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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl—a veteran of both Operation Desert...
By John A. Nagl
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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Fick signed up for the Marine Corps Officer Candidates School after receiving a B.A. from Dartmouth in 1999 because he wanted a challenge. He got one. He made it through the s...
By Nathaniel C. Fick
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This Man's Army: A Soldier's Story from the Front Lines of the War on Terrorism
Born into a family with a long history of military service dating back to the Revolutionary War, Andrew Exum enrolled in Army ROTC to pay for his Ivy League education....
By Andrew M. Exum
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Colin's New Job
Colin Kahl -- who, now that he is important, will likely never re-visit his friends on this blog -- is movin' on up:DoD: Colin Kahl, a professor at GeorgetownUniversity and se...
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Ben Fitzgerald (and some other dude) on Transitional Law Enforcement
As much as we love him, Dave Kilcullen is only this blog's second most-favorite Australian. Our favorite we never get to write about because he never publishes anything. Today...
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The Climate for Climate Change in the QDR
Congress basically defined global climate change as a national security issue in the Defense Authorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-181). That Act required the Department o...
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PG&E takes Chamber of Commerce to the Woodshed
“Pacific Gas and Electric considers climate change to be among the most serious issues ever for our company, our country, and the world.” With those words, Peter Darbee, the C...
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Top 5: Exporters of Rare Earth Elements to the United States
Today we’re starting a semi-regular series called “Top 5.” You may be asking “Top 5 what?” We will be periodically examining some general background of the larger issues we an...
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Best Classroom Presentation Ever
This may seem a little incongruous today given the terrible news out of Texas. But as our hearts go out to the families of the victims there, maybe this can serve as an antido...
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Stuck in the middle with you? Threading the needle between Moselle and Bacevich on Stablization in Afghanistan
Tyler Moselle, a smart and capable researcher based at Harvard's Carr Center, has a bizarre op-ed in today's Financial Times in which he warns that counterinsurgency not be co...
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Learning Lessons in Afghanistan, from Tokyo
Last week I spent a few days in Tokyo at a symposium hosted by the University of Tokyo on the role of natural resources and infrastructure in post-conflict peacebuilding. The ...
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Read This Now: America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation
The National Academies Press recently released an overview and summary of “America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation,” a study by the National Research Council pu...
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It’s Budget Week Part 3: Climate Change
One question has persisted for me with most every reporter I’ve spoken with in the past few weeks: what will the administration do with regard to climate change in the budget?...
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Military Intervention: A Checklist of Key Considerations
Col. (Ret.) John Collins spent 30 years (and three wars) as an officer in the U.S. Army and then another 25 years as a researcher for the Congressional Research Service (CRS)....
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Natural Security News, Vietnam Edition
As you know, Christine Parthemore is traveling in East Asia where she is conducting research for our South China Sea project. She’s in Vietnam today, and she has put together ...
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On Biofuels, Administration Says Go Big or Go Home
Yesterday, the Obama administration made a huge investment in U.S. energy security by announcing that the Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest $510 million ...
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This Weekend’s New: Remembrance and Resiliency
It was an emotional weekend for most as the nation reflected on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. There was widespread coverage as one can imagine. I was parti...
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Read This Now: Quadrennial Technology Review
I was riding my bike on Ohio Drive near West Potomac Park on Sunday and saw the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Solar Decathlon, which reminded me that DOE just published its fir...
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Events from Around Town: National Petroleum Council Report: Prudent Development of North America's Oil & Gas Resources
Yesterday, the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) hosted key members of the National Petroleum Council (NPC) to discuss its recently released report “Prud...