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Two Great Pieces of Long-Form Journalism
1. Jeremy Scahill in the Nation. 2. Elizabeth Rubin in Tablet. Have a great weekend digesting those two challenging pieces....
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Counterstrike: The Untold Story Of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda - Video
In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "war on terror" that sought to defeat Al Qaeda through brute force. It soon became clear, however, that this...
By Eric Schmitt
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Command Post: "Did the U.S. Overreact to 9/11?"
It's a fair question as the 10th anniversary of the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon looms. After all, it was the most shocking macro-event most Ame...
By Eric Schmitt
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Read This Now: Crunch Time for U.S. Science
Our friend and colleague Dr. Jay Gulledge has a terrific piece in the latest issue of Nature arguing that researchers must make a stronger case for funding climate science res...
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The Future…It’s Not.
I have to admit that I was disappointed with this Foreign Policy “The Future is Now” report predicting a global oil production shift back to the Americas. The author, Amy Myer...
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Command Post: "How Has U.S. National Security Changed Since 9/11?"
It's hard to believe -- at least for some of us -- that it has been a decade since 9/11. Before then, covering the military meant going out to the National Training Center at ...
By Eric Schmitt
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This Weekend’s News: Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
On Monday, The New York Times reported that Iran began successfully operating its first nuclear power plant. “The $1 billion, 1,000-megawatt Bushehr plant will be formally ina...
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The 9/11 Decade
In the CNAS Commentary The 9/11 Decade, Senior Fellow Robert Kaplan states that when 9/11 occurred, the world had already become multiploar in a diplomatic and economic sense....
By Robert D. Kaplan
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On Allies
I have been away from the blog this week because I am in Finland at the invitation of our embassy here and will next be traveling to Norway. Over the past few days, I have bee...
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Recapping the National Clean Energy Summit 4.0
This week, leaders from industry, government and research institutions gathered in Las Vegas for the National Clean Energy Summit. The day-long event featured addresses from V...
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Surprise! Exxon Mobile Strikes Deal with Russia for Arctic Energy
Yesterday’s announced deal between Exxon Mobile and Russia’s state-owned Rosneft came as a bit of a surprise. My initial reaction, to borrow Homer Simpson’s catchphrase: “D’oh...
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Read This Now: Military and Security Developments Involving China
Last week, the Department of Defense (DOD) released its annual report to Congress on Chinese military and security developments. While the report largely mimics last year’s su...
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This Weekend’s News: In Libya, A Chinese Foreign Policy Dilemma
Many are still digging out from the aftermath of Hurricane Irene today. For those east coasters stranded inside this weekend and without power as Irene rolled through, you may...
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Libya, Obama and the Triumph of Realism
Realism is dead, clamour the cheerleaders of the Arab spring. The collapse of dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, and now Libya heralds a new birth of freedom that supposedly con...
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Command Post: "Who Are the Real Cyber-Warriors?"
National-security debates used to be a lot easier when it took a nation-state to raise an army and build an arsenal. To hear some cyber-defense experts tell it, today a cyberw...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A: Counterstrike!
I spent part of my vacation reading the new book by Thom Shanker and Eric Schmitt, Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda. Thom and Eric...
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Count GI Bill Benefits As Federal Financial Aid
After a decade of war, a generation of veterans is preparing not only to return home, but to school. Yet they face being cheated out of an educational opportunity that they ri...
By Sarah Reinheimer
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Command Post: "Cyber War: Fact or Fiction?"
Defending against the invisible menace of online cyber-attacks has become one of the Pentagon's biggest growth areas. But should it be? Kristin Lord of the Center for a New Am...
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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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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 o...