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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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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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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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Read This Now: Global Trends 2030
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) published its Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds on Monday, a quadrennial analysis of the major trends shaping the global security ...
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Iraq in Hindsight: Views on the U.S. Withdrawal
In Iraq in Hindsight: Views on the U.S. Withdrawal, Emma Sky offers a pointed critique of U.S. policy over the last decade, arguing that valuable lessons can be learned from t...
By Emma Sky
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The Silence and the Drones
The controversy of the American targeted-killing program, and especially the resurgence of covert paramilitary and military action, has inspired a great deal of concern about ...
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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.)
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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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A Sea Change in Natural Gas Trade Raises Foreign Policy Questions
International trade in natural gas has been turned on its head. In 2005, the United States was on track to import nearly 20 percent of its natural gas by 2020. That forecast l...
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India’s South China Sea Gambit Redux
India’s interest in the South China Sea is getting more attention. Last year, The Times of India reported that India’s offshore Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Videsh w...
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Data Show Global Carbon Emissions Hit Record High in 2011
New climate data published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Sundayshow that global carbon emissions hit a record high in 2011 and could increase in 2012 without a conce...
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Global Swing States and European Strategy
A new European Global Strategy must account for one of the most important geopolitical trends of the early 21st century: the growing influence of emerging market democracies i...
By Daniel Kliman & Richard Fontaine
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How to Fight in Afghanistan With Fewer U.S. Troops
Kimberly and Frederick W. Kagan’s Nov. 23 commentary, arguing for a force of 30,000 or more Americans in Afghanistan after 2014 [“What we’ll need in Afghanistan,” Sunday Opini...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Generalship and its Discontents
Having plowed through Tom Ricks' book on generals, I expected to write a review here. Unfortunately, I realized that I lack the background in the history of American military ...
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The State of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
Last week the Department of Energy (DOE) announced its decision to award the first company to receive government funding in support of commercializing Small Modular Reactors (...