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Pakistan update
Big time attack in Rawalpindi today, where Londonstani went for eid prayers a couple of days ago. The BBC is reporting 32 dead in an attack on a mosque. People are calling rel...
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Abu Muqawama Sells Out! (UPDATED)
Oh, for goodness sake. Nathan Hodge starts by asking some fair questions about where defense and foreign policy think tanks get their money. (And has a kind word or two for th...
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Events from Around Town: A Double Feature
Michael McCarthy reports from the New America Foundation event on Minding the Gap: Where Will President Obama's Energy and Climate Policies Take Us in Four to Eight Years? Yes...
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Bucking Conventional Wisdom: The Top Five Energy-Poor Middle Eastern Countries
The Middle East is rightly seen as a center of global energy supplies and production, hosting several of the world’s top petroleum and natural gas giants. But, as it turns out...
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Reading Old Magazines: “Enviro-intelligence: The CIA Goes Green”
This week’s Reading Old Magazines returns to another topic I have been researching lately in conjunction with our Lost in Translation project and sparked by the recent news th...
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Irregular Warfare Reading List
I like to think our counterinsurgency reading list is pretty good, too, but this one, from the U.S. Army War College, is really comprehensive. (Thanks, Ross.) IWnov09...
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This Weekend’s News: India, beyond the Party Crashers
This Thanksgiving weekend, with newspapers light on news and heavy on ads, the biggest story was clearly the crashing of the White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister...
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Reading Old Magazines: “Natural Gas Imports by South Asia: Pipelines or Pipe Dreams?”
Energy security is often grounded in political concerns here in the United States, and it is of course unsurprising that other countries factor their domestic politics into ec...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Kelly Sims Gallagher
Recently, I had the chance to correspond with Kelly Sims Gallagher, an Associated Professor of Energy and Environment Policy at the Fletcher School, where she covers energy po...
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This Weekend’s News: Climate Science Exposed!!!
The sensational stories of the weekend that really got me thinking were the countless news reports that hackers hacked more than 1,000 emails by prominent climate scientists a...
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Spies and Journalists in Pakistan
A story has been rumbling on in Pakistan for a couple of weeks now that just plain refuses to go away. The daily newspaper, the Nation, published an article on Nov 5 claiming...
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Public Service Announcement
Allow me to re-introduce myself: My name is Andrew Exum, and I have edited and authored the "Abu Muqawama" blog since February 2007. After much deliberation and consultation, ...
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Pakistan Dispatch: A Tale of Two Talibans
Is there really a difference between the Taliban in Pakistan and the Taliban in Afghanistan? The question divides the Pakistani and American governments as well as analysts an...
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Lady Sky
The New York Times profiles one of the great counterinsurgents of the contemporary era ... and a great friend and mentor to this blogger. RARELY does the hulking commander of ...
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Pakistan's last refuge
On the continuing theme of "what Pakistanis think" on various issues, an article in The Nation (a newspaper mostly known for calling out American journalists as spies and forc...
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Quote of the Day: Thierry Henry Edition
"After many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport and learned it in the RUA." -- Albert Camus, Goalke...
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Hahahaha! These guys are straight out of Hogan's Heroes!
Is this story for real?! I never thought Iraqi prisoners could be so freaking awesome. These guys should all be pardoned: BAGHDAD - It seems that the Brett Favre-Green Bay Pac...
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Reasons why the Israeli football (soccer) team shouldn't play its neighbours
If two Arab countries can produce this much anger towards each other.. "Riot police in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, quelled a violent demonstration near the Algerian embassy i...
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Lewis Millet, Dead at 88
What. A. Legend. “I went from Army deserter to colonel,” he said. “I served in two armies, in three wars — in Africa, Europe and Asia.” He said he had met presidents, “had my ...
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The Game is Rigged
Did any of you see this? FIFA needed both France and Portugal in this summer's World Cup, and both were facing playoff games after failing to qualify in the group stages. It w...