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This Weekend’s News: In China, Streamlining Energy Policy
This weekend, Reuters reported that China may reshuffle its cabinet in 2013 to create an energy “super-ministry” that would take control of China’s now-scattered energy polici...
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You Can't Have It All
On Thursday, President Barack Obama and his top defense advisers unveiled new strategic guidance to direct the U.S. military as it transitions from a decade of grueling ground...
By Nora Bensahel, Travis Sharp, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb (Part III)
On Wednesday, January 4, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a book launch for The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest ...
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The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb (Part II)
On Wednesday, January 4, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a book launch for The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest ...
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Video - The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb (Part I)
On Wednesday, January 4, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a book launch for The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest ...
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Eat Your Heart Out, Pete Souza
Dave Barno took this picture of CNAS staffers watching yesterday's Pentagon press briefing. From right to left, USMC fellow Rob Clark, USAF fellow Tom Cooper, Nora Bensahel, T...
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Evening Lecture Series: Robert Kaplan: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Robert Kaplan, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a national correspondent for "The Atlantic," presented "The Indian Ocean and the Future of Ameri...
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On the Defense Strategic Guidance
As promised, I live-tweeted the press conference with the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. A few quick comments, which are based on t...
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Watch This Space
I will be live-tweeting the speeches by the President and Secretary of Defense today, starting around 1050. I will then offer comment on the blog on matters that relate to my ...
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Iranian Saber-rattling and the Price of Oil
Oil prices rose slightly on Wednesday due to increased tensions between the United States and Iran. The price of oil jumped more than $4 a barrel after the Iranian military wa...
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Stupid Things in the NDAA You Probably Missed
This is so incredibly dumb. The National Guard Bureau’s top officer is now a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A provision in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, s...
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On the Casualties of War (Updated)
John Tirman has an important if flawed op-ed in today's New York Times. He urges U.S. military and political leaders -- as well as the general public -- to be honest about civ...
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Join Us Today for the Launch of Philip Taubman’s “The Partnership”
CNAS is kicking off the 2012 event season with the launch of Philip Taubman’s The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb. Join us today at 6 PM at the...
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The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb
If you are in Washington, DC today and have already given up on your New Years resolution to go to the gym after work each day, swing by the W Hotel around 6:00 tonight for an...
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More Thoughts on the 2012 Natural Security Wish List: Why the Arctic is a Priority
Building off my 2012 policy wish list, here is a post I wrote for the National Journal’s Energy and Environment blog on why the Arctic should be a policy priority for the pres...
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Third Annual Natural Security Wish List: Our Policy Hopes for 2012
It’s time again to reflect on our Natural Security policy hopes for the New Year. Some items on this list are more realistic than others, of course – especially considering th...
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The War Over Iran
Matthew Kroenig, Steven Walt and others have given us a real Christmas treat in the form of the debate over Matt's recent article in Foreign Affairs. Walt responded to Matt's ...
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About those F-15s...
National security analysts will immediately note the ways in which the massive U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia is part of the administration's strategy to reassure Gulf allies ...
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Memorandum to the Congress on Egypt
Today's news from Egypt, where the offices of the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute were raided along with several other civil society o...
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Bad Call, Mr. President
A favorite Republican pastime is comparing Democratic presidents and presidential wannabes with Jimmy Carter, who, fairly or not, is remembered by many as having been both hap...