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This Weekend’s News: Ironing Out Corruption in Afghanistan’s Mining Sector
Resource challenges continue to play a role in shaping the security environment in Afghanistan. Yesterday, Reuters reported that Afghan warlords could exacerbate violence near...
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Defense and the Budget
Because Republicans refuse to raise taxes (ever) and Democrats refuse to cut entitlements (ever), the big loser in yesterday's deficit reduction deal is defense spending. As E...
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Monday Morning Reading
Two things to start your week: 1. Nick Blanford and Bilal Saab have a great article in Foreign Policy about the next war between Israel and Lebanon. I have read the paper from...
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Command Post: "Should The U.S. Military Be the World's Cop?"
Following World War II, perhaps it was inevitable that the U.S. military would be consigned to walking beats around the world like a neighborhood cop -- from Europe to Asia --...
By Nora Bensahel
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National Security Human Capital
Video: Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons, Part ThreeOn July 28, 2011, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a major report, Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons, w...
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Video: Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons, Part TwoOn July 28, 2011, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a major report, Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons, w...
By Richard Danzig
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Video: Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons, Part One
On July 28, 2011, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a major report, Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons, w...
By Nathaniel C. Fick & Richard Danzig
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Command Post: "Is U.S. Military Personnel Policy Ready For The 21st Century?"Many experts say the industrial-era personnel system still in use by the Pentagon -- with its up-or-out promotions, its non-vesting pension system for the first 20 years, and ...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Do the right thing, Rolling Stone
I'm with Carl. Like Carl, I did not criticize the piece of reporting that got GEN Stan McChrystal, a man I very much admire, fired.* But the Michael Hastings hit piece on LTG ...
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Events Around Town: Aum Shinrikyo and DOD Energy
We are over at the Willard InterContinental Hotel this morning for the report launch of Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons. Th...
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CNAS Senior Fellow David Barno Testifies on Afghanistan Before House Armed Services Committee
CNAS Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor Lieutenant General David W. Barno USA (ret.) testifies before the House Armed Services Committee in an open hearing on Wednesday, July 27...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Book Review: China's Energy Strategy
I did most of my reading of China’s Energy Strategy: The Impact on Beijing's Maritime Policies in airports and on planes to and around Asia earlier this year. I can honestly c...
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The Peak of Absurdity?
Tripoli and other Qadhdhafi-held areas of Libya are now suffering from crippling shortages of both food and fuel. I want to prepare you all for the very real possibility that ...
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Command Post: "Is U.S. National Security Gun-Heavy And Butter-Light?"
One of the intriguing things about recently-departed defense secretary Robert Gates -- pretty much a lifetime spy -- was his concern that the U.S. toolkit was out of whack whe...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Command Post: "Does The U.S. Military Have Too Many Air Forces?"As the Defense Department looks to the future, how many of its pieces -- redundant air forces and duplicate armies among them -- are really needed for the nation's security? H...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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From the Dept. of Silly Things Written About Good Journalists
I do not know Sharmine Narwani, but she has written one of the more bizarre pieces on Hizballah and Lebanon I have read in quite some time -- and took some unfair shots at a f...
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In Yemen, Water, Fuel and Food Prices Rise as Political Crisis Worsens
Yemen’s political crisis seems to be worsening. On Sunday, New York Times Magazine writer Robert Worth’s recent account was simply titled “Yemen on the Brink of Hell.” Meanwhi...
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Command Post: "How Tough Is Cutting $400 Billion?"Just how tough is it going to be for the Pentagon and other national-security agencies to cut $400 billion from their spending between now and 2023? Those are the marching ord...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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This Weekend’s News: A Softer Tone in the Asia-Pacific Region
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up her trip to the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum on Friday after speaking to delegates with a...
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Hizballah on the Wrong Side of History
You think the United States has played its hand poorly during the Arab Spring? Hizballah busied themselves airing claims I am some kind of spy over the weekend, but if I were...