National Security Agency

List of National Security Agency articles

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  Quote of the day: The nature of combat

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  An attack in Herat; Carter arrives in Kabul, Dempsey in Budapest; Crushing Afghanistan retrograde; One sailor has lost nine friends to suicide; Rummy returns; and a bit more. [Presented today by Lockheed Martin.]

  Situation Report

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  Gordon Lubold

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  Brit expert says the U.S. Army never really did population-centric COIN in Vietnam

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Gen. Scales needs to learn that discretion is the better part of civil-military valor

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  A word in semi-defense of E. O’Bagy

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Exclusive: Assad used chems; Meet the man who doles out U.S. aid to Syria; Putin’s got Wasta; O’Bagy gets axed from ISW; P4 gets mobbed (scary video); Winnefeld talks to the IT Crowd; and a bit more. [Presented today by Lockheed Martin]

  Situation Report

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  Gordon Lubold

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  Irony Alert: NSA Targets Israel – And Still Gives Your Data To Its Spies

  The Complex

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  Shane Harris

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  Saving Syria — and Ourselves

  America needs to plot a middle path for military intervention.

  Rational Security

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  John Arquilla

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  An MI officer wonders: Just how did the chain of command let Manning happen?

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Silicon Valley as a non-state actor?

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  West Point history dept. chair ousted

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Never forget: the mil don’t do pinpricks; Why the Russian plan wouldn’t be easy; Mabus: Navy’s ready for Syria; Dempsey, to the point; Where is Koenig’s (peace) Sphere? and a bit more. [presented today by Lockheed Martin.]

  Situation Report

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  Gordon Lubold

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  Pick a Card, Any Card

  How Brian Eno explains Obama's Syria policy.

  Jeffrey Lewis

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  Jeffrey Lewis

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  Is the American left becoming isolationist as it stiffens its anti-globalization stance?

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Good news from FP for Best Defenders!

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  Thomas E. Ricks