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And now, let me wade on into three ongoing, unrelated controversies with both guns blazing...
Ready? 1. This nonsense about adding new medals to recognize service in Iraq and Afghanistan is just as ridiculous as people have been saying, and for even more reasons. The w...
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On Nation Building
Max Boot's provocative op-ed in the Los Angeles Times in defense of nation-building has been getting people excited and angry. Max: If you want yet another example of how cos...
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Random Thoughts
CNAS is closed for the week, so I am at home catching up on my reading and workouts. A few random thoughts, though: 1. The Dutch are justifiably ashamed of what happened -- an...
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Happy Fourth
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Summer Reading List: Rising Tide
Among the books on my shelf that have sat there for years, awaiting their turn at the head of my queue, was John M. Barry’s 1997 tome Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood ...
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Summer Reading List: Player One
As CNAS is on vacation this week, we continue our Summer Reading List recommendations. Enjoy! You’ll never guess who is writing about peak oil these days. Douglas Coupland. Ye...
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Summer Reading List: Scientific American, For the Last Time
CNAS is closed this week. We bloggers have dispersed far away from Washington. For those who must spend their days at desks, this week we bring you our second Summer Reading L...
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Summer Minerals Reading List: “Elements of Security: Mitigating the Risks of U.S. Dependence on Critical Minerals” and “Rare Earth Elements in National Defense: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options”
Not surprisingly there has been greater attention to critical minerals recently, including potential U.S. vulnerability with dependence on rare earth elements. The increased f...
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When STL is not an airport in Missouri
As the names of those indicted by the special tribunal for Lebanon begin to leak out, please go to Qifa Nabki for invaluable background reading on the tribunal itself....
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On Drones
I just finished Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann's essay on drone strikes in Foreign Affairs and recommend it. I especially agreed with the concluding recommendations, whi...
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Thank You
I would be remiss if I did not say anything about Sec. Gates today. I have never met the man but greatly appreciated the way in which he brought greater accountability to the ...
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Back in the USSA, Part IV: Readings
There are two items of note I want to highlight to which I was not able to draw attention while traveling. The first is this post by my friend Steve Negus on Issandr's blog on...
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With U.S. Troops Continuing to Drawdown from Iraq, Many Challenges Remain
As the U.S. military continues its drawdown of troops from Iraq – with the last of those troops to leave by December 31, 2011 – policymakers and analysts are likely to raise c...
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Picking through Tim Pawlenty's Middle East Speech
Let's give Gov. Tim Pawlenty some credit for wading into the Middle East in a serious policy speech yesterday. I'm going to pick through it in this post, taking major issue wi...
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Back in the USSA, Part III: Afghanistan
I was unable to hear the president give his speech on Afghanistan, but it does not seem to have pleased many people. Reading it a few days later, I had a similar reaction of d...
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Back in the USSA, Part II: Apologies, and Food & Drink
First off, let me apologize for the lack of spam moderation in the comments while I was away. I checked the blog a few days ago and was appalled. So please accept my apologies...
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Back in the USSA, Part I: Dissertation
As some of you know, I have been traveling for the past 10 days in Europe. My wife and I celebrated two weddings, one in London and one in Milan. The London wedding celebrated...
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Debate Continues on Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
YesterdayWired’s Danger Room reported that last week the Senate Armed Services Committee recommended $150 million in cuts to DARPA’s budget. Included in those cuts, the SASC s...
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A New Vision For The Guard, Reserves
It is time for fundamental change in the post-9/11 National Guard and reserves. It is also time to embrace the lessons of the past nine years and start thinking about a reserv...
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This Weekend’s News: New Thinking on Adapting to Inexorable Sea-level Rise
Yesterday, The Washington Post reported that there is new advice for vulnerable coastal communities on how to adapt to risings seas: move away from the shore. The Post report...