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This Weekend’s News: Is Iran Intentionally Breeding Uncertainty in the Global Oil Market?
Iran may be attempting to breed uncertainty in the global oil market in an effort to drive up prices and insulate itself from tightening economic sanctions, including those ag...
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The Economist Debate: Syria
The escalating bloodbath in Syria has long since reached the point at which the international community must act to protect Syrian civilians and to push for a political transi...
By Marc Lynch
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Military Options Likely Wouldn't Quell the Crisis in Syria
How should the United States, and the international community, respond to the escalating bloodbath in Syria? Over the last two months, the overwhelming weight of editorial and...
By Marc Lynch
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U.S.-Mexico Offshore Oil Agreement May Help Mexico Rejuvenate Oil Production
The United States and Mexico have come to an agreement that would allow both countries to drill for oil and natural gas along their maritime border in the Gulf of Mexico. Acco...
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The Iran Containment Fallacy
It has become increasingly fashionable in Jerusalem and Washington to advocate a military strike on Iran. Central to the case for war is the argument that a nuclear-armed Iran...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Pressure Not War
I have been busy teaching and writing of late, and the blog has been neglected. But when I have written on the blog, it has usually been to ask that we get serious about think...
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Cyber Security, Non-State Threats and the Electric Grid
U.S. security officials have expressed concern about the vulnerability of the electric grid to cyber attacks by non-state actors. Most experts agree that today the greatest cy...
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Will Iran Make Preemptive Strike?
Watch the latest video at <a href="/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://video.foxnews.com">http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com&...
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This Weekend’s News: The Geopolitical Story Behind Higher Oil Prices
There is a lot of chatter this morning about the potential for gas prices to hit $4 or $5 a gallon by Memorial Day, which could undermine stronger U.S. economic growth. Here a...
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Video - Counterinsurgency and Afghanistan: Experiences, Strategies and Perspectives
The future of European security policy is rapidly becoming a critical issue in the world. Facing transition in the NATO-led war in Afghanistan and rising budget pressures, the...
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Energy Programs in the FY 2013 Budget
Funding requests for energy and energy-related programs are prominent in President Obama’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 budget. Here’s a quick breakdown of the requests that jumped o...
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SOF Power
Special operations forces are one of the big winners in the Obama administration's new Pentagon budget request released this week. The budget cuts hundreds of billions of doll...
By Travis Sharp, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Earth Monitoring Systems in the FY 2013 Budget
The U.S. government’s fleet of Earth monitoring satellite systems is something that is near and dear to our hearts here in the natural security program. President Obama’s Fisc...
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Cyber Security and the Electric Grid in the FY 2013 Budget
Yesterday President Obama delivered his Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 budget request to Congress. We’ll spend the next few days digging through the relevant agencies to highlight some...
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This Weekend’s News: For the United States, a Balancing Act in the Asia Pacific
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III sees stronger U.S. –Philippine ties as an opportunity to amicably settle ongoing territorial disputes in the South China Sea, according...
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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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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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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...