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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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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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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...
By Programs
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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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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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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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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...
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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. 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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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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Supremely Irrelevant
One year ago today, Egyptians took to the streets to demand the removal of Hosni Mubarak's three-decade-old dictatorship. As they waved flags and chanted for the fall of the r...
By Colin H. Kahl
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The Debate Over COIN ... and the Future of the U.S. Army
I apologize for not writing on the blog this week. I have a lot of posts in my head but have been busy with other activities -- and writing for other websites. Judah Grunstein...
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Time for a National Dialogue on the Arctic
Last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released its report, “A New Security Architecture for the Arctic: An American Perspective." The report pr...
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On the State of the Union Address
President Obama will deliver his third State of the Union Address tonight. With the focus on the economy and jobs creation, we’re not likely to hear much from the president on...
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This Weekend’s News: Eyes on Nigeria
As I wrote in last weekend’s roundup, there is a lot of uncertainty looming in Nigeria that could impact the global oil market. A weeklong row between the government and labor...
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For China, Economic Leverage in the Arctic May Be Part of the Long Game
A new post by Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins in The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report blog paints a great picture of how economic opportunities in the Arctic may ...
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Read This Now: USAID Climate Change and Development Strategy
Last week, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) released its new climate change and development strategy. The document, according to USAID Administrator Rajiv...