devilanddevelopment

Involved w/ public policy for stability operations and development.

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DOD and AFRICOM still fumbling with humanitarian programs in Africa http://tiny.cc/q1i10.

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Pashtuns and Oath Keepers - Why people fight stabilization efforts: http://tiny.cc/68rzd

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Pirates and Somali insurgents don't play nice: http://tiny.cc/8pk4h

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Stimson Center post on how to save money in the Department of Defense acquisition budget: http://tiny.cc/k5l7z

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Fabulous Fab and the challenge of making capital work to fight poverty: http://tiny.cc/rkkoc

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Bureaucracy and economic development (and yes, Afghanistan) - http://tiny.cc/l5prl

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Balancing the national security pie - what counts? http://tiny.cc/eyh01

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Obama strategy may look like a camel, but it's the right one. Here's why: http://tiny.cc/gDoir

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Development and the national security narrative: How long? http://tiny.cc/kIuOi

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IRI Pakistan survey - a mixed bag. http://tiny.cc/e89HU

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Building Afghan intel capacity, or contractor wallet capacity? http://tinyurl.com/y9df7b8

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Why should we care about governance capacity building, and why do we fail? Look at Afghanistan. http://tinyurl.com/y9fs7w4

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FP's The Cable says Gen. Jones expanding NSC chairs to lower levels. How decisive will this be?

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President Obama’s Presidential Policy Directive – 1. Gen Jones has got control of NSC/PC and DC, but Interagency Policy Comm up for grabs

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Nearly 50% increase for International Affairs Budget in the President's Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2010, released yesterday.

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Pincus wrong on DOD's Roles and Missions recs. QRMR recs discrete interagency funds for stability ops, not unified nat sec budget, per PNSR.

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DOD making play to render State's fledgling Civilian Response Corps irrelevant? DoDD 1404.10. www.dtic.mil/whs/directives.

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Rumored US support for Swat deal interesting because 1)indicates how bad Pakistan sit, 2)new US diplomatic skill in recognizing opportunity.

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DeYoung article on Obama's NSC mentions Jones push for common regional approach for all US Gov. Flournoy at CSIS's BGN pushed in 2004.

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*Colombia. Good lord Twitter is evil. Columbia was my grad school alma mater, so let's write it off as habit.