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Below the Radar: Rising Tensions in the East China Sea
While there has been a lot of attention given to China’s territorial contests with its Asian neighbors in the South China Sea, just as important is the dispute between Japan a...
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Guest Post: Insha’Allah they learn something useful
Tim Mathews is a former Army Officer and newly-minted attorney who studies and occassionally lectures on the Afghan legal system. He's usually found on Twitter, and I'm glad t...
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Insha’Allah they learn something useful
A recent article in Armed Forces Journal (AFJ) (How to teach about Islam, Armed Forces Journal, July 2012) discusses the issue of how to teach our personnel about Islam. When ...
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My Mind on My Money, My Money On My Mind
A couple weeks ago, the United Arab Emirates made a most unusual acquisition: 842 Colombian soldiers. They're looking for at least a couple thousand more. What's going on is f...
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Moving to Cooler Temperatures
As we in the United States are struggling with massive heat waves, others are moving to cooler temperatures – including the Chinese. Last week, the Chinese icebreaker, Xue Lo...
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Guest Post: Drones and Disruptive Innovation
Jonathan Jeckell, a plans and operations officer at the Army Sustainment Command at Rock Arsenal, is one of my favorite Twitter interluctors. You see, Jonathan and I both love...
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On "George F. Kennan: An American Life"
I am catching up this summer with some of those big books that have been silently taunting me from my bookshelf this year. The first book I tackled was George F. Kennan: An Am...
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When to declare victory?
Peter Bergen recently put out an interesting piece recommending the United States declare victory against al Qaeda. He starts off by making the comparison, as many do, with th...
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An American Commitment in Afghanistan
The U.S. government took several steps over the weekend to reassure Afghans that America will not abandon their country once the NATO combat mission ends in 2014. Although the...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A with Matt Zeller
A few months ago, I read the memoir of a lieutenant who served in Afghanistan in 2008, which I argue had to have been the most frustrating year to fight in Afghanistan because...
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A Belated Birthday Present from our Turkish Friends
Yesterday, I caught up with some friends at IFRI* over lunch and scored an invitation to come hear the Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, speak later in the afternoon ...
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Paul Van Riper on Strategic Thinking and Operational Art
There's two things I eagerly await every summer: a new Batman movie and a new edition of Infinity Journal. There is much discussion of strategy scattered across the blogospher...
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Happy Fourth of July! (And even happier civil-military relations!)
First off, let me wish everyone out there a Happy Fourth of July. As a veteran of the conflicts in both Iraq and Afghanistan, let me take this opportunity to clear up a miscon...
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Happy Independence Day!
Happy 4th of July everyone! Enjoy fireworks, family, friends and good food today as you celebrate America's Independence Day. We'll be taking the rest of the week of and will ...
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Iranian Oil and the Politics of Economic Sanctions
There is a good debate underway at the National Journal’s Energy Experts blog this week on economic sanctions against Iranian oil. In particular, there’s an ongoing discussion...
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Deadly Derecho Storm Leaves Many Parts of East Coast Powerless
A deadly stretch of thunderstorms known as a derecho pummeled the Washington area Friday night and other parts of the mid-West and East Coast, leaving more than a dozen dead a...
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Airpower in Small Wars: S.S.D.D.
Last week, CJ Chivers fied a riveting briefing about airpower: It’s far from perfect, though when a modern Joint Terminal Attack Controller is working with a well-trained pil...
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Guest Post: For Israel, Domestic Issue Poses Challenges, Opportunities
I am in Paris, working on my French, reading a lot, and using up all my vacation time before I take a leave of absence from CNAS at the end of the summer to spend a year worki...
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If you thought the Dept. of State was bad in Afghanistan in 2009...
There are some pretty terrible horror stories in Rajiv Chandrasekaran's new book, but while reading the new John Lewis Gaddis biography of George F. Kennan, I learned that U.S...
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Economics, Security and Law of the Sea
This morning, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold its third hearing on the Law of the Sea Convention that will focus exclusively on the economic benefits of ratif...