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Through a Murky PRISM
Edward Snowden is one of history's great actors. But not in the way his admirers (and some detractors) believe, as will be made clear at the end of this post. An earlier draft...
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How America Lost Its Nerve Abroad
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Much as Baghdad once did, this city feels like an outpost of American imperialism. There's the familiar "green zone," the checkpoints you have to zigzag ...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Setting an Agenda for U.S.-China Strategic ReassuranceThe summit meeting between Xi Jinping and Barack Obama underway in Southern California offers an opportunity to recast the often fraught Sino-US relationship as one that is on...
By Alexander Sullivan & Patrick M. Cronin
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Defense Spending: How the Pentagon can cut costs - and come out stronger
The Department of Defense faces a stark budgetary choice that will profoundly affect the future of the U.S. military. During past drawdowns, DOD chose to save money by cutting...
By Jacob Stokes, Joel Smith, Katherine Kidder, Nora Bensahel, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Cook It Down
I am staying away from Twitter and most social media today, which has become mostly dysfunctional over the NSA stories. As with any other complicated topic dealing with nation...
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How NOT To Argue About Women in Combat
My views on women in close combat once hewed pretty close to those of our great Blogfather Exum. However, after reading Azar Gat's War in Human Civilization (as well as his ot...
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Local Partners, War, and TANSTAAFL
<p>Earlier this year, the Colombian military whacked "32 high-value narco-terrorists" with the help of US Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconaissance (ISR) platforms. ...
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U.S. AID Supports Disaster Risk Reduction, Resiliency and Climate Adapation Engagement in Asia Pacific
The Center for A New American Security is currently hosting a working group series ‘Climate and Security in Asia’ the purpose of which is to explore opportunities to advance U...
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I Might Need You To Kill: Signatures, Patterns, and Alternatives
From what we know from seemingly deliberate leaks on the eve of Obama’s major counterterrorism speech at the National Defense University last week, the most widely criticized ...
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Nature's Not In It: A Special In Memoriam
Running through much common misunderstanding of drones, autonomous weapons ,and modern warfare is a romantic fetish of the "natural" and a demonization of the machine and thos...
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Afghanistan's Troubled Transition
One word sums up the current preoccupation in Afghanistan: in Dari it’s “inteqal”; in English, "transition.” For both Afghans and the international community, transition remai...
By Jacob Stokes
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A grand retreat from confronting Iran?
A new Washington report headlined by former US under secretary of state for political affairs Thomas R. Pickering argues that America should end its confrontation with Iran ov...
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Leaks, Politics, and Power
The Obama Administration's aggressive anti-leak campaign has further polarized an already fractious community of national security commentators. On one side, as Joshua Foust n...
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Asia-Pacific Rebalance: Strengthening Regional Maritime Security
On May 21, 2013, the Center for a New American Security hosted Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations at the Willard InterContinental Hotel. The admiral addre...
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I Got 200 Million Problems, But Multicollinearity Ain't One
When even David Brooks, Herodotus of the Bobos, is waxing lyrical about data and empiricism you know that data science has become mainstream. Drew Conway is right that the phr...
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Cybersecurity at Nuclear Reactors Should be a Priority
Since the late 1990s, the U.S. Government has designated parts of our infrastructure as “critical,” meaning that attacks on such sectors could cause catastrophic damage. There...
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Photo of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
As a pilot site in the Army's net zero initiative, Fort Hunter Liggett in California is home to a solar microgrid project, pictured above. The first of four phases of the proj...
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The Mattis Book Club
I've always admired USMC general General James Mattis. I first encountered him when I read his scathing takedown of Effects-Based Operations (EBO) in 2008, and soon became fam...
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Arctic Updates
Some recent happenings in the Arctic: The Arctic Council will hold its biennial Ministerial Meeting on May 15. The Council is an intergovernmental body that attempts to addres...
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Israeli Bombs and American Qualms: Assessing Syria
The recent Israeli airstrikes in Syria, through which the Israeli Air Force appears to target weapons shipments bound for Hezbollah, provoked an important debate among those c...