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Hizballah and the United States: Stuck in the Middle With You
What does Hizballah have in common with the United States aside from a love of paintball? Hizballah, like the United States, would be caught up in a conflict between Iran and...
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The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
In The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East, Dr. Marc Lynch, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at CNAS and Director of the Institute for Middle East Studi...
By Marc Lynch
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COL Robert Killebrew Testifies Before House Armed Services Committee on Understanding Future Irregular Warfare Challenges
On March 27, COL Robert Killebrew, USA (Ret.), CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow, testified before the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabi...
By USA (Ret.) & Robert Killebrew
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Video - The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., CNAS hosted a book launch for The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East by Dr. Marc Lynch, Non-Re...
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Video Highlights - The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., CNAS hosted a book launch for The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East by Dr. Marc Lynch, Non-Re...
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On Terrorism Experts
As those of you who follow my Twitter feed know, I have been drawn into a debate between Glenn Greenwald and Will McCants about whether or not one can be a "terrorism expert."...
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From the New Security Beat - Global Water Security Calls for U.S. Leadership, Says Intelligence Assessment
As I mentioned last week on World Water Day, the intelligence community released its assessment on Global Water Security, timed very well I thought with Secretary of State Hil...
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This Weekend’s News: Renewed Attention on the Arctic
U.S. policymakers and military officials are giving the Arctic some more attention. On Saturday, The Navy Times reported on the Coast Guard’s request to Congress to purchase a...
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Your Weekend Reading: Paintball with Hizballah
There are three kinds of potential employers in Washington, DC: Those who would never hire me because I play paintball with terrorists. Those who would hire me in spite of the...
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Primer: The 2012 Nuclear Security Summit
On March 25-26, 2012, the second Nuclear Security Summit (NSS), an international conference on global nuclear issues, will take place in Seoul, South Korea. The guest list has...
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2012 World Water Day
Today is World Water Day, a day to promote awareness of the acute water and food shortages plaguing the estimated 1 out of 8 persons that lack reliable access to clean drinkin...
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Halting the Descent: U.S. Policy Toward a Deteriorating Situation in Iraq
On March 21st, Dr. Colin H. Kahl, CNAS Senior Fellow, testified before the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. He discussed the security and political environm...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Iran, Hezbollah and the Threat to the Homeland
On March 21st, Dr. Colin H. Kahl, CNAS Senior Fellow, testified before the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee. He discussed the Iranian threat to the United ...
By Colin H. Kahl
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On NATO
My column in the World Politics Review this week is full of depressing observations on NATO: [The] Libya intervention demonstrated that the militaries of non-U.S. NATO nations...
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President's Executive Order Elevates Importance of Natural Resources
Last Tuesday, President Obama announced that the United States, the European Union and Japan filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization against China for its export r...
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Abu Muqawama ... Now in the World Politics Review
I spent all last week in Poland, where I delivered lectures here, here and here. (I want to thank the wonderful folks at both the Polish Institute for International Affairs as...
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How are the Combatant Commanders thinking about Climate Change?
The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee has been holding hearings with the U.S. combatant commanders over the last several weeks. The combatant commanders have been briefing ...
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Much Ado About Foreign Policy
The price of gasoline is a hot-button issue on the campaign trail as Americans across the country face more pain at the pump. Whether or not gasoline prices influence presiden...
By Will Rogers
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Falling In and Out of War
When you’ve been wrong about something as important as war, as I have, you owe yourself some hard thinking about how to avoid repeating the mistake. And if that’s true for a m...
By John A. Nagl
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This Weekend’s News: Gas Prices, Politics and the Global Security Environment
The rise in gasoline prices topped the headlines this weekend. The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that gas prices rose an average of 6 percent in February and a...