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Direct-Action Special Operations, Explained in Brief
While waiting in Logan Airport at o-dark-thirty for a flight back to Washington on Monday, I typed out a brief explanation of the risks and rewards of direct-action special op...
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National Security Human Capital
Remarks from General James Amos, Commandant of the U.S. Marine CorpsOn May 24, 2011, CNAS hosted the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps General James F. Amos for a discussion among senior national security experts about the future of the Corp...
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The Mekong River: Cooperation or Competition in Southeast Asia?
Christine is in Asia this week to conduct research for the South China Sea project the Natural Security team is working on with some of our CNAS colleagues. One place she’ll b...
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Why This Blog Avoids Israel and the Palestinians
Here you have it, gang. This is why most people choose to simply leave any and all discussion of Israel and the Palestinians to the extremists and crazies. Because if I were t...
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This Weekend’s News: No Trespassing
If I had to pick one news story that stood out to me this weekend, it would have to be this piece from the Sunday Washington Post reporting on the growing domestic backlash to...
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Nang vs. Qalang in Eastern Afghanistan & More
I'm off to a wedding this weekend, but here's some stuff to start a few discussions in the comments while I am gone. 1. Doug Ollivant knows more about counterinsurgency than a...
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From the Dept. of Shameless Self-Promotion
For the first and no doubt last time, I'm on the New York Times Best Sellers List (#24) as a contributor to the e-book Beyond Bin Laden: America and the Future of Terror. Man...
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Previewing the President's Middle East Speech (With Live Blogging and Reactions to Follow)
Ahhh, I remember the last time the president addressed the nation. Remember that? The whole "I have ordered Navy SEALs to track down and shoot Osama bin Laden in the head" add...
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Weathering Friendly Competition in the High North
One of the reasons we host the Natural Security blog is to have a venue to quickly share material that’s related to our work. And, of course, the purpose of the Natural Securi...
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In Afghanistan, Meeting Near- and Long-term Energy Sustainability Goals
Later this morning, John Nagl and I are going up on the Hill where John will join a panel of experts to discuss military fuel convoys, energy for our bases in Iraq and Afghani...
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Midweek Reading
1. Jane Mayer's lengthy article in the New Yorker on the National Security Agency should be required reading within defense policy circles because it raises so many good quest...
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On the Hill with John Nagl
Tomorrow, join us on the Hill for a briefing on fuel convoys and DOD energy policy writ large. Our faithful leader Dr. John Nagl will join a panel of experts to discuss the ne...
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ND+2 and Other Stuff
Reading through the Washington Post on the bus this morning, these paragraphs jumped out at me: “This is not classic combat, where you see people advancing and you shoot them,...
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To Secure U.S. Interests in the Arctic, Ratifying UNCLOS is Key
Over the last several years, the United States has elevated the Arctic region as a U.S. national security prerogative. Just days before leaving office in January 2009, Preside...
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Two Views from Lebanon on Yesterday
My friend Sean takes issue with what I wrote yesterday. Sean is obviously partisan on this issue (and I do not use that word "partisan" pejoratively), but read his account of ...
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Israel's Borders: The Day After
So the events of yesterday do not, thankfully, seem to have kicked off a regional war, though continue to knock on wood. As predicted, though, the violence along Israel's bord...
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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 ...