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Beijing’s South China Sea Bet
In January, CNAS published a study on the South China Sea with a chapter examining the geopolitical role of natural resources and how those resources affect state behavior acr...
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The Order of Battle Problem
As some of you may know, I have been shocked by the ease with which some in U.S. policy circles have begun to consider armed intervention in Syria. Many of these same people s...
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Read This Now: Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr. on the Arctic Frontier
For those of you who have not been following the national security or defense journals recently, the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings published in its February 2012 edition ...
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The Strait and Narrow
Chatham House published a new study last week examining the implications of maritime choke points for the global energy market. The study, Maritime Choke Points and the Global...
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This Weekend’s News: Watching the Price of Oil
There are several trends that are worth watching as they develop because they could affect the price of oil. Friday’s U.S. jobs report contributed to higher oil prices, in pa...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Military Intervention
Steven Cook, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Shadi Hamid and Dan Byman -- smart analysts whose work I always read and admire -- have all now argued we need to consider military interven...
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Natural Security News
The New York Times reports that severe winter weather could stymie a protest movement in Russia. A Malaysia, rare earths metal refinery is close to obtaining permission to ope...
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Hail to the Chief, Hail to Twitter
Last night's CNAS 5th anniversary celebration was a tremendous amount of fun. Although the precedings were off-the-record, I don't think I'm breaking any rules by confirming n...
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Navigating the Icy Arctic is No Ordinary Mission
Last Friday I pointed out that the U.S. Coast Guard Healy helped the Russian tanker Renda deliver 1.3 million gallons of fuel to Nome, Alaska. It may sound like a normal missi...
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"What Do We Call Them Again?" A Guest Post by Joel Smith and Mike Stinetorf
I have been busy for the past several days and have neglected the blog. I had meant to cross-post this Victoria Fontan offering, for example, on Carl Prine's blog but will ins...
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Events from Around Town: Offshore Oil & Gas in the Arctic - The Next Five Years
Last Thursday the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) hosted a panel on “Offshore Oil & Gas in the Arctic: The Next Five Years.” The event was focused on planned lease sal...
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Center for a New American Security Fifth Anniversary Celebration - President Clinton Video Tribute
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted an evening event on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, to celebrate its Fifth Anniversary and to commemorate five years of promoti...
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Twitter, Democracy, and Internet Freedom
Twitter has taken fire in recent days from activists and bloggers who fear that the company’s new censorship policies will muffle online freedom. News reports recall the ways ...
By Richard Fontaine
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This Weekend’s News: Chinese Economic Coercion in the South China Sea
Yesterday, China’s nationalist newspaper Global Times published a report arguing that Beijing should make the Philippines pay for increased cooperation with the United States,...
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What Americans Think About the Defense Budget
The New York Times generated a handy budget calculator that allowed its readers to trim dollars off the budget of the Department of Defense. As my colleague Travis Sharp noted...
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The Pentagon's Way Forward
The new defense guidance and budget request released by the Pentagon can best be described as “pivot-but-hedge” approaches to global engagement. Set against the backdrop of re...
By Nora Bensahel, Travis Sharp, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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U.S. Must Ensure Relations with India don’t Fracture over Iran
Iran is the crisis of the hour in Washington, and for the first time in recent memory talk now routinely turns to military action. In an effort to forestall Tehran’s pursuit o...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China’s Global Quest for Resources and Implications for the United StatesOn January 26th, Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, CNAS Senior Advisor and Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program, testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Com...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Ends, Ways and Means
I think it is possible and even appropriate to question whether or not this administration has gotten everything right in terms of the ends, ways and means in our strategy. Bu...
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U.S. Policy Shift on Nuclear Energy and the Impact on Proliferation Concerns
Yesterday,The Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration has decided to withdraw its demand for countries pursuing nuclear energy development to relinquish the...