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The Leverage Problem
For the past several months, I've been working on a big project related to U.S. policy toward the Middle East at the Center for a New American Security. (My research partner i...
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An Uncertain Future for Iraq As U.S. Leaves
Transcript: The United States marks the end of the war in Iraq. As U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta attends the final flag ceremony, he did not speak of victory in Iraq and...
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As U.S. Troops Leave, Iraq Remains Beset by Resource Challenges
The U.S. military officially declared an end to its mission in Iraq today. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, speaking in Baghdad, said that Iraq has shown remarkable progress...
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Commentary: Americans can agree that the Iraq war was a mistake
This was a preventive war designed to prevent Iraq from using or proliferating its presumed weapons of mass destruction to terrorists or terrorist states, but those weapons di...
By John A. Nagl
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Could Climate Change Affect Efforts to Become More Energy Secure?
The question of whether climate change could affect a country’s efforts to become more energy secure is thought provoking, and, as I suspect, less abstract than not. Many of t...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
'Angaetsok Election' Next Administration Korea Policy?As former Massachusetts governor, a Democratic presidential candidate, former Governor of dyukakiseu ago in a recent interview with Channel A Republican presidential candidate...
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Your Dumb Government at Work
Distinguished scholar and strategist Steve Metzcomplained earlier today on his Twitter account that he had cancelled a presentation he was scheduled to give at the British Int...
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What Affect is the Navy Having on the Cost of Alternative Fuels?
The Navy’s investment in algae biofuel is having a significant impact on the cost of alternative fuels. Earlier this year, the Navy announced a request for 450,000 gallons of ...
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This Weekend’s News: Durban Climate Talks End with Promise for Future Progress
The New York Times reported late yesterday that the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa ended o...
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Cutbacks and crises
The subject of the hour in defense circles is guessing how deeply the defense budget is going to be cut as the U.S. economy retrenches, and which services will be winners and ...
By USA (Ret.) & Robert Killebrew
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The danger of military success
Most American military specialists know about Stonewall Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant, but not many study the Duke of Wellington and his campaigns on the Spanish Peninsula. The...
By USA (Ret.) & Robert Killebrew
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Can China and the United States Develop Stronger Military Ties Through Environmental Cooperation?
Yesterday, U.S. and Chinese officials met in Beijing for their annual military review, known as the Defense Consultative Talks. The meeting between the countries’ senior defen...
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Afghan Strategy Begins to Make Gains
To U.S. voters weary of war after a decade of casualties, high costs and frustration, the conflict in Afghanistan may look like a quagmire. The accepted image now seems to be ...
By John A. Nagl
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In Remembering Pearl Harbor, Brief Thoughts about Energy and War Fighting Capability
At a briefing yesterday before the Defense Energy Security Caucus, Admiral Philip Cullom, director of the Navy’s Energy and Environmental Readiness Division, spoke to the Navy...
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Read This Now: Coast Guard - Observations on Arctic Requirements, Icebreakers, and Coordination with Stakeholders
On December 1, 2011, the Government Accountability Office released a new report on the Coast Guard’s Arctic capability that is worth reading in full. The report cautions that ...
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Just to be clear, COIN isn't going away. (Because IN isn't going away.)
According to the Correlates of War dataset, roughly 83% of the conflicts fought since the end of the Napoleonic Era have been civil wars or insurgencies. And while scholarship...
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On the Cost of DOD Energy in Afghanistan
This morning, The Wall Street Journal rightly reported that the United States faces considerable costs with fueling its forces in Afghanistan, both in blood and treasure. The ...
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The Next Fight: Time for a Mission Change in Afghanistan
LTG Dave Barno, Matt Irvine and I have a new policy paper out at CNAS, which you can read here. This paper is in a lot of ways the logical follow-on to our Responsible Transit...
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This Weekend’s News: Up, Up and Away?
As international delegates kickoff the second week of annual climate change negotiations in Durban, South Africa, The New York Times reported on Sunday that global carbon emis...
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National Security Human Capital
Understanding and Preventing Veteran SuicideOn December 2nd, Dr. Margaret C. Harrell, CNAS Senior Fellow and Director of the Joining Forces Initiative, testified before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Subcommit...
By Margaret C. Harrell