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Natural Security News: Post-Election Edition
The ballots have been cast, the votes are in and the pundits are exhausted. While the world consumes the election results, we’ll take a break from our normal post today to hig...
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Brace Yourself
The United States should get ready to go off the fiscal cliff. Without congressional action, broad tax increases and spending cuts will automatically take effect on January 2....
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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China’s Air Force: Ready For Take Off?
As China’s power and influence continues to grow, the question of how it will behave in the international system looms over the heads of decision makers in almost every capita...
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General Failure
On June 13, 1944, a few days after the 90th Infantry Division went into action against the Germans in Normandy under the command of Brigadier General Jay MacKelvie, MacKelvie’...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
In The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, CNAS Senior Fellow Thomas E. Ricks explores the history of American military leaders and the growing div...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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In Search of 'Dexter': Why You Can't Buy Pirated DVDs in China Anymore
In the final presidential debate on Monday, both candidates identified the United States' need to ensure that Beijing protects intellectual property rights (IPR), such as copy...
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Sanctions Take Toll on Iran’s Influence in the Global Oil Market
Yesterday, Iran’s Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi told an audience at the World Energy Forum in Dubai that the Iranian government would halt all of its oil exports if the United St...
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Proxy War and the Continuing Pitfalls of Double Games
In my last post here, we looked at some of the issues inherent in the use of client and partner states in tackling the issues of counterterrorism. However, there are many case...
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In a Foreign Policy Debate, Attention Should be Given to Climate Change
Tonight is the third and final presidential debate, and it will focus exclusively on foreign policy. Viewers can expect to see significant attention given to Afghanistan, Chin...
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Beyond Borders?
There's been a flurry of commentary and scholarship examining the idea that the 2001 Authorization of Military Force (AUMF) enabled a new kind of fluid, boundary-skipping form...
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Science to the Rescue: Synthetic Genomics and the Road to Commercial Biofuels
One of the knocks against advanced algae biofuels is that they are not cost competitive with conventional petroleum – which is true. But science may eventually offer a way ar...
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Afghan Mining Minister Presses Ahead with Reforms to Improve Transparency
On Sunday, Afghanistan’s Mining Minister Wahidullah Shahrani took steps to improve transparency in the country’s extractive resources industry by disclosing roughly 200 mining...
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The Persistent Dangers of Double Games
Although America’s past and emergent counterterrorism strategies frequently raise concerns about unilateralism, the multilateral and cooperative aspects remain relatively low ...
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Video Highlights: Election 2012: The National Security Agenda - Campaign Surrogate Debate
On October 10, the Center for a New American Security, the American Enterprise Institute and the New America Foundation hosted a debate between top-level surrogates of the Oba...
By Election 2012 Series
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Urbanization, the Environment and Biosecurity
Over the summer, Nancy Brune and I contributed to the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 blog, a forum to discuss a range of issues ahead of the NIC’s forthcom...
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Untangling the Good War
Jason Fritz at Ink Spots has an excellent review up of Anthony Beevor’s new single-volume history of World War II. I haven’t read the work (although Fritz’s review has moved i...
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Reminder: Election 2012 Event on Wednesday
We are still on holiday and won’t be posting any new content to the blog today. But we did want to remind our readers that on Wednesday, October 10, CNAS will hold its final E...
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Dependable Expendables?
While cheap precision weapons, supposedly expendable drones, and invulnerable standoff fires continue to fascinate publics and intrigue policy makers, we should be careful bef...
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Reinventing Landpower
Let's face it: American landpower is in crisis. As blogfather Andrew Exum pointed out in a January column, without a dominant adversary or geographical template (the Soviet Un...
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Japan’s rightward shift
Japanese politics are shifting to the right, and the impact on regional security could be crucial. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s surprise victory to head Japan’s Liberal ...
By Patrick M. Cronin