now thoroughly discredited hit piece. In a more just world, Rolling Stone would conduct an internal investigation to d...
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Investigating American Muslims
We need to investigate radicalization in the United States. Peter King's hearings today, though, endanger U.S. counter-terrorism and counter-radicalization efforts in two ways...
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The Rebels Love Us, Right?
I was looking through the Sinjar documents (.pdf) today because I remembered (incorrectly, as it turns out) that Benghazi had sent more foreign fighters to Iraq than any other...
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Satellites You Need to Know: Climb Aboard the A-Train
Today we are kicking off a new occassional series, "Satellites You Need to Know," which, as you may expect, explores satellites that we think you should know. It's important t...
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China’s Natural Security for the Next Five Years
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivered a speech on China’s five year plan at the Eleventh Party Congress on Saturday. (The Wall Street Journal provided a transcript here.) His r...
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Brigitte Gabriel, the SLA, and Khiam
Here's a question for the editors of the New York Times: when you guys ran your profile of Brigitte Gabriel today, did your reporter not know of or just choose not to report o...
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In Asia, an Opportunity to Strengthen Long-term Relationships though Natural Resource Cooperation
China is experiencing one of the worst droughts in 60 years experts say, in part a consequence of the Asian giant’s insatiable appetite for energy and water resources that are...
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The Pale Blue Dot
Many thanks to the reader of this blog who pointed me toward this moving video of the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia set to Carl Sagan reading from "Earth: The Pale Blue Dot."...
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Wael Ghonim and Wadah Khanfar at TED2011
I'm still waiting to see and hear Stan McChrystal's talk....