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Climate Change Winners and Losers: The Commercial Shipping Industry
The decline of Arctic summer sea ice and the opening of passage to commercial travel for at least one month of the year have been pointed to as the silver lining of a dark clo...
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This Weekend’s News: Iraq
Most of the above of the fold headlines this weekend reported on the Obama administration’s planned withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of the year. President O...
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Getting to Zero
Having pretty carefully considered the arguments for and against leaving troops in Iraq beyond this year, I ultimately found Doug Ollivant's argument to be the most persuasive...
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Command Post: "Is the U.S. Readying to Strike More Often Inside Pakistan?"
Relations between Washington and Islamabad may be at an all-time low. Was the daring SEAL raid into Abbottabad to kill Osama bin Laden nearly six months ago a one-off event? O...
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Events from Around Town: The World's Water Volume 7: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
Despite the vast amount of water on Earth, demands for human consumption are reaching constraints with regard to accessibility, quality and use. This concept of “peak ecologic...
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Events from Around Town: Science During Crisis: Lessons Learned From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
On Monday, I attended an event sponsored by the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Dr. Gary Machlis, the Science Advisor to the Director of the National ...
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Command Post: "Are U.S. Troops Leaving Afghanistan Prematurely?"
Or is it about time? That all depends, of course, on what you think the U.S. mission in Afghanistan -- now a decade old -- actually is. We have booted the Taliban from power, ...
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The Future of Nuclear Power…and Proliferation
Dr. Charles Ferguson, President of the Federation of American Scientists, has a terrific piece in this current issue of Foreign Policy that explores the future of nuclear ener...
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Hard Choices for Ground Forces
Given today's fiscal constraints, together with a shift of emphasis to the Indo-Pacific Rim, the United States should make plans to reduce the Army and Marine Corps to roughly...
By Nora Bensahel, Travis Sharp, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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This Weekend’s News: In Japan, a Struggle to Understand Radioactive Fallout
On Saturday, The New York Times reported that Japan continues to reel from the radioactive fallout from the March Fukushima nuclear disaster. According to the Times, Japanese ...
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Command Post: "How Can We Avoid a 'Hollow Military' This Time Around?"
Old-timers recall with dread the so-called "hollow Army" the U.S. had following the Vietnam War, which crystallized in 1980's failed rescue mission of the U.S. hostages held b...
By Nora Bensahel
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Looking to Trim the Defense Budget? Start with the QDR.
Yesterday's announcement that the Department of Defense will form a "Strategic Choices Group" to identify priorities and risks ahead of $450 billion in potential cuts to the b...
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Afghanistan: A look back at a decade of war
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Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity - Video
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a conference on its newly released report, Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity, on October 7, 2011. H...
By Nora Bensahel
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Read This Now: GAO Report on Climate Engineering: Technical Status, Future Directions, and Potential Responses
Last week we revisited the geoengineering debate in light of the recent Bipartisan Policy Center’s report recommending that the U.S. government be prepared to counter the effe...
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National Security Human Capital Program
Transcript - Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of AusterityThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a conference on its newly released report, Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity, on October 7, 2011. Har...
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Command Post: Can We Cut Pentagon Spending Enough by Eliminating Waste, Fraud and Abuse?
They're three of the Pentagon's perpetual enemies: waste, fraud and abuse. It's so common it sometimes morphs an acronym – WFA. If it's such a big part of military spending, c...
By Nora Bensahel
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This Long Weekend’s News: In Texas, Drought-Driven Cattle Find Grazing Grounds in the North
Without the right context it is sometimes difficult to understand what abstract concepts like “climate impacts” mean. But with the right context the consequences become quite ...
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Crime and War
As criminal organizations metamorphose into criminal states, the domains of law enforcement and the military increasingly overlap. The most important emerging security chall...
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Columbus Day Holiday
The Natural Security bloggers are on holiday today, so there won't be a new post this morning. Have a great Monday everyone!...