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Read This Now - Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs To Know
For those of you traveling this holiday weekend and looking for a good book to pass your time with, I recommend Dr. Charles Ferguson’s Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to K...
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Christmas Comes Early for the Obama Administration in Afghanistan
Reading through the 76-point resolution produced by Afghanistan's Loya Jerga, I was struck by how welcome so many of these points will be inside the White House. Afghan leader...
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What Should U.S. Arctic Capabilities Look Like?
Last Monday, Businessweekpublished an excerpt from a new book by David Fairhall, Cold Front: Conflict Ahead in Arctic Waters. Besides the provocative title (which, by focusing...
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This Weekend’s News: Recapping the East Asia Summit
President Obama returned stateside on Sunday after a nine-day trip across the Asia Pacific, ending with a stop at the East Asia Summit in Bali over the weekend. The president’...
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What You Need to Know About the CIA Getting Rolled Up in Lebanon. That, and Larry Munson. (Updated)
As some of you may or may not already know, Hizballah, together with the Lebanese government, has rolled up what is believed to be the vast majority of the assets of the Centr...
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Stop What You Are Doing And Read These Two Things
In an essay on the alleged crimes at Penn State, Iraq War veteran Thomas L. Day does the best job of anyone summing up why I am so frustrated with the generation that precedes...
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Cluster Munitions Hypocrisy
I am in Oslo, where I had the rewarding if intimidating experience of delivering two lectures to Brynjar Lia, Thomas Hegghammer and their fellow researchers at FFI yesterday. ...
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More on the DSB Climate and Security Report: Earth Monitoring Satellites
The Defense Science Board’s new report, Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Security, is getting some good traction. As I promised in my l...
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In Brief: State Department Refocuses Efforts to Manage Energy Geopolitics
The State Department’s new Bureau of Energy Resources will open today in a reorganization of the department’s efforts to manage the geopolitical implications of energy resourc...
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Read This Now: Defense Science Board Report on Climate Change and Security
Last Thursday, the Defense Science Board (DSB) released its report on climate change and security, Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Sec...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A with Steve Inskeep
On a recent plane ride home from Germany, I finished Steve Inskeep's Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, which I can recommend to all of you with confidence. I was, as I ...
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This Weekend’s News: For China, Pursuit of Nuclear Power Requires Some Outside Help
China is just one of the many East and Southeast Asian states that continues to pursue nuclear power in the wake of the March 2011 disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclea...
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Happy Veterans Day
Happy Veterans Day from the Natural Security blog. We're taking the day to honor all those who have served, and are giving thanks to those who continue to serve the country. ...
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What’s Trending in the South China Sea?
CNAS is just several weeks away from publishing a major study on the South China Sea (look for it sometime early in January 2012). But with U.S. and other East Asian leaders p...
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Events from Around Town: The Climate and Energy Nexus
Starting at 9 a.m. this morning, our friends at the Pew Center for Global Climate Change are hosting an event at the Newseum in Washington, “Toward Climate and Energy Solution...
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On the Agenda: Pacific Rim Nations Meet at APEC to Discuss Green Energy Technologies
The annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is underway in Honolulu. Trade representatives from the United States, China and 19 other countries will meet this w...
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This Weekend’s News: A Look at the Global Swing States, Beginning with Brazil
CNAS is ramping up a fascinating project on the global swing states. Last week, my colleagues Richard Fontaine and Dan Kliman published an op-ed in World Politics Review about...
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Three Views on the United States and Iraq
I want to highlight three op-eds on the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. The first is by Brett McGurk, an early supporter within the Bush Administration for the "Surge" who later he...
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Seriously?
Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking to the Knesset: Members of Knesset, I have spoken, and I must admit not always successfully, about strength and responsibility. I also want to tal...
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A Fairly Awful Model for Civilian-Military Relations
Peter Beinart, hailing the Israeli system: Every time I get depressed about politics in Israel, I try to remember one salient fact: their political system still sometimes func...