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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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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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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...
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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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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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"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 sales...