Articles & Multimedia
Showing 1701-1720 of 3123 Publications
-
Data and Natural Security
As countries battle a wave food shortages, trying to ensure supplies and qualm domestic fears, the consequences of food insecurity are growing increasingly vivid these days. P...
-
The Lebanese Bernie Madoff
My hosts here in Beirut have written and photographed the best English-language account thus far of Salah Ezzedine, the man being described as the Lebanese Bernie Madoff. Alth...
-
The Price of a Scoop
Wow. Tunku Varadarajan asks some really good questions about the rescue of Stephen Farrell: That said, let us put moral questions to one side and ask what--now--the duty of Th...
-
RIP, Jed
...
-
5 Questions with Someone Interesting
Yemen is becoming one of the most closely watched countries in the Middle East; ranked 18th in Foreign Policy’s “Failed State Index.” And one of the issues that we have been c...
-
Reading Old Magazines: “The World’s Resources I—The Lean Years”
The energy shocks of the 1970s caused many Americans to rethink energy in fundamental ways. The October 1973 OPEC oil embargo proved just how heavily U.S. energy supplies reli...
-
Rock on! - Pakistani style
Sometimes, Pakistan just rocks. I don't mean the landscape, the people or the food. I don't even mean the awesome contradiction of watching poor parents drop their kids off at...
-
The human side of anti-COIN in Afghanistan
If you still don't get why population-centric COIN is a good idea, let the Guardian's Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's report from Kunduz enlighten you. If you live in a country with troop...
-
Weekly News Roundup: the Many Ways of Water
This week, water is the big theme in natural security news. From water shortages in Iraq and Kenya, to flooding in Turkey and North Korea—some of it deliberate—the news proved...
-
11 September 2009
Eight years ago at this time in the morning, I was in the middle of a long run with my understrength platoon of infantry at Fort Drum. An hour later, I would be sitting in the...
-
London calling...
If the AM blog was a soap, this would be the point where a long disappeared character descends the stairs and everyone gasps. In explanation, the bemused character tells every...
-
London's 9/11
About an hour ago, Londonstani made a dramatic return to the Abu Muqawama blog. Unfortunately, due to technical issues (ie. his inability to work out the ways of the new websi...
-
I Bet the Marines Met Their Quotas, Though
Eli Lake was asking me the other day whether or not we had been defeating al-Qaeda these past eight years. I replied that I thought we had not been "beating" al-Qaeda, per se,...
-
Time to Call a Krieg a Krieg
If you can get past the firewall or find a paper copy of the Financial Times today, do so in order to read Constanze Stelzenmüller's op-ed on what happened in Kunduz and the e...
-
Reading Old Magazines: “To Prevent a World Wasteland: A Proposal”
This week’s edition of Reading Old Magazines takes us back to the dawn of the international environmental governance debate. Writing for the April 1970 issue of Foreign Affair...
-
Damn you, subtitles! You're never there when I need you!
I can't speak Hebrew, but I can't wait to see the latest Israeli film to explore the troubled invasion and occupation of Lebanon....
-
The Best Excuse
As Josh Foust pointed out in the comments of the below post, the New York Times has some of the very best coverage of the war in Afghanistan because it employs smart, experien...
-
A Freed Reporter -- and Blogging Ethics
So early this morning, a New York Times reporter taken captive in Afghanistan was freed by ISAF commandos. (His interpreter, Sultan Munadi, was killed in the rescue attempt, a...
-
Much Ado About Oil
In the pages of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy this past month, the country’s leading energy experts have been debating the future of oil, the most important drivers of th...
-
Laura Rozen Moves to Politico...
...and her first post is on The Little Bi-Partisan Thank Tank That Could. But she also has a post on the very good civ-mil action plan developed between the U.S. military and ...