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This Weekend's News: On Nuclear Energy
I’ll start this wrap-up with the coolest natural security-related news from the weekend: the Navy has sent some submarines to the Arctic on exercises to do who knows exactly w...
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Libya, the Obama Administration, and Communication
From NPR: President Obama addresses the nation on U.S. military operations in Libya Monday night. The operation started nine days ago. Since then, Obama has faced criticis...
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Hosford and Exum on Libya
Zack Hosford and I have collaborated on a new policy brief for the Center for a New American Security. The .pdf is just five pages, so you should take a few minutes to read it...
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National Security Human Capital Program
Tom Ricks on Meet the PressVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun
Despite the military drama unfolding in Libya, the Middle East is only beginning to unravel. American policy-makers have been spoiled by events in Tunisia and Egypt, both of w...
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In My Hometown, Even Pacifists Sometimes Receive the Medal of Honor
I was home on block leave one year and in the Kinko's on Brainerd Road when this old man walked past me wearing a hat that read "Congressional Medal of Honor Society." With a ...
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How Not to Understand Regime Survival in the Arabic-Speaking World
This David Brooks op-ed on Moammar Ghadafi and Libya makes a really broad claim about regime survival based on a single case study. I like David Brooks in part because he take...
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3 Hours
That's how long it took U.S. Marines to recover a downed aviator in Libya. Or, as one of my co-workers put it, "I've been stuck on Metro for longer than that." ...
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Obama’s Reorg: Keep It or Cut It? Part III
If there is one thing we should be able to agree on this week, it’s that tsunami early warning systems are a good investment. A few weeks back we began examining how the pendi...
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U.S. Military Intervention in Libya
CNAS Deputy Director of Studies and Senior Fellow Nora Bensahel talked about the U.S. and coalition’s military strategy in Libya and the precedent that this air strike in Liby...
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Earth Observation Satellites and the Crises in Japan
We’ve discussed earth observation satellites a number of times on this blog in the past few weeks. Much of our focus thus far has been on the utility of these satellites in he...
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Sketching the Wounded
The stories that go along with these moving sketches remind us of the human cost of war. This is a great series....
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Japan Benefit: One Night for Nippon
Join CNAS tomorrow night to help support our Japanese friends in the wake of the devastating 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck the island nation on March 11, 2011. CNAS ...
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Static, One-Dimensional Analysis 1; Dynamic, Multi-Dimensional Analysis 0
I was re-reading the national security adviser's remarks to the media on 10 March 2011 in which he cautioned Jake Tapper and others against putting too much stock in the analy...
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On Disclosure, and Our War in Libya
Laura Rozen reports: The Obama White House is stepping up its outreach to policy hands on Capitol Hill, as well as to outside foreign policy experts and progressive allies, in...
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The Ties that Bind? U.S.–Indian Values-based Cooperation
CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine co-authored a Washington Quarterly article about the evolution of U.S.-India relations. Both New Delhi and Washington have rhetorically inv...
By Richard Fontaine
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Two Administrative Notes
1. Man, is this overdue: Please join me in welcoming defense journalist and Iraq veteran Carl Prine to the blogosphere. Carl was long one of this blog's most incisive (if pseu...
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Two Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan That May Not Apply to Libya (But Probably Do)
We all learned different lessons from our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. One lesson I learned was that you should always robustly plan for stabilization and reconstructi...
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From the Dept. of Unfortunate Headlines
The cover of this week's Weekly Standard: ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH Considering this past weekend's operations were jointly led by the French, Kristol & Co. probably coul...
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A Message on World Water Day 2011
Today marks the eighteenth annual World Water Day, an annual UN-sponsored day to recognize the importance of water management and the role that it plays in civil society – and...