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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...
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Happy Veterans Day
Happy Veterans Day from the Natural Security blog. We're taking the day to honor all those who have served, and are giving thanks to those who continue to serve the country. ...
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Military Suicides
Margaret Harrell talked about military suicides and mental health programs available to veterans. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications....
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Military Suicides a Wake-Up Call for Overstretched U.S. Force
For many, Veterans Day will bring parades honoring those who have served as well as a chance to pause and reflect upon those who are willing to pay, and have paid, the ultimat...
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Command Post: "Do Frequent Military Deployments Increase Suicide?"
The military has been seeking the causes of a spike in military suicides for the last several years so it can begin knocking it down. New evidence just coming to light makes c...
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What’s Trending in the South China Sea?
CNAS is just several weeks away from publishing a major study on the South China Sea (look for it sometime early in January 2012). But with U.S. and other East Asian leaders p...
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China's Cyber Moves Hurting Beijing
A new report by an arm of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence confirms what officials have privately lamented for several years: the United States is the target of a va...
By Richard Fontaine
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Events from Around Town: The Climate and Energy Nexus
Starting at 9 a.m. this morning, our friends at the Pew Center for Global Climate Change are hosting an event at the Newseum in Washington, “Toward Climate and Energy Solution...
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Improve Mental-Health Care for Our Troops
"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earli...
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Command Post: "Iraq: Was That Lack of Immunity for U.S. Troops Simply an Excuse to Pull Out?"
The Obama Administration has said it had no choice but to pull out of Iraq by year's end after the Iraqi parliament made it clear it would not grant U.S. troops immunity from ...
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On the Agenda: Pacific Rim Nations Meet at APEC to Discuss Green Energy Technologies
The annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is underway in Honolulu. Trade representatives from the United States, China and 19 other countries will meet this w...
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This Weekend’s News: A Look at the Global Swing States, Beginning with Brazil
CNAS is ramping up a fascinating project on the global swing states. Last week, my colleagues Richard Fontaine and Dan Kliman published an op-ed in World Politics Review about...
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Three Views on the United States and Iraq
I want to highlight three op-eds on the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. The first is by Brett McGurk, an early supporter within the Bush Administration for the "Surge" who later he...