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What You Need to Know About the CIA Getting Rolled Up in Lebanon. That, and Larry Munson. (Updated)
As some of you may or may not already know, Hizballah, together with the Lebanese government, has rolled up what is believed to be the vast majority of the assets of the Centr...
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Stop What You Are Doing And Read These Two Things
In an essay on the alleged crimes at Penn State, Iraq War veteran Thomas L. Day does the best job of anyone summing up why I am so frustrated with the generation that precedes...
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Cluster Munitions Hypocrisy
I am in Oslo, where I had the rewarding if intimidating experience of delivering two lectures to Brynjar Lia, Thomas Hegghammer and their fellow researchers at FFI yesterday. ...
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National Security Human Capital Program
Command Post: "Does Fear of Getting Mental-Health Help Drive Up Suicide in the Military?"The military has long known that many troops won't take advantage of the roster of mental-health care options the military offers. That's because they fear the stigma it might...
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More on the DSB Climate and Security Report: Earth Monitoring Satellites
The Defense Science Board’s new report, Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Security, is getting some good traction. As I promised in my l...
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In Brief: State Department Refocuses Efforts to Manage Energy Geopolitics
The State Department’s new Bureau of Energy Resources will open today in a reorganization of the department’s efforts to manage the geopolitical implications of energy resourc...
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Read This Now: Defense Science Board Report on Climate Change and Security
Last Thursday, the Defense Science Board (DSB) released its report on climate change and security, Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Sec...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A with Steve Inskeep
On a recent plane ride home from Germany, I finished Steve Inskeep's Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, which I can recommend to all of you with confidence. I was, as I ...
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Command Post: "What Will Iraq Be Like in 2012?"
Thousands of U.S. troops are now heading home from Iraq every week. By New Year's Eve, the 45,000 who were there on Oct. 21 when President Obama announced their final pullout,...
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A STRATFOR Conversation: George Friedman and Special Guest Robert Kaplan
There is widespread international debate on the extent to which China's naval expansions pose a threat to U.S. dominance of the world's oceans. George Friedman and author and ...
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How Iran Bomb Could Threaten Peace
Editor's note: Patrick M. Cronin is senior adviser and senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, a nonpartisan research o...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Opinion: Find ways to keep quality midgrades
It’s been a tough decade for the U.S. Army. Like the rest of the nation, it was unprepared for the asymmetric attacks of Sept. 11. Special Forces teams, with CIA agents and Ai...
By John A. Nagl
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This Weekend’s News: For China, Pursuit of Nuclear Power Requires Some Outside Help
China is just one of the many East and Southeast Asian states that continues to pursue nuclear power in the wake of the March 2011 disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclea...
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Military Suicides a Wake-Up Call for Overstretched U.S. Force
For many, Veterans Day will bring parades honoring those who have served as well as a chance to pause and reflect upon those who are willing to pay, and have paid, the ultimat...
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Military Suicides
Margaret Harrell talked about military suicides and mental health programs available to veterans. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications....
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Happy Veterans Day
Happy Veterans Day from the Natural Security blog. We're taking the day to honor all those who have served, and are giving thanks to those who continue to serve the country. ...
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Command Post: "Do Frequent Military Deployments Increase Suicide?"
The military has been seeking the causes of a spike in military suicides for the last several years so it can begin knocking it down. New evidence just coming to light makes c...
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What’s Trending in the South China Sea?
CNAS is just several weeks away from publishing a major study on the South China Sea (look for it sometime early in January 2012). But with U.S. and other East Asian leaders p...
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China's Cyber Moves Hurting Beijing
A new report by an arm of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence confirms what officials have privately lamented for several years: the United States is the target of a v...
By Richard Fontaine
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Events from Around Town: The Climate and Energy Nexus
Starting at 9 a.m. this morning, our friends at the Pew Center for Global Climate Change are hosting an event at the Newseum in Washington, “Toward Climate and Energy Solution...