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The Taliban, Special Operations, and Strategy
One of the preemiment problems with the way that guerrilla warfare is discussed is the almost commonplace idea that it is a fundamentally different type of war, requiring fund...
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
In On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future, member of the CNAS Board of Directors and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Karen Elliott House navigat...
By Karen Elliott House
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Arms Sales and American Interests
With the U.S. economy in the doldrums and pessimism over American international influence at its peak, the occasional bits of good news naturally grab the headlines. A case in...
By Ethan B. Kapstein
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Snap judgments over Libyan attacks play into hands of terrorists
The armed attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11 and the killing of the US ambassador Christopher Stevens and three of his staff is a horrible tragedy whose re...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Why U.S. Consulates Are More Dangerous Than War Zones
In the 11 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 2.4 million members of the armed forces have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. This is slightly less than the number (2.6 mi...
By Phillip Carter
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Protecting Boots on the Base
When over a dozen insurgents attacked Camp Bastion’s airfield with explosive vests, automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and possibly truck-borne mortars, they inflict...
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Video Highlights: Revenge of Geography Book Launch
On September 13, CNAS hosted the book launch for The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan, Non-Re...
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Video: Revenge of Geography Book Launch
On September 13, CNAS hosted the book launch for The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan, Non-Re...
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Benghazi and Diplomacy's Hard Power
When Egyptian rioters stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, raising the black banners (and bizarrely enough, some were hiding behind Guy Fawkes’s now ubiquitous visage), the news...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
How to Neutralize Energy Competition in the South China SeaThis post originally appeared on the Choke Points blog at Consumer Energy Report.com on September 11, 2012. During her visit to the Asia Pacific last week, Secretary of State ...
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Statesmen need patience to calm public jingoism as disputes flare
The uncompromising claims, official and unofficial accusations, and policy moves in the South and East China Seas in recent months are creating a trend that is not in the nati...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Tensions mount in South China Sea. Here's how to ease them.
During her visit to the Asia Pacific last week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to the dispute over the South China Sea, arguably one of the region’s most intr...
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The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
In The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Stratfor Chief Geopolitical Analyst ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Counterterrorism's Center of Gravity Problem
Reading John Arquilla's latest Foreign Policy piece makes, me, as I am wont to, think about dead Prussians. Arquilla takes a look at the battle for Obama's "strategic soul" an...
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A Rocky Road to Reaping the Benefits of Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth
The New York Times reported on Sunday that Afghanistan’s mineral wealth could be contributing to instability in some parts of the country, particularly areas beyond Kabul’s co...
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Assessing U.S. Interests in Syria: Video Interview with Melissa Dalton
As the brutal conflict in Syria continues on, CNAS Visiting Fellow Melissa Dalton discusses U.S. interests in Syria and the tensions that exist within those interests....
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Sec. Clinton Urges Countries to "Literally Calm the Water" in South China SeaAll eyes are on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her visit to the Asia Pacific this week. On Tuesday, Secretary Clinton met with officials of the Association of S...
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US should designate Haqqani Network as a terrorist organization
Early this month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will submit her decision to Congress on whether or not to designate the Haqqani Network as a terrorist organization. The d...
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Averting Conflict in the South China Sea
Despite rising tensions in the South China Sea, conflict can and should be averted. A good first step would be to acknowledge that the South China Sea is part global good, pa...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Twilight of the Carriers?
Robert Haddick has a provocative post atForeign Policy suggesting that the rise of strategic air power and anti-ship weaponry might render carriers obsolete, and cause major i...