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Command Post: "How Tough Is It to Tell Who Launched a Cyber Attack?"
The word attribution always crops up when experts debate the challenges of deterring a cyber attack. It simply means determining just who is responsible for nefarious acts onl...
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In Northeast Asia, Energy May Alter the Geopolitical Balance
A potential energy deal between Russia and North Korea may alter the geopolitical balance in Northeast Asia. Over the weekend, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il visited the Russ...
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Patrick Cronin on Voice of America's The Platform
CNAS Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program Patrick Cronin talks to VOA’s The Platform about potential cooperation between China and Pakistan and how this affect...
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Command Post: "Is a Cyber Pearl Harbor on the Horizon?"
This week on Command Post, John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and I discuss the potential horror -- and the potential hype -- of cyber war with James Lewis of...
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This Weekend's News: Promoting Nuclear Energy Requires Navigating Proliferation Challenge
The New York Times reported yesterday that General Electric has successfully tested a new process for enriching uranium – with a laser. The process could make enriching uraniu...
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MG Jeffrey Buchanan, USA Discussion on Operation New Dawn: Bridge to an Enduring Partnership - Q&A
Iraq has the potential to become a pivotal strategic partner for the United States and its allies in the region. But Iraq is also undergoing its democratic transition and its ...
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MG Jeffrey Buchanan, USA Discussion on Operation New Dawn: Bridge to an Enduring Partnership - Remarks
In light of the impending end of the United States Forces–Iraq mission this December, Major General Jeffrey Buchanan, USA, Director of Strategic Effects for United States Forc...
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In the Arctic and South China Sea, U.S. Policymakers to Grapple with Similar Challenges
As my short time here at CNAS is just about over – having focused primarily on South China Sea research – it seems as though I will be leaving as the oil and gas rich Arctic r...
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War of the Camps, Revisted
The following is the unedited, full text of Hizballah's statement condemning the Syrian Navy's shelling of the Palestinian refugee camp at ar-Ramel: ...
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Budget Cuts Part III: Pre-funding Climate Catastrophe
In December 2010, the Obama administration released a bipartisan report from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform that, among other things, recommended ...
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Summer Reading
I am off for a week's vacation on the family farm in East Tennessee and will be away from the blog during that time, so I wanted to highlight a few reading suggestions while I...
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Did Pakistan Sell Out America?
The strategic partnership between the United States and Pakistan appears once again to be careening toward the brink of self-destruction. Reports that Pakistan may have given ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Reading the Israel Summer
I am very reluctant, as I have written, to provide any analysis of Israeli domestic politics based on such limited time spent in Israel and an inability to speak Hebrew and th...
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This Weekend’s News: In Pakistan, a Notable Reminder
Yesterday, Ajay Chhibber, assistant secretary general of the United Nations, assistant administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and UNDP regional directo...
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Israel, the United States, and Counterinsurgency
Yesterday, I wrapped up a really fun and interesting trip to Israel and, briefly, the Palestinian Territories. For a long time, I have insisted that there is really no substan...
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A Question for Rick Perry
When Sen. Barack Obama was running for president, it emerged that one of his informal advisors, former Clinton official Rob Malley, had met with members of Hamas as part of hi...
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Patience
I just returned from Israel today and will have a few days in Washington this week before traveling to the Holy Land* with my wife for some vacation on the family farm. I will...
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Command Post: "Does It Make Sense for Obama to Bar U.S. Combat Boots in Libya?"
War, first and foremost, is a collection of choices. When President Obama ruled out the use of U.S. military boots on the ground inside Libya, it may have made political sense...
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Command Post: "Why Did It Take the U.S. So Long to Recognize the Libyan Rebels?"
After five months of bombing the government of Muammar Gadaffi, the U.S. finally recognized Libya's rebel forces. Was this the right decision, and, if so -- why did it take so...
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34 Years of Successful COIN, Down the Drain
I just read a sentence in the International Herald Tribune that will have no doubt caused some British Army veterans a high degree of consternation: [Water cannons] have not p...