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Read This Now: U.S. Navy Arctic Environmental Assessment
The U.S. Navy’s Task Force Climate Change recently released its latest assessment in support of the Navy’s Arctic Roadmap. What I found particular interesting given our work ...
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The Alternative U.S. Army Professional Reading List
I have a tremendous amount of admiration for Gen. Marty Dempsey, but his professional reading list for the U.S. Army (.pdf) leaves a lot to be desired. As a service to the rea...
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Libya, 24 August 2011
I have been on vacation for the past week, largely away from both the internet and television in rural Tennessee, and I missed most coverage of the rebel advance into Tripoli....
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In the Arctic, Difficult Choices Loom about U.S. Military Capability
Military activity is on the rise in the Arctic. The Canadian military, for example, is bolstering its presence in the region, in part to offset Russian influence and to prepar...
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In Northeast Asia, Energy May Alter the Geopolitical Balance
A potential energy deal between Russia and North Korea may alter the geopolitical balance in Northeast Asia. Over the weekend, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il visited the Russ...
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This Weekend's News: Promoting Nuclear Energy Requires Navigating Proliferation Challenge
The New York Times reported yesterday that General Electric has successfully tested a new process for enriching uranium – with a laser. The process could make enriching uraniu...
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In the Arctic and South China Sea, U.S. Policymakers to Grapple with Similar Challenges
As my short time here at CNAS is just about over – having focused primarily on South China Sea research – it seems as though I will be leaving as the oil and gas rich Arctic r...
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Summer Reading
I am off for a week's vacation on the family farm in East Tennessee and will be away from the blog during that time, so I wanted to highlight a few reading suggestions while I...
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Budget Cuts Part III: Pre-funding Climate Catastrophe
In December 2010, the Obama administration released a bipartisan report from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform that, among other things, recommended ...
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War of the Camps, Revisted
The following is the unedited, full text of Hizballah's statement condemning the Syrian Navy's shelling of the Palestinian refugee camp at ar-Ramel: ...
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Reading the Israel Summer
I am very reluctant, as I have written, to provide any analysis of Israeli domestic politics based on such limited time spent in Israel and an inability to speak Hebrew and th...
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This Weekend’s News: In Pakistan, a Notable Reminder
Yesterday, Ajay Chhibber, assistant secretary general of the United Nations, assistant administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and UNDP regional directo...
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Israel, the United States, and Counterinsurgency
Yesterday, I wrapped up a really fun and interesting trip to Israel and, briefly, the Palestinian Territories. For a long time, I have insisted that there is really no substan...
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A Question for Rick Perry
When Sen. Barack Obama was running for president, it emerged that one of his informal advisors, former Clinton official Rob Malley, had met with members of Hamas as part of hi...
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Patience
I just returned from Israel today and will have a few days in Washington this week before traveling to the Holy Land* with my wife for some vacation on the family farm. I will...
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34 Years of Successful COIN, Down the Drain
I just read a sentence in the International Herald Tribune that will have no doubt caused some British Army veterans a high degree of consternation: [Water cannons] have not p...
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Book Review: Hack the Planet
Geoengineering – intentionally altering the climate, often discussed as a means of countering the already-in-process warming from greenhouse gases – has long been a favorite t...
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Budget Cuts Part II: Foreign Aid
It seems inevitable that the soft power side of the natural security world will take a hit in the upcoming round of budget cuts. Foreign operations already took sizable hits e...
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Budget Cuts & DOD Energy
We’d be remiss (and possibly lose all cred as think-tankers) if we didn’t ponder what the debt crisis and upcoming budget cuts meant for the issues of focus for this blog. To ...
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This Weekend's News: Hiroshima & the Nuclear Future
In terms of the news, we all have to agree that this was a pretty awful weekend. Dozens of Americans and their local counterparts were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanis...