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Satellites You Need to Know: Jason-1, Jason-2 and the Ocean
The Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites were built and run by France and the United States and launched on December 7, 2001 and June 20, 2008 respectively. As the successor satelli...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China’s Current and Emerging Foreign Policy PrioritiesCNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Richard Weitz testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on the current status of Sino-Russian relations....
By Richard Weitz
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The U.S. Response to the Egyptian Revolution(s)
From Anouar Abdel-Malek's Egypt: Military Society: The United States ambassador in Cairo, Jefferson Caffery, enjoyed the most cordial relations with the military group; his su...
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Lessons from Libya: DOD’s Long-term Energy Strategy Needs International Plan of Action
The U.S. and NATO military mission in Libya offers an important lesson for the Department of Defense as the U.S. military continues its development, testing, evaluation and im...
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Yet Another EU Subsidy
Here's the way this read in today's Washington Post: “The Americans have the numbers of planes, and the Americans have the right equipment,” said Francois Heisbourg, a militar...
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From the Dept. of Wonderful Advice (Pot & Kettle Edition)
From an anonymous Pakistani official: [You] can’t have us as your ally and treat us as your adversary at the same time. It would be a lot easier to trust the ISI if our own i...
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Book Review: Treasures of the Earth by Saleem Ali
Saleem Ali’s 2009 book, Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, arrived at my desk at just the right time last fall. I’ve been working on a new report on...
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Abu Muqawama Salutes ...
... GEN George Casey. Military historians and other security studies scholars will long debate what GEN Casey did or did not do in Iraq from 2004 until 2007, but that is not t...
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Really, Google?
So Google chooses today to celebrate the achievements of a brutal totalitarian regime (that one of its founders fled!) instead of the 150th anniversary of the war that freed t...
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Harpies?!
I have voiced both my admiration for and disagreements with Andrew Bacevich in the past, and I too chuckled at the things my mother used to tell me about how we would never go...
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Why It's Hard For Strongmen To Leave
By any rational standard, it would seem that the fighting and power struggles in the Ivory Coast, Libya, and Yemen should have been over weeks ago. Maybe soon they all will be...
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Twilight of a Strongman
Over the past decade, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been the quintessential U.S. ally in the Middle East -- a useful, mercurial dictator who rules through a combinat...
By Richard Fontaine
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Military Spending Must Be Part of the Deficit Debate
The budget compromise reached by the White House and Congress this weekend included a "historic amount of cuts," as House Speaker John Boehner and Senate majority leader Harry...
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Japan’s New Deal Opportunity
Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered office in the midst of an historic internal disaster, the Great Depression. But although FDR exuded the confidence to inspire a nation, he l...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Abu Muqawama Goes Jihad on the VA (UPDATED)
I have a lot of love for the hard-working people at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, but when Foreign Policy asked me what parts of the government should shut down and stay shut...
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The Crisis in Civil-Military Relations That Wasn't
When the president fired Gen. Stan McChrystal last year, a chorus of pundits rushed to proclaim the United States faced a crisis in civil-military relations. I do not want to ...
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This Weekend’s News: A New Biofuel Boom?
On Saturday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Agriculture will offer grants and loans to gas station owners to install “new ‘blender pumps’ so drivers c...
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The REAL Reason We Were Serving Bud Light Lime at Friday's Hail & Farewell*
I just want to say, in all seriousness, that I am very proud my employer is partnering with the White House and Gen. Stan McChrystal in a new initiative in support of military...
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High-Tech 1, Low-Tech 0
Americans have what the Irish scholar Theo Farrell has called a technology fetish in our strategic culture. As someone who has spent most of my life fighting in and studying l...
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The Heretical Question of the Day
Here's a question for NATO officials: far be it for me to stick up for the ethics and values of the fighting forces of Moammar Gadhafi, but your description of "using human sh...