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Great Raids and Great Disasters
One of the most useful aspects of Zero Dark Thirty is its dogged focus on the mundane and numerous things that underpin great raids. There are the countless hours of intellige...
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Inauguration Day 2013
President Barack Obama officially began his second term yesterday when he took the oath of office in the White House Blue Room. This morning, shortly before noon, he will take...
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Global Swing States Interview with Richard Fontaine
Richard Fontaine, CNAS President, answers questions on the Global Swing States: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey and the Future of International Order report co-authored with ...
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The Arctic Age that Wasn’t?
In a World Politics Review article published last Friday, I wrote that despite record low ice melt last year, the Arctic’s harsh environment is not giving way to commercial gr...
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Third National Climate Assessment Unequivocal about Climate Change
“Evidence for climate change abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans,” reads a draft of the Third National Climate Assessment, published for public...
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Old Hundred and the American Way of Wartime Law
Thanks to a coincidence of film release debates, Lincoln and Django Unchained have prompted no small outpouring of commentary on the relationship between law, race, and violen...
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U.S. Must Keep Planning Realistic for Arctic 'Opening'
The Arctic is melting faster than anyone predicted. The World Meteorological Organization announced that ice melt in the Arctic reached a new record in 2012 when an area of ic...
By Will Rogers
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Top U.S. Security and Foreign Policy Trends to Track in 2013
Natural resource and environmental issues have gained more attention from the national security and foreign policy communities in recent years– from concerns related to the U....
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The Market for Covert Action
Here is another way of understanding some of the common themes that Dan Trombly and I have written about during our brief time blogging on Abu Muquwama: For the purpose of ar...
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The Once and Future CIA
Intelligence reform is once again in the air, and this time the bogeyman is the "militarization" of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As Mark Safranski notes, there is so...
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Top Five International Trends to Track in 2013
Natural resource trends topped international headlines in 2012 – from illicit resource trade in Afghanistan to energy competition in the South China Sea. Which ones should rea...
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A 'Zero Option' for Afghanistan
Recent reports suggest that the White House is looking at troop options ranging from 3,000 to as many as 15,000 stay-behind troops. Many think that the final figure will be we...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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From Benghazi to Blackwater
Academi (formerly Blackwater) and other military contractors received an early Christmas present on the 20th: a windfall in future profits from diplomatic security: [B]oth th...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Asia's Pivotal PowerA resurgent Asian nation has just elevated hawkish nationalists to the pinnacle of power. Its maritime conflicts with neighbors raise the risk of military confrontation along ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Guest Post: The Shape of Al Shabaab’s Post-Kismayo Attacks
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a Ph.D. candidate in world politics at the Catholic University of America. He is t...
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Revitalizing the Partnership: The United States and Iraq A Year After Withdrawal
My CNAS colleagues Melissa Dalton and Nora Bensahel published a policy brief recently assessing the state of U.S. policy toward Iraq a year after U.S. military forces complete...
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Western Hemisphere Happenings: Cuba’s Continued Quest for Offshore Oil
Russia’s Zarubezhneft oil company has moved to shallower waters to continue drilling exploratory oil wells off Cuba’s coast, according to a report in the Washington Post on Sa...
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For Secretaries of Defense and State, Democrats’ Short list is Far Too Short
If the names being bandied about to fill the top jobs at the State Department and the Pentagon sound familiar, they should. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts was Hillary Rodha...
By Yochi Dreazen
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American Decline and the Liberal Order
The national conversation about America’s potential “decline,” however defined, tends to rely on an understanding in which power is conceptualized in simple metrics rather tha...
By Richard Fontaine
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North Korea hits its mark
North Korea’s successful missile launch now presents Pyongyang as on the cusp of joining the elite club of nations with nuclear-armed Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)