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Weekly News Roundup: Thank You, Madame Chairwoman
This week the Senate’s version of the climate bill (pdf) received a series of hearings in the Committee on Environment and Public Works. The bill (S. 1733, commonly known as t...
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Photo of the Week: Because No One Wants to Read Too Much on Fridays
This photo shows the solar array at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, one of several energy projects we checked out this week while we're here at work on a few CNAS natural sec...
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From the Dept. of Poorly Chosen Historical Analogies
I interrupt my blogging hiatus to bring you the following report. Christopher Buckley, one of my favorite authors, read Matthew Hoh's letter and is now calling for us to withd...
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Wanted: Hebrew Reader
So there's this book by Moshe "Chiko" Tamir that I cannot read. It's an untranslated memoir about his service as an Israeli officer in southern Lebanon that is basically the I...
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Writing, Writing...
I'll be away from the blog today....
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A little different than I remembered it in '03...
Well, this looks ... awful....
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Events from Around Town: Strategic Energy Opportunities for the Department of Defense
Yesterday the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program hosted the Army Environmental Policy Institute’s 31st sustainability lecture on the Department ...
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Spotlight on the Hill: the Senate Climate Bill
As we near the December conference in Copenhagen, we are starting to see a flurry of activity around climate change in the United States. Yesterday, the Senate began to debate...
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Putting Matthew Hoh in Context ... and Asking Hard Questions of the Washington Post
A great American, sure, but a reader noticed this important comment posted by "gadstian" on the Washington Post's website at 11:50 yesterday morning. I am very disturbed by th...
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COIN at the Political Level
Yesterday, I wrote the following in an op-ed which ran in the Daily Beast: The Obama adminstration has, I believe, some leverage at the moment, which it could use to affect th...
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Cliff Lee!!!
That's all I have to say right now. Update: I vote Susan Finkelstein for Alumna of the Year....
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The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read This Week
Why, you ask? Because if this is true, and if the CIA is empowering Ahmed Wali Karzai at the same time in which NATO/ISAF is saying abusive local power-brokers are a threat to...
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If we've lost The Onion...
...have we lost America? (Warning: clicking on this link will lead you to genius.)...
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Two Things That Annoy Me
1. Yes, it might be true that NATO and Afghan troops outnumber insurgents 12-1. This is as irrelevant a statistic in guerrilla warfare as enemy body count. The only things wor...
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Where "rural" is too "urban"
When passing through Zabul Province this past summer, I got a brief from a smart U.S. Army officer with whom I had served in the 10th Mountain Division. Over the course of the...
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The Cloak, Dagger, and Climate Science
Back in September we highlighted the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) plan to launch a new agency apparatus dedicated to studying the implications of climate change on U.S....
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Crashing
While it is true I am still heartbroken from this weekend's loss, I am also crashing on a writing assignment and thus not posting much today. I have a lot of links I am going ...
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“Strategic” or “Critical?” Actually, Just Confusing
One of my recent posts mildly chastised an author for not strictly defining the difference between “strategic” and “critical” minerals. But as I looked further into language a...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Bombs and see-saws
Newspapers reported today that the F8 incident reported with much ensuing panic yesterday was a hoax. However, it wasn't long before the small sense of relief was overshadowed...
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Afghanistan, Big and Small
Thom is probably right that the broad support a counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan enjoys among NATO defense ministers adds a little pressure on the president and his a...