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Bringing Structure Back to Irregular Warfare
Structural approaches to international relations have gone somewhat out of fashion in recent years. Burdened with their associations with Cold War geopolitics and “billiard ba...
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Drivers of Instability and Conflict in Africa
Last week, I participated in the CCAPS Shifting Conflict Patterns in Africa: Drivers of Instability and Strategies for Cooperation conference, during which policymakers, pract...
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Happy Earth Day
Photo: Image of Earth taken during the Apollo 11 mission, which brought the first man to the moon in July 1969. Courtesy NASA....
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Photo of the Week
Photo: Two U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Enforcement Specialists provide security at Rowes Wharf in Boston on April 15. Boston-based Coast Guard units have increased their patrols...
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Transcript: A Conversation with Senator John S. McCain
The Center for a New American Security hosted "A Conversation with Senator John S. McCain" at a luncheon on April 18, 2013. In his remarks, Senator McCain outlined an "intern...
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Video: A Conversation with Senator John S. McCain
The Center for a New American Security hosted "A Conversation with Senator John S. McCain" at a luncheon on April 18, 2013. In his remarks, Senator McCain outlined an "intern...
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Hill Happenings
Capitol Hill was active in the energy security arena this week. On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and responded ...
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The Stakes for America in the Race to Replace Karzai
Afghanistan has held two presidential elections since 2001. Hamid Karzai won both, but the most recent (in 2009) was marred by irregularities such as stuffed ballot boxes and ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Energy and Water Security Priorities Move Ahead at U.S. Military Installations
On April 5, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that the largest renewable energy project in U.S. military history is expected to begin soon at Fort Bliss, Texas. Once o...
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The United States and China to Increase Dialogue on Climate Change
Saturday marked John Kerry’s inaugural visit to China as acting Secretary of State. While North Korea’s most recent episode of belligerence took center stage and dominated the...
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Cracking Defense's Crystal Balls
It's the Sequestration Game of Thrones, and a careful observer of DC defense politics will glimpse much tumult as the Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force all battle for suprema...
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Secretary of Energy Nominee Not Definitive on LNG Export Policy
President Obama’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy, Ernest Moniz, received bipartisan support on the Hill on Tuesday and appears likely to sail through the confirmatio...
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Signing Off
After four years, it is bittersweet for me to close this chapter of my professional life. Today is my last day at CNAS and at the helm of the Natural Security program. Startin...
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Video: Arms Control 2.0 in Obama 2.0
Robert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby discussed the future of arms control in President Obama’s second term in a conversation moderated by Jessica Mathews....
By Elbridge Colby
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The State of Play in East Africa’s Energy Sector
Move over, America. East Africa has emerged as the newest potential player in the future geopolitics of energy. From oil in Kenya to natural gas in Mozambique, a region long t...
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The Limits of Proxy Warfare in Syria
With the drumbeat for directly joining Syria’s civil war growing, it probably should not surprise us that the U.S. governments quiet efforts to aid the Syrian rebels are now c...
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In Mali, a Star Singer Calls for War
BAMAKO, Mali — American musicians who write songs about war almost always call for it to be avoided. Here in Mali, one of the most popular songs in the country does the exact ...
By Yochi Dreazen
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Are US Navy's Super Carriers a Relic of Wars Past?
WASHINGTON — Budget pressures at the Pentagon have renewed a debate about the value of the US Navy's giant aircraft carriers, with critics arguing the warships are fast becomi...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Biofuel Inches toward Commercial-Scale Production
Last week, the San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, Inc. announced a commercial partnership with the San Antonio-based Tesoro to refine the company’s algae-based “green” crude oil...
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America Committed to Gulf Security Despite Changing Relationship with Region's Oil, says Gen. Dempsey
America’s relationship with the Middle East’s energy resources is changing as U.S. domestic oil production continues to grow. A combination of hydraulic fracturing, horizontal...