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Live Blogging DoD Roundtable with U.S. Navy CDR Matthew Ovios, Today 1500 EST
We will live blog a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable this afternoon at 3 p.m. EST with U.S.Navy CDR Matthew Ovios, commanding officer of the USS Ingraham. CDR Ovios will discuss th...
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Events from Around Town: China and Climate Security
It is always great to get out of the office and I was fortunate enough yesterday to get over to my old stomping grounds at the Wilson Center for an event on China and Climate ...
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Afghanistan and/vs. China
This may surprise some of you, but within the walls of 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., there is a pretty lively debate among the scholars and staff who work here about whether or not ...
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Diplomatic Genius from Pakistan
So my boss is in New York debating Ralph Peters, Pat Lang and Steve Clemons on Afghanistan and Pakistan. The latter are defending the motion "America cannot and will not succe...
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The Fourth Star: Greg Jaffe, David Cloud and a Free Glass of Wine
Attention, all readers of this blog: The fellows and staff of the Center for a New American Security are hosting a book party for Greg and David's excellent new biography of J...
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Storms, Teapots, etc.
I think Gen. McChrystal erred in talking publicly about the war in Afghanistan because he is a man who, constitutionally, cannot not tell the truth about his assessment of the...
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Pakistan Dispatch - Kerry who?!
Kerry Lugar is the talk of Islamabad. And as tempted as Londonstani was at first to assume everyone was referring to a new pop star rival to Britney it turns out Kerry Lugar i...
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News Update
Politico is reporting this morning on a $3 million dollar earmark to bring the rare earth mine at Mountain Pass, California back into full production. The mine, managed by Mol...
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Three Books on Afghanistan
It's important to be honest about what we do not know. As many of you are aware, I have an academic background in the language, cultures, politics and history of the Arabic-sp...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Peter Maass
Yesterday I had a great phone conversation with Peter Maass. I reviewed his new book Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil for the blog last week, and he was kind enough to...
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Pakistan Dispatch - Undercover in Islamabad
Londonstani has decamped to Pakistan for the coming weeks (and possibly months). Although, his assignment this time doesn't involve news reporting or undercover investigative ...
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How to Win in Afghanistan
Some tips, from Sunday's New York Times, from 10 smart people and one blogger....
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Minerals and Security: Issues and Sources
With the help of Spencer Ackerman giving a nod to our use of music video to add a small glimmer of personality to the Natural Security Blog on what could have been a rather ru...
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Echoes of domino theory
Not to be outdone by AM on the traveling front, Londonstani has spent the best part of 24 hours on planes flying around the Middle East. And, the one good thing about travelli...
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Sampler to UNAMA?
I read on Laura Rozen's blog that Larry Sampler is in line to replace Peter Galbraith in UNAMA. Discussion of Galbraith and his controversial exit aside, I think the world of ...
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The echos of Afghanistan
British politicians are fond of telling the public that fighting in Afghanistan prevents bombs going off at home. Considering that more than half the population wants the army...
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I don't know how to say this [in Hebrew], but I'm kind of a big deal [on the internet].
I'm blogging from Terminal Three in Ben Gurion Airport, where I left myself plenty of time to get through all the security checkpoints. The first time I visited Israel, in Dec...
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CNAS Global Domination Extends to Softball
I head back from Israel today and will no doubt arrive to email inboxes filled with unread messages. I will also return, though, to the home of the 2009 Think Tank Softball Le...
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Exum and Yon on Afghanistan
A friend from Chattanooga pointed out that an interview with me has been published on the PBS website. If any of you were curious as to my thoughts on Afghanistan and counteri...
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Weekly News Roundup: Food Security - the Other Headline
This week some of the most prominent natural security news focused on the much-anticipated release of climate legislation by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA...