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Series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman explores a circle of counterinsurgency thinkers as they rise in influence and prominence in the U.S. military.
PART ONE: The Colonels and ‘The Matrix’
A group of young thinkers has triggered a simmering debate about how far the military should go in embracing counterinsurgency.
PART TWO: A Famous Enigma
An ascending band of counterinsurgent [...]
SIDEBAR: The Story of Orphan Uranium Mine
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Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. — Surrounded by a chain-link fence posted with signs warning of dangerous radiation levels, the abandoned Orphan uranium mine sits on the Grand Canyon’s south rim, three miles from the park’s famous El Tovar Hotel. Nearly 40 years after one of America’s top-producing uranium mines was closed [...]
GardaWorld Iraq, Baghdad Security Statistics 7/30/08
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Sidebar: Endangered Species Exemption
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Sen. John McCain’s 2003 vote to exempt Fort Huachuca from a key provision of the Endangered Species Act was contrary to his usual advice to fellow members of Congress. He is known to tels colleagues that they should not give special protections to a local military base if it faces closure.
Rep. Rick [...]
States turn down US abstinence education grants
WASHINGTON (AP) — Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the states are still in, and two more say they are leaving.
Some $50 million has been budgeted for this year, and financially strapped states [...]
TWI Boards Campaign Plane
WASHINGTON — The national news Web site, The Washington Independent, jetted to the Midwest this week. Its senior political reporter, Sridhar Pappu, boarded Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign plane on Sunday. TWI will continue covering the election from the campaign trail — and the air — joining the press corps on both Obama’s and Sen. John [...]
VIDEO: TWI Aboard Obama Plane
Somewhere between Detroit and Washington, Sen. Barack Obama had an impromptu press conference with reporters traveling with him on the campaign trail. The Washington Independent’s politics reporter Sridhar Pappu catches Obama discussing U.S. oil reserves.
Lieberman E-Mail Announcing ‘Citizens for McCain’
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To: Fellow McCain Supporters
From: Senator Joe Lieberman
Date: June 5th, 2008
Today, I asked Senator McCain if I could create and chair a new grassroots organization, "Citizens for McCain."
Citizens for McCain is an organization within the McCain campaign for people who put country [...]
STATE OF PLAY: Bush on U.S. Troops in Iraq
<p>Here at The Washington Independent, we’ve decided to track how a top story of the day is played in major publications around the Web and in print. We’re kicking off this feature, which we call "State of Play," with a collection of headlines on George W. Bush’s speech about U.S. troops in Iraq. Check it [...]
