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This Weekend’s News: The Nuclear Industry’s State of Play
Since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that crippled several nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station, policymakers and nuclear watchdog groups...
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Just Another Sunday in the Levant
By now, you have read the news that protesters who attempted to march into Israel and Israeli-controlled territory* (here I am referring to the Golan Heights, which are disput...
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Weekend Reading
1. I remember when Andrew Lytle died. I was a senior in high school in Chattanooga, and though I had not yet read anything he had written, my mother patiently explained the So...
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Happy Minerals Report Release Day!
Today we officially release CNAS's long-in-the-works minerals report. If you saw our website or my guest-authored piece in Danger Room yesterday, you may have seen that it is ...
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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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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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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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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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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...