Truly the Center for a New American Security is a revolutionary power, not a status-quo power. First the counterinsurgency-heavy think tank is greeted as liberators within the Gates Pentagon and the State Department. Now, via Small Wars Journal, CNAS wants your TV as well. Army special-forces veteran and CNAS senior fellow Roger Carstens — a great guy to have a beer with, it must be noted — is going to be on an NBC reality show called ‘The Wanted‘, which apparently tracks a team hunting the ex-leader of the Kurdish terrorist group Ansar al-Islam, an individual named Mullah Krekar, who lives in Oslo and looks like he should be living under a bridge extorting money from goats. I’m not sure what to make of hunting accused terrorists on television, but this is great-if-bewildering news for Roger. CNAS’ next foray obviously has to be into the music industry, where its experts can contend that the only way to truly kill Autotune is to protect rappers from the pitch-correction software’s merciless ravages.

Crossposted to The Streak.