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This Weekend’s News: Afghan Poppy Production Could Be a Harbinger of Security Challenges
Afghan poppy production is on the rise in some areas and may indicate backsliding in crucial provinces that have seen security gains in recent years. According to a report fro...
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Dissecting the Offshoring of Counterterrorism draft
As is wont to happen, the current forms of warfare the United States in engaging in and preparing for lend themselves easily to misrepresentation and simplification. As the U....
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Limiting Terminological Escalation
There's a lot of (correct) criticism about military buzzwords and calling things war which plainly are not. So credit should be given when credit is due when someone gets it ...
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The Political Economy of Operational Art
In the Principles of War, the Principle of Mass calls for the commander to concentrate combat power at the decisive time and place. Sounds simple enough. Those who allowed th...
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Spillover from Syria
There has been much understandable worry about the civil war in Syria re-igniting dormant conflicts in Lebanon and Iraq. Despite the ongoing violence in northern Lebanon, I us...
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What We Are Reading: Climate Change, Rising Temperatures and Energy Use at U.S. Military Installations.
Apologies for the abbreviated post, but some of the CNAS team (myself included) are on a field trip this morning exploring a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. It is part of my personal...
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You Can't Win Anything With Kids
As some of you may know, I am planning on taking a leave of absence at the end of the summer from CNAS in order to participate in the Council on Foreign Relations' Internation...
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Video: Election 2012: The National Security Budget
On May 15, the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for a New American Security and the New America Foundation hosted a discussion on the U.S. national security budget as...
By Election 2012 Series
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Quote of the Day
My grandfather returned from Japan in 1946 and then worked for the next 30 years to ensure his three daughters could be the first members of the family to attend college. I ha...
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Sanctions on Iranian Oil Exports Taking Hold Ahead of Baghdad Meeting
There is some evidence that western sanctions on Iranian oil exports are taking a toll on the Islamic republic, even months before the sanctions go completely into effect in J...
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Monday Afternoon Wisdom
Richard Betts on the difference between policing and war: Some attempts to use force in this multilateral and limited manner – such as in the second phase of the Somalia inte...
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This Weekend’s News: A Row over Fish Heightens Tensions in the South China Sea
The Philippines announced on Sunday (Monday in Manila) that it will ignore China’s fishing ban near the disputed Scarborough Shoal that is set to begin on May 16 and run throu...
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Dick Betts is a Genius
I am going to write a blog post. Some attempts to use force in this multilateral and limited manner – such as in the second phase of the Somalia intervention in 1993, “pinpri...
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Internet Freedom Is a Human Right
Sometimes it's called "information security." Other times, it's called "Internet management," or a "hate-free Internet." Whatever the code-name for it, too many foreign govern...
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Technology & National Security
Video: Global Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy Imperative in a Digital AgeOn May 10, the Center for a New American Security hosted an event featuring the Senate and House Caucuses on Global Internet Freedom, which provide bipartisan leadership and s...
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High School Days
Focusing on a candidate's high school years strikes me as silly. As silly as focusing on a candidate's old girlfriends. But reading through this slideshow on Mitt Romney's yea...
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Egypt & Israel
I apologize for the light blogging. I returned from a few days at Ft. Leavenworth -- education, not incarceration -- this morning and am in the middle of the final edits on a ...
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China’s Foray into Deep-Water Drilling Could Raise Stakes in South China Sea
On Monday, Chinese media reported that China’s first deep-water drilling rig (developed domestically by the state-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation) will begin opera...
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Read This Now: The New American Oil Boom – Implications for Energy Security
A new report from Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) debunks the myth about America’s oil boom leading to energy independence. The SAFE study, The New American Oil Boom: ...
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This Weekend’s News: A Nuclear-Free Japan
Japanese officials shutdown the last of 50 nuclear reactors late Saturday evening, taking the country off of nuclear power for the first time in more than four decades. Most o...