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Read This Now - Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs To Know
For those of you traveling this holiday weekend and looking for a good book to pass your time with, I recommend Dr. Charles Ferguson’s Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to K...
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Syria and Other Wars Without End
Syria is in the early stages of what every indication suggests could become a long, cruel, and bloody civil war. In the early hours last Wednesday morning, the Free Syrian Arm...
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Command Post: "Is the Change the U.S. Brought to Iraq Likely to Last?"
U.S. forces will be out of Iraq by the end of next month, after a nearly nine-year stay. Just how permanent are the changes the U.S. military and diplomatic corps have tried t...
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Christmas Comes Early for the Obama Administration in Afghanistan
Reading through the 76-point resolution produced by Afghanistan's Loya Jerga, I was struck by how welcome so many of these points will be inside the White House. Afghan leader...
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What Should U.S. Arctic Capabilities Look Like?
Last Monday, Businessweekpublished an excerpt from a new book by David Fairhall, Cold Front: Conflict Ahead in Arctic Waters. Besides the provocative title (which, by focusing...
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Cuts to Defense Budget Might Be Inevitable, but Pentagon Knows Best
Cuts to the defense budget are necessary because today's elected leaders and their constituents seek policies that are not mutually sustainable. Lawmakers feel broad pressure ...
By Nora Bensahel
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This Weekend’s News: Recapping the East Asia Summit
President Obama returned stateside on Sunday after a nine-day trip across the Asia Pacific, ending with a stop at the East Asia Summit in Bali over the weekend. The president’...
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What You Need to Know About the CIA Getting Rolled Up in Lebanon. That, and Larry Munson. (Updated)
As some of you may or may not already know, Hizballah, together with the Lebanese government, has rolled up what is believed to be the vast majority of the assets of the Centr...
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Stop What You Are Doing And Read These Two Things
In an essay on the alleged crimes at Penn State, Iraq War veteran Thomas L. Day does the best job of anyone summing up why I am so frustrated with the generation that precedes...
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Cluster Munitions Hypocrisy
I am in Oslo, where I had the rewarding if intimidating experience of delivering two lectures to Brynjar Lia, Thomas Hegghammer and their fellow researchers at FFI yesterday. ...
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National Security Human Capital
Command Post: "Does Fear of Getting Mental-Health Help Drive Up Suicide in the Military?"The military has long known that many troops won't take advantage of the roster of mental-health care options the military offers. That's because they fear the stigma it might...
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More on the DSB Climate and Security Report: Earth Monitoring Satellites
The Defense Science Board’s new report, Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Security, is getting some good traction. As I promised in my l...
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In Brief: State Department Refocuses Efforts to Manage Energy Geopolitics
The State Department’s new Bureau of Energy Resources will open today in a reorganization of the department’s efforts to manage the geopolitical implications of energy resourc...
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How Iran Bomb Could Threaten Peace
Editor's note: Patrick M. Cronin is senior adviser and senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, a nonpartisan research o...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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A STRATFOR Conversation: George Friedman and Special Guest Robert Kaplan
There is widespread international debate on the extent to which China's naval expansions pose a threat to U.S. dominance of the world's oceans. George Friedman and author and ...
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Command Post: "What Will Iraq Be Like in 2012?"
Thousands of U.S. troops are now heading home from Iraq every week. By New Year's Eve, the 45,000 who were there on Oct. 21 when President Obama announced their final pullout,...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A with Steve Inskeep
On a recent plane ride home from Germany, I finished Steve Inskeep's Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, which I can recommend to all of you with confidence. I was, as I ...
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Read This Now: Defense Science Board Report on Climate Change and Security
Last Thursday, the Defense Science Board (DSB) released its report on climate change and security, Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Sec...
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Opinion: Find ways to keep quality midgrades
It’s been a tough decade for the U.S. Army. Like the rest of the nation, it was unprepared for the asymmetric attacks of Sept. 11. Special Forces teams, with CIA agents and Ai...
By John A. Nagl
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This Weekend’s News: For China, Pursuit of Nuclear Power Requires Some Outside Help
China is just one of the many East and Southeast Asian states that continues to pursue nuclear power in the wake of the March 2011 disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclea...