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Smart People React to Obama’s Afghanistan-Pakistan Speech

By | 12.01.09 | 11:00 pm

One of the joys of Internet journalism is that when a piece is too long to incorporate every intelligent perspective from smart analysts, you can just peel some off and put it on the blog. So here are a few reactions I couldn’t fit into my wrap More…

What Next for Afghanistan and Pakistan?

By | 06.11.09 | 12:18 pm

Nate Fick — whom Center for a New American Security chairman Richard Danzig announced this morning as the next CNAS CEO; he’s barely in his 30s — and Andrew “Abu Muqawama” Exum are talking about their new paper on Afghanistan and Pakistan. I blogged about that paper More…

The End of ‘An Economy Of Force’ Mission in Afghanistan?

By | 06.11.09 | 11:34 am

“Success equals leadership plus strategy plus resources” said retired Lt. Gen. David Barno about Afghanistan. Although he doesn’t say it himself, he had the first element, as the former U.S. commander there from 2003 to 2005, but never the other two. He thinks that the confirmation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal More…

CNAS Has Your Af-Pak Benchmarks/Metrics in a Brand New Paper

By | 06.03.09 | 5:08 pm

After initially promising to come up with benchmarks for judging the success or shortcomings of its Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy — the term preferred by the administration, I understand, is “metrics,” which I’m cool with — the Obama administration has yet to come up with any, and has resisted More…

Shadow-Pentagon Think Tank Releases New AfghaniPakistan Policy Paper

By | 01.23.09 | 12:50 pm

Remember the Center for a New American Security, the counterinsurgent-heavy defense think tank that used to be run by Michele Flournoy and Kurt Campbell before they became, respectively, undersecretary of defense for policy and assistant secretary of state for East Asia? Several other scholars at the think More…