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Recruiting the Officer Corps
Gary Schmitt and Cheryl Miller have a really fantastic op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal that is, alas, password-protected on the Journal's website.* The money quote: Much ...
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Floods in Pakistan and the Importance of Natural Security
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned in my time at CNAS working with the Natural Security team, it’s that climate events and natural disasters around the world (along with i...
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Embedded with the Taliban
Some Norwegian idiot journalist has embedded with the Taliban and shot this incredible footage of an attack on a U.S. or allied convoy. These guys sound and act a lot like a U...
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Afghanistan: Graveyard of Risk
It will surprise very few people to know that Battleship and Risk sit on the communal tables outside our offices here at CNAS. Ganesh Sitaraman, hand pictured, pointed out to ...
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Success in Iraq? My View.
What constitutes success or failure in counterinsurgency campaigns is controversial and has sparked much informed (and uninformed) discussion in the policy and academic commun...
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The Real Costs of DOD Petroleum Dependence
Photo: Navy News Service/Tech Sgt. Cohen A. Young USAF Yesterday The Washington Post reported that US gasoline prices have hit an 8-month low. The article reports that “th...
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Quote of the Afternoon (Iraq Edition)
Here's a test for the readership: read the following quote, from Galula's Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958, and debate whether or not Iraq meets the conditions for victory a...
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How to Patronize
I like both Anatol Lieven and Tom Ricks and always listen to them both on matters related to Afghanistan, even when I disagree with them. (I currently disagree, for example, w...
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Quote of the Day (Crazy Guantanamo Stories Edition)
By last summer, staff were pointing to Butter Pecan flavored Ensure as popular with the chair-shackled captives. Flavor made no difference going down, one nurse explained, but...
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MDGs for the Already Developed World
Christine and Will are spending this week in Hamburg, Germany, where they will be leading a game simulation based on international climate change negotiations coming up this D...
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Quote of the Day (Transparency Edition)
It's very hard work to run an organization, let alone one that's constantly being spied upon and sued. Julian Assange, on why his organization does not publish donor informat...
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This Weekend's News: Another Side of the Same Stories
Crop failures during the 2005 food shortage in Niger, as compared to 2004. This year's crisis is predicted to be worse. Photo: NASA-Earth Observatory For the past few weeks, ...
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Defining the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq (Update)
Here's a fun project for the readership. This should keep you busy through the weekend. I was reading a book chapter by Stathis Kalyvas (.pdf) and came across his definition o...
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On Afghan Marksmanship
I saw this Wall Street Journal article on a Taliban sniper is the most-viewed article on WSJ.com. It's worth pointing out, then, that the myth of the great Afghan marksman is ...
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Master Debaters
My friend Mike Horowitz -- author of this great new book -- has a really funny, well, debate up on Slate with Mark Oppenheimer on high school and college debating. Some of you...
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As I told Lt. Gen. Barno this morning, "Sir, this proves we were winning when WE left."
Drew Conway was promoted to the faculty of New York University (uh, by the New York Times, at least), for these neat charts he helped make using the Wikileaks data. Visualis...
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Climate Risks: Lessons from 2010’s Extreme Weather
This post was originally published yesterday by the Climate Compass blog at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change where Dr. Jay Gulledge is Senior Scientist and Director of ...
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A Life Lived Well
I am in awe of and humbled by the life this man lived....
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In Iraq, What Are We Leaving Behind?
News this morning that a suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi Army recruiting center, killing 48 and wounding 129, comes weeks before the U.S. military prepares to drawdown troops...
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Collective Punishment for Corruption and Terrorism in Pakistan?
An article in the Financial Times this morning intimated that perceptions of both government corruption and support for militant groups are causing international donors to kee...