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Read This Now: National Geographic
I recommend that if you're in an airport or have spare time to read whilst enduring the summer heat (or time at your desk to read it online), you should pick up the June Natio...
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Iran & the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Alex and I were both out at a thing Wednesday evening so we’re going to take it easy today and just give you all a little food for thought. I’ll call it my Ode to Will since ...
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Three Options for the President
Something very, very positive happened today in Washington, DC. Senior Republican legislators, to include Sen. John McCain, and Bush Administration national security specialis...
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Beyond First-Generation Biofuels
Meet Alex Stark, our new research intern. We sent her to an event yesterday, and she felt inspired to recap it as her very first post for the blog. She is a recent graduate of...
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To Talk or Walk in Afghanistan - Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles
Amongst the furore generated by Gen. McChrystal's slagging off of his bosses and colleagues in Rolling Stone Magazine, everyone seems to have missed the fact that Britain's hi...
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Firing McChrystal: Weighing the Risks
I have been struck by the degree to which a lot of smart friends are in disagreement about what should be done about l'Affair Rolling Stan. In some ways, the argument about wh...
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On Projections
Yesterday über-officemate Commander Herb Carmen sent us this Robert Samuelson column from yesterday’s Washington Post, which I had until that point missed. Samuelson provides...
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The narrative that wasn't there
Pakistani 1: "Western countries are trying to destroy Islam. They fear us more than the Chinese. We are the only people who have a system that challenges theirs. They know the...
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Rolling Stone
No, I have not read the Rolling Stone article on Gen. McChrystal. Yes, I was interviewed for it, but I don't think I said anything of consequence. The reporter was Michael Has...
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Trinquier vs. Saadi, 1970
My post mourning the death of Marcel Bigeard attracted some lively commentary, so I am going to up the Algeria ante by linking to this fascinating 1970 debate between Roger Tr...
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This Weekend’s News: Minerals in Afghanistan & Two Approaches to Considering Natural Security
Much has been said of last week’s big minerals-in-Afghanistan news. Most critiques of the timing of the news and of the many difficulties in producing these potential reserves...
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Increases in Food Prices Could Affect U.S. National Security Interests Abroad
“Agriculture has experienced a number of severe shocks in recent years with record high oil prices, commodity price spikes, food security fears and resultant trade restriction...
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Afghanistan: Graveyard of Assumptions? (Updated)
These past few weeks have brought a fresh torrent of bad news from Afghanistan: a governor in a key district assassinated, U.S. and allied operations in flux, Afghan leadershi...
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Real American Heroes
The blogs were abuzz yesterday about Gary Faulkner, the California man who has been trying to track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan: The current trip was roughly Mr. Faulkner...
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The President's Address and National Security
So the plan was that I was going to write on any security angles I perceived in President Obama’s address from the Oval Office on the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But the s...
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Journalist FAIL
I was not among those who criticized the article James Risen wrote about the $1 trillion mineral find in Afghanistan. I was content to fret about the conflict trap in which co...
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Pointing Policymakers to Water and Climate Challenges in Central Asia
Last week, the Water Matters @ Columbia blog at the Earth Institute at Columbia University had an interesting post on a project underway at the Columbia Water Center where res...
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Why $1 Trillion in Untapped Mineral Deposits Has Me Depressed
A host of readers sent me this article about Afghanistan's vast natural resource find, but Erin "Charlie" Simpson was the only one whose pessimism about the find matched my ow...
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This Weekend's News: Innovation
I am attending an all-day workshop tomorrow on how economic power, technology and innovation play into national security. The advance prep for the group includes about 125 pag...
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The Left and Afghanistan (Updated)
Michael Cohen has a great essay in The New Republic on the American Left and Afghanistan. Michael's own policy preferences cloud his essay somewhat, but his diagnosis of the p...