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Magical thinking in America’s Afghanistan Joshua Foust/ The Hill As the war in Afghanistan moves into its final stages, there are a growing number of news stories about the fraud and waste of the war in Afghanistan. Most of these focus on the wastefulness of aid...

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Push in Congress to ban biofuels in military has big long-term costs Norman Seip / Christian Science Monitor The US armed services is working hard to wean itself off of fossil fuels and foreign oil. Yet some in Congress, for short-term savings, want to ban them from...

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Pentagon biofuels effort aids energy independence Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Sen. Susan Collins/Politico Our nation’s military has long demonstrated its ability to identify strategic national security challenges and then solve them in innovative ways. It’s disappointing...

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Rep. Adam Smith Comes to ASP Joshua Foust The American Security Project hosted Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), who spoke about US interests in Africa and AFRICOM. Rep. Smith said we need to look at Africa as an opportunity, not a crisis: it is a place where a unique...

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Taliban commander: we cannot win war and al-Qaida is a ‘plague’ Julian Borger / The Guardian One of the Taliban’s most senior commanders has admitted the insurgents cannot win the war in Afghanistan and that capturing Kabul is “a very distant...