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Navigating the Icy Arctic is No Ordinary Mission
Last Friday I pointed out that the U.S. Coast Guard Healy helped the Russian tanker Renda deliver 1.3 million gallons of fuel to Nome, Alaska. It may sound like a normal missi...
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"What Do We Call Them Again?" A Guest Post by Joel Smith and Mike Stinetorf
I have been busy for the past several days and have neglected the blog. I had meant to cross-post this Victoria Fontan offering, for example, on Carl Prine's blog but will ins...
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Events from Around Town: Offshore Oil & Gas in the Arctic - The Next Five Years
Last Thursday the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) hosted a panel on “Offshore Oil & Gas in the Arctic: The Next Five Years.” The event was focused on planned lease sal...
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This Weekend’s News: Chinese Economic Coercion in the South China Sea
Yesterday, China’s nationalist newspaper Global Times published a report arguing that Beijing should make the Philippines pay for increased cooperation with the United States,...
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What Americans Think About the Defense Budget
The New York Times generated a handy budget calculator that allowed its readers to trim dollars off the budget of the Department of Defense. As my colleague Travis Sharp noted...
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Ends, Ways and Means
I think it is possible and even appropriate to question whether or not this administration has gotten everything right in terms of the ends, ways and means in our strategy. Bu...
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U.S. Policy Shift on Nuclear Energy and the Impact on Proliferation Concerns
Yesterday,The Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration has decided to withdraw its demand for countries pursuing nuclear energy development to relinquish the...
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The Debate Over COIN ... and the Future of the U.S. Army
I apologize for not writing on the blog this week. I have a lot of posts in my head but have been busy with other activities -- and writing for other websites. Judah Grunstein...
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Time for a National Dialogue on the Arctic
Last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released its report, “A New Security Architecture for the Arctic: An American Perspective." The report pr...
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On the State of the Union Address
President Obama will deliver his third State of the Union Address tonight. With the focus on the economy and jobs creation, we’re not likely to hear much from the president on...
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This Weekend’s News: Eyes on Nigeria
As I wrote in last weekend’s roundup, there is a lot of uncertainty looming in Nigeria that could impact the global oil market. A weeklong row between the government and labor...
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For China, Economic Leverage in the Arctic May Be Part of the Long Game
A new post by Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins in The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report blog paints a great picture of how economic opportunities in the Arctic may ...
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Read This Now: USAID Climate Change and Development Strategy
Last week, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) released its new climate change and development strategy. The document, according to USAID Administrator Rajiv...
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On Military Language
One of the delights of studying defense policy is watching the U.S. military's heroic but losing battle with the English language.* The new chairman of the joint chiefs of sta...
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This Weekend’s News: Uncertainty Looms in Nigeria
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced over the weekend that the government would partially reinstate fuel subsidies, prompting Nigerian labor unions to suspend a stri...
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War
The video of U.S. Marines urinating on dead Afghan fighters is horrific. The images reflect a breakdown in discipline and an appalling absence of supervision from the noncommi...
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On Defense Policy Analysts and Conflicts of Interest
Gulliver at Ink Spots called my attention to some excellent commentary on TIME Magazine’s blog that deserves a wider readership. In it, a collection of defense analysts demoli...
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Climate Change Cooperation in the South China Sea Region
Building on yesterday’s blog post with recommendations for how U.S. policymakers can encourage cooperation around energy in the South China Sea, here are some quick thoughts o...
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Changing the Tide in the South China Sea: Opportunities for Energy Cooperation
One of the challenges with writing a paper like “The Role of Natural Resources in the South China Sea,” one of six chapters that appears in our new report, Cooperation from St...
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In Praise of ... John Nagl
It has been a bittersweet month here at CNAS. We discovered just before Christmas that our president, John Nagl, had accepted a position at the U.S. Naval Academy (.pdf) effec...