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I don’t expect to blog much tomorrow because I will be at the CNAS conference, which features speeches by General Petraeus and State Department’s Judith McHale, and talent-laden panels on Iraq, Afghanistan/Pakistan, North Korea, and natural resources as a security issue. The conference is completely booked, including standing room, but you can catch it on ...

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U.S. Central Commander General David Patraeus speaks at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on April 21, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Petraeus addressed the importance of adaptive leadership in national security.

I don’t expect to blog much tomorrow because I will be at the CNAS conference, which features speeches by General Petraeus and State Department’s Judith McHale, and talent-laden panels on Iraq, Afghanistan/Pakistan, North Korea, and natural resources as a security issue. The conference is completely booked, including standing room, but you can catch it on your computer at http://www.cnas.org/live.

I actually don’t buy the conspiratorial line that this conference is where the Obama Pentagon gets its annual marching orders. But you can judge for your own self.

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1

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