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Rare Earths Piece at Danger Room
Today, the kind scribes at Danger Room allowed me to post a piece on rare earths in advance of tomorrow's official release of my new minerals report. Check out "Rare Earths Wo...
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In Libya, while you weren't looking...
...the rebels have been making some encouraging advances in and around Misurata. The reporting of C.J. Chivers both in the New York Times and on his Twitter feed has been esse...
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The Minerals Bibliography You've All Been Waiting For
As promised yesterday, I'm posting here a bibliography for minerals. This includes many articles and books I've read in researching the topic for the minerals report we'll be ...
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John Nagl in ... Paris Match
Bien sûr...
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Frontline: Kill/Capture
Click here to watch the video. Behind the strike that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1st was one of the U.S. military's best kept secrets: an extraordinary campaign by elite U....
By John A. Nagl
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Getting the CIA and DOD in Sync
President Barack Obama’s reshuffling of his national security team signals that the White House is likely to continue focusing heavily on its counterterrorism efforts in the M...
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The Least Encouraging Sentence You Will Ever Read in the Washington Post
From an article today by Greg Miller and Karen Brulliard: The Washington Post does not typically publish the names of intelligence officers working undercover. Well! Can you...
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Minerals Report Release Week
We’re planning to release our much-anticipated minerals report this week (followed by outstanding works by other CNASers in the weeks ahead). I know you’re all anxious, especi...
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Beyond Bin Laden: A Readers’ Guide
As some of you may know, I spent several days last week chained to a chair at my local coffee shop producing a chapter for a new e-book Random House is publishing on what the ...
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This Weekend’s News: Eye on ASEAN
Southeast Asian leaders concluded the 18th Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit this weekend. Coverage of the summit seemed to focus mostly on the protracted...
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Roundtable: Blame Pakistan?
Click here to watch the video. CNAS Senior Fellow Tom Ricks appears on This Week with Christiane Amanpour to discuss U.S.-Pakistan relations with George Will, Liz Cheney and...
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You realize they've never actually won a war, right?
If you've been following the reaction of Pakistanis to the killing of Osama bin Laden over the past week, it has been very difficult to not be impressed by folks like Mosharra...
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Summer Reading List: Foreign Policy’s “Food Issue”
When the articles in the new Foreign Policy “Food Issue” first hit my RSS feed about a week back, I snidely Tweeted: "Doesn't look like FP's food issue will stack up to Wired'...
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Summer Reading List: Future Faces of War
A few months back, we hosted Dr. Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba at CNAS to discuss her recent book, The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security. This should be one of th...
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Future of Al-Qaeda
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But seriously, which one of you was Osama bin Laden? (Updated)
Apparently my blog had a regular reader in Abbottabad. Anyone want to take a guess as to which nut-job Abu Muqawama commenter was really Osama bin Laden? Update: Solved! It wa...
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About that bin Laden joke...
Look at the face of the president at 2:21. Look at the laughing face of Sec. Gates just before him. This monologue is so great to watch in retrospect, knowing Gates and Obama ...
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Summer Reading List 2011
It’s getting warm outside. Tornadoes have already devastated swaths of the country. Gas prices are climbing. Summer is nearly upon us. And as we care deeply about how you spen...
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From Desert One to Abbottabad
I turns out there is some interest about this bin Laden fellow and what his death means, so I will be chained to the leg of a chair in a local coffee house, writing on deadlin...
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A New Kind Of Defense
The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant U.S. victory to date in the war on terrorism. Its full consequences may not be known for months or even years, but the ...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)