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Climate-Energy Nexus and the Benefits of Natural Gas
A new study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers an important reminder about the climate-energy nexus that has been largely missing from the energy ...
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Plugging U.S. Missile Defense Gaps
It would be a mistake to assume that we dodged a bullet with the fiery end to North Korea’s Unha-3 missile launch at the Dongchang-ri facility one minute into its fight. In fa...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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This Weekend’s News: Territorial Disputes Across the Indo-Pacific
This weekend’s news highlighted several ongoing territorial disputes across the Indo-Pacific region, from resource-rich Kashmir to the potentially hydrocarbon-rich South China...
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Random Friday Thoughts
1. I do not know why we continue to be surprised that initial reporting and statements on the raid to kill Osama bin Laden were innacurate. It will be a long time -- maybe eve...
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The U.S. Army: Bruised but Unbroken
I am a strong critic of the U.S. Army and the way in which it has struggled to explain how it best serves the security needs of the nation beyond the wars in Iraq and Afghanis...
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Indian Ocean Earthquake and the Importance of Tsunami Early Warning Systems
A magnitude 8.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island today prompting the governments of India, Indonesia and Thailand to issue tsunami warnings for th...
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Environmental Peacebuilding on the World’s Highest Battlefield: A Pragmatic Approach to Security
Saleem Ali of the University of Vermont and author of Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future had a terrific piece in National Geographic Magazine on Apri...
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This Weekend’s News: China’s Caribbean Interests
The New York Times reported yesterday that China is increasing its economic ties with the Caribbean, raising concerns among some U.S. diplomats and others that Beijing may be ...
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Two Good Articles on Hizballah (and in English!)
Anne Barnard -- whose husband wrote a very solid book on Hizballah last year -- has herself written a very solid article on Hizballah and Syria in today's New York Times: De...
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New Study Highlights Military Capabilities in the Arctic
A new report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) finds that the build-up of Arctic military capabilities is limited, with few indications that co...
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Capability ≠ Intent
Reuters reports that the U.S. intelligence community is worked up about the potential that Hizballah could attack U.S. civilians in the United States in the event of an attack...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video - Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Singapore PerspectiveOn April 4, 2012, CNAS hosted Dr. Ng Eng Hen, Minister for Defense of the Republic of Singapore, for a speech on "Promoting Peace and Stability in the Asia-Pacific through Sta...
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America in Australia
The U.S. occupation of Australia has begun. U.S. officials claim the occupation has nothing to do with the behavior of China, leading defense analysts to conclude this has mor...
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Obama and Iraq
I have a new column in World Politics Review arguing that most criticisms of President Obama on Iraq miss the mark. Most recently, GOP critics of the Obama administration hav...
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Law of the Sea Ratification Central to Securing U.S. Maritime Interests
Debate over ratifying the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is ramping up in Washington. There has been a lot of attention given to how the treaty can help the Un...
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Some Troops Will Stay Past 2014
The United States military will still be in Afghanistan at the end of this year. It will still be in Afghanistan at the end of 2013. And it will still be in Afghanistan beyond...
By Andrew M. Exum
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Sequestration Is Irresponsible
Sequestration is an irresponsible way to reduce defense spending. The sudden and inflexible process for implementing cuts under sequestration will unnecessarily damage America...
By Travis Sharp
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Dispute Over Oil Revenues Heighten Tensions in Iraq
A perennial dispute between Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government over how to manage Kurdistan’s oil resources is exacerbating tensions between the Iraqi central governm...
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This Weekend’s News: The Political Stakes of Indonesian Fuel Prices
The Indonesian government retreated from a planned increase in government-subsidized fuel prices on Saturday due to widespread protests that caused the government coalition th...
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Man of War
Since the death of Osama bin Laden, journalists have with varying success attempted to piece together the details of the raid on his compound in Abbottabad. But the tale of th...
By Andrew M. Exum