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Can Texting Help Afghanistan?

By | 06.11.10 | 11:41 am

Seriously, that’s the gist of a panel next week at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

The peace-building think tank wants to explore the lessons of SMS-based relief campaigns for victims of the Haiti earthquake and Pakistani military push against Taliban insurgents for the Afghanistan conflict. Both were heavily promoted More…

CNAS Continues its Occupation of the Obama Administration

By | 02.12.09 | 9:48 am

In November, I pointed out that the irregular warfare-heavy think tank known as the Center for a New American Security was basically President Obama’s shadow Pentagon. Well, it’s pretty much entirely out of the shadows. One of its co-founders, Michele Flournoy, was confirmed Monday as undersecretary of 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…