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PSA: Stop-Loss Payments -- ACT NOW
The very first time I got worked up about a defense policy issue and made a stink about it in public concerned the misguided stop-loss policy. The U.S. government, though, has...
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CNASers on the Hill: Hearing on Rare Earths & Foreign/Security Policy
Yesterday I had the honor of testifying to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific on rare earth elements. Other than the Chairman misstating that I att...
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Command Post: "Does Mutual U.S.-China Economic Dependence Rule Out War?"
Continuing our discussion this week on China, we're tackling a corollary of Tom Friedman's McDonald's Rule -- countries with McDonald's restaurants generally don't wage war on...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Monopoly on Rare Earths: Implications for U.S. Foreign and Security PolicyOn September 21st, CNAS Fellow Christine Parthemore testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. She testified regarding her ...
By Christine Parthemore
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Pres. Obama's Speech to the General Assembly
Here we go! Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: I would like to talk to you about a subject that is at the heart of the United Nation...
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Understanding India’s South China Sea Gambit
Last week, The Times of India reported that India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Videsh would, with Vietnam’s support, continue its exploration for oil and natural g...
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Command Post: "How Big a Threat Does China Pose?"
This week on Command Post, John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and I probe the threat -- or whatever it is -- posed by China. We're joined in the discussion by...
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Rick Perry on Israel and the Palestinians
I hate digging deep into issues related to Israel and the Palestinians, but since this is the hardest statement on foreign policy yet issued by the Perry campaign, here we go:...
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Prediction Time, U.S. Army Edition
The end of the ban on gays serving openly in our armed services has arrived and will get plenty of media attention in the next few days. But I predict that the U.S. Army's int...
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On the Hill: Christine to Testify Before House Foreign Affairs Committee About Rare Earths
Tomorrow, Christine will testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific about China’s monopoly on rare earths where she’ll speak t...
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This Weekend’s News: For the Philippines, Growing Anxieties in the South China Sea
Yesterday, The Washington Post reported that some in the Philippines have expressed increased concern with China’s growing energy exploration in the waters off the coast of th...
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Command Post: The Human Toll Taken by a Decade of War
Just how worn out are our troops because of non-stop combat since 9/11? To what degree has that contributed to problems like PTSD, family breakups and suicide in the ranks? T...
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Dakota Meyer
Bing West, of course, described it the most eloquently: For a man to charge into fire once requires grit that is instinctive in few men; to do so a second time, now knowing wh...
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Read This Now: Joint Investigation Report on BP Oil Spill
Yesterday, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) released two reports based on the findings from the joint...
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NATO-Taliban Twitter Fight! (Or, The Enduring Wisdom of Ecclesiastes 1:9)
The media is fascinated by the Twitter fight between the Taliban and the NATO forces in Afghanistan. Really, though, aside from the medium itself, this is nothing new in warfa...
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Implementing DOD Energy Programs Requires Navigating the Red Tape
Successfully implementing new energy programs at DOD installations often requires a sophisticated understanding of state regulatory bodies and coordination with public utility...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
This week in Washington, a conference at the National Defense University has gathered some of the world's leading experts on terrorism. A few nights ago, I joined some of them...
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What We Still Don't Know About the Kabul Attacks
Tuesday, Sept. 13's dramatic attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO compounds in Kabul is sure to garner many headlines and will sow doubts about the ability of the Afghan nation...
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Command Post: "How Did the U.S. Military Retool Itself Post-9/11?"
In the decade after 9/11, just how much did the U.S. military have to recalibrate to fight the wars it found itself launching in Afghanistan and, 18 months later, in Iraq? Thi...
By Eric Schmitt
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On Platoon Leadership
George MacDonald Fraser, in his memoir Quartered Safe Out Here, already has one of my favorite quotes (.pdf) about platoon leadership in combat: If you want to know how scare...