- Time Magazine and CNAS Team for "Command Post" (Updated)
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... Time and the Center for a New American Security have just launched Command Post , a series of ... to our community. Update 2 : Time Partners with CNAS, But is it Good for Journalism? By Allen McDuffee at The Washington ...
Blog entry - Jul 12 2011 - 9:43am - 16 comments - 0 attachments
- CNAS Releases Afghanistan Policy Brief
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... CNAS Releases Afghanistan Policy Brief by Andrew Exum After eight ... From the mouth of the TB itself, our biggest fears of a new AQ safe-haven in AFG aren't too solid. If we do our mission in AFG and ...
Blog entry - Oct 20 2009 - 3:00pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- How Afghanistan Ends
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... understandable and even acceptable as long as there is no new catastrophic attack on the US. This seems to me to be a short-sighted ... Jim Gant declared it too hard and said focus on tribes. CNAS and the Barno/Exum team have declared it too hard and said focus on the ...
Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments
- Killing Your Way to Control
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... that were in place, then we enabled the establishment of new governments that naturally have a lot of opposition in the bid for power. ... more pressing crisis with the budget crisis. None the less CNAS would love your logic, they'll use it to insist we continue to drain our ...
Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments
- General McChrystal Recalled (Updated)
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... Fate in Limbo as Obama Cites Poor Judgment - New York Times President Obama's top commander in Afghanistan flew to ... General McChrystal Recalled (Updated) I wonder how CNAS will respond...this should be interesting. Re: General McChrystal ...
Blog entry - Jun 23 2010 - 5:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments
- COIN Toss
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... The Cult of Counterinsurgency - Michael Crowley, The New Republic . On the night of December 1, shortly after Barack Obama ... Bill C: Why would these closely linked entities (Nagl, CNAS, Democratic Party, Obama Administration) seek to transform whole ...
Blog entry - Jan 4 2010 - 12:54pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments
- COIN – Now we see that it failed. But that was obvious before we started (when will we learn?)
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... by “tintin”, an Ivy League ROTC cadet. http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2008/05/warrior-king.html Esp note Col ... major effort. I do not and those planning adventures of a new and similar kind really ought to consider that aspect. I got to tell ...
Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 7:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments
- COIN Metrics: What Not to Measure
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... and thinking is broke. Yet that very theory has shaped a New American Way of War and has seduced analysts like Ricks into believing it ... Kilcullen co-authored the "Triage" study at Nagl's CNAS that included a chapter on "metrics" that was almost a punchline, not a ...
Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments
- CNAS Twofer on the Future of the Force
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... CNAS Releases Two Working Papers on the Future of the Force (CNAS Press Release - 17 December 2009). The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released today two important working papers as ...
Blog entry - Dec 17 2009 - 4:00pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Win, Learn, Focus, Adapt, Win Again
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... worked in those places and then adapting to whatever the new place will be. And there is always a new place. It is better to go into ... think an argument could be made now that John's think tank CNAS is promoting old ideas that supported the surge (because it sort of worked ...
Blog entry - Apr 9 2011 - 5:48pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments


