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		<title>Of Leaks and Conspiracies.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/of-leaks-and-conspiracies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks has scored another major coup with its publication of more than 90,000 official and previously classified documents on the Afghan conflict. I am of two minds on its doing so. On the one hand I see it as a valuable instrument of accountability, both as instrument for holding the people directly responsible to account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Link: National Cuts and Runs.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/blog-link-national-cuts-and-runs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/blog-link-national-cuts-and-runs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent events strongly suggest that in spite of its supportive rhetoric, National is planning to withdraw the NZDF commitment to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan as early as next year. Rather than just state why it has decided that the fight is no longer worth fighting, National is attempting to mask the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countering threats as a growth industry.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/countering-threats-as-a-growth-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/countering-threats-as-a-growth-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[News that the US has a network of over one thousand agencies employing more than 800,000 people involved in counter-terrorism efforts comes as no surprise. The post 9/11 reaction to the threat of armed Islamicist extremism by the US government was as visceral as it was knee-jerk, with a blanket call put out to increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broad Bows Out.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/broad-bows-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I cannot say that I regret the news that Howard Broad is ending his tenure as Police Commissioner. Regardless of what positives he brought to the job&#8211;and I know that certain people on the Left think that he is a great guy who can do no wrong&#8211;for me he is to the NZ Police what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Link: Two Sides of the Afghan COIN.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/blog-link-two-sides-of-thee-afghan-coin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/blog-link-two-sides-of-thee-afghan-coin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the most recent &#8220;Word from Afar&#8221; column at Scoop I examine the broader context in which General Stanley McChrystal was forced to resign from his position as commander of US and ISAF forces in Afghanistan. Beyond the issue of his insubordination and civilian control of the military in a democracy, the incident has brought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does New Zealand have a Strategic Culture?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/does-new-zealand-have-a-strategic-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/does-new-zealand-have-a-strategic-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 04:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the pacifist tendencies of many KP readers, the question in the title of this post may seem unusual and of little importance. Little attention has been paid by most public media, much less the Left-leaning ones, to the issue of strategic culture both in general and with specific reference to Aotearoa. My interest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissecting North Korean Madness.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/dissecting-north-korean-madness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/dissecting-north-korean-madness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 05:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Forensic evidence examined by three independent experts confirms what was suspected all along: the 1200-ton South Korean frigate Cheonan was sunk on March 26 by a North Korean torpedo while cruising in South Korean waters near their common maritime border, with the loss of  46 lives. Not only were traces of RDX (a military grade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts about Key&#8217;s Afghan PR Exercise.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/thoughts-about-keys-afghan-pr-exercise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/thoughts-about-keys-afghan-pr-exercise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 13:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have seen and read the reports of John Key&#8217;s much anticipated &#8220;secret&#8221; trip to Afghanistan.  I must say that it is one of the more amateurish, cringe worthy attempts at symbolic politics I have seen in a long time&#8211;not quite as bad as George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; carrier charade, but of the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Armed Crowd is a Polite Crowd.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/an-armed-crowd-is-a-polite-crowd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/an-armed-crowd-is-a-polite-crowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard this phrase when living on a ranch on the Arizona-Mexico border in the early 1990s. It was prompted by my asking a bartender at a local saloon if she felt threatened by the crowd of drunken, armed cowboys in the establishment one evening.  In that environment, it made perfect sense (in fact, Arizona [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Link: Spinning the Spy Trade</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/blog-link-spinning-the-spy-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/blog-link-spinning-the-spy-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised the latest &#8220;Word from Afar&#8221; column at Scoop focuses on the 2008-2009 NZSIS annual report. As I anticipated in an earlier post, there are a few nuggets of information about its work amid all the PR jargon and managerial double speak. Check it out here.
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		<title>The EAB becomes the NAB.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/the-eab-becomes-the-nab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/the-eab-becomes-the-nab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ It has recently been announced the the External Assessment Bureau (EAB) has become the National Assessment Bureau (NAB), combining external as well as internal intelligence assessments in the lead up to the 2011 Rugby World Cup (although I believe that the claim that the move was needed to better coordinate threat assessment for the World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Idealism trumps the Law.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/political-idealism-trumps-the-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/political-idealism-trumps-the-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Waihopai 3&#8243; have been acquitted. Their act of civil disobedience, which resulted in damage to one of the domes covering eavesdropping equipment at the Echelon Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) gathering station near Blenheim, was deemed by a jury of their peers to be justified because of their sincerely held beliefs that the listening post contributed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing Counter-Espionage.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/outsourcing-counter-espionage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The SIS recently released its 2008-2009 annual report. I will be analyzing it in further detail in a future &#8220;Word from Afar&#8221; column over at Scoop. However, I thought I would provide readers with a glimpse of one aspect of its activities that called my attention.
On page 14 (out of 29) of the report, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Link: Why the NZDF is in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/01/blog-link-why-the-nzdf-is-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/01/blog-link-why-the-nzdf-is-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Controversy about the publication of SAS soldiers in action in Kabul last week, and the identification of one of them, has morphed into debate about the reasons why the NZDF is in Afghanistan. I have already outlined my views on the matter in previous posts here at KP, but the furore forced me to reflect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8220;counter-insurgency&#8221; is a misnomer (and counter-productive).</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/12/why-counter-insurgency-is-a-misnomer-and-counter-productive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/12/why-counter-insurgency-is-a-misnomer-and-counter-productive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first &#8220;real&#8221; job involved creating a Latin American Studies program for US military and civilian intelligence officers at a military post-graduate institution. One of the factors that contributed to my being hired was that I had familiarity with how Latin American guerrilla organizations fight. When asked at the job interview about how to &#8220;counter&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The SIS wants us to help do its job.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/11/the-sis-wants-us-to-help-do-it-job/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/11/the-sis-wants-us-to-help-do-it-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The SIS has asked for the cooperation of private industry and academia in reporting potentially suspicious activities that could be related to the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).  To that end it sent out a pamphlet to universities and business where potential WMD materials are used outlining how to identify the misuse of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Strategic Utility of Terrorism.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/11/on-the-strategic-utility-of-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/11/on-the-strategic-utility-of-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous life I worked in and with the US security apparatus on matter of Latin American regional policy, to include subjects ranging from civil-military relations to counter-insurgency. In the latter capacity I spend a fair bit of time interacting with the Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SOLIC) community who are  primarily responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Utu in a Colonial Court?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/11/legal-utu-in-a-colonial-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little over two years ago the so-called &#8221; anti-terrorism&#8221; raids were carried out by the Police against activists in Ruatoki, Wellington and Auckland. The media frenzy that immediately followed focused on reports of &#8220;paramilitary&#8221; training camps, where, according to Helen Clark, &#8220;napalm&#8221; bombs were being made, weapons training was ongoing and plots were being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On resuming intelligence sharing with the US.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/on-resuming-intelligence-sharing-with-the-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must confess that this one has me stumped. In her joint press conference with Murray McCully today, Hillary Clinton said that the US would resume intelligence-sharing with NZ as a sign of the strengthened security ties between the two countries.  It might have been a slip of the tongue, but McCully seemed unfazed and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Iran a Menace?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/is-iran-a-menace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concerns about the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons programme have escalated in recent weeks with 1) the revelation of a previously unknown uranium enrichment facility outside of Qum (although the claim that the facility was a secret and unknown to Western intelligence is a bit dubious), 2) reports of Russian weapons scientists involvement in the Iranian [...]]]></description>
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