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Quote of the Day: How to Be a Better Analyst
It comes from noted defense policy specialist Al Franken*: While the briefings provided me with a helpful update on what was happening on the ground, I knew that I would have ...
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If a U.S. president could speak honestly about Libya...
Listening to U.S. journalists demand to know what the Obama Administration is doing about Libya is growing tiresome. So much so that it was refreshing to hear the NATO secret...
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Stay classy, Michael Hastings!
One of the ugliest sentences you will ever read in a piece of journalism: Caldwell seemed more eager to advance his own career than to defeat the Taliban. That is not a quot...
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Egypt Trip Report: Part IV
Before 11 February, before the fall of Mubarak, before the crowds in central Cairo torched the headquarters of the ruling party (watching it burn for for three glorious days a...
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Final Frontier Week Part 3: Will the Sun Take Down the Electric Grid?
Over the past few days, we’ve been highlighting how space technology can be used to improve our understanding of climate and environmental change as we examine the security an...
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America Primed
The past century has seen a multi-polar world through the end of World War II, a bipolar world through the end of the Cold War and a dissipating unipolar world since. Economic...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Doing More Without More: Obtaining Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending - TranscriptToday’s constrained economic environment demands that taxpayer dollars be prioritized to meet the demands of the 21st century. On February 22, a week after the defense budget...
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Jean Lartéguy est mort
I arrived back in the States to some sad news: Jean Lartéguy, author of The Centurions and The Praetorians, has passed away in Paris, and the publisher of his books in America...
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Final Frontier Week Day 2 Bonus Feature: CubeSats Riding High with Glory
The launch of NASA’s new earth observation satellite, Glory, was delayed today, but rest assured that it will not have to make the long trip into space alone when it does take...
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Final Frontier Week Part 2: The President’s Budget and Earth Observation Satellites
As Christine discussed in three posts last week, the president’s budget showed much hope for those of us interested in natural security issues. One category particularly near ...
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Doing More Without More: Obtaining Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending - C-SPAN Coverage
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On Libya
I am about to depart Cairo after five great days here spent conducting interviews and gathering "atmospherics" in post-Mubarak Egypt. I want to thank my employers for allowing...
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It’s Final Frontier Week!
Last week we witnessed a new high in anti-climate change posturing in Washington (or should I say pro-climate change?), to include extreme measures like de-funding the positio...
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Doing More Without More: Obtaining Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending
On February 22, a week after the defense budget was submitted to Congress, Dr. Ashton B. Carter delivered a keynote address on the Pentagon’s Defense Efficiency Initiative, wh...
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The ‘Long War’ May Be Getting Shorter
It is hard to tell when momentum shifts in a counterinsurgency campaign, but there is increasing evidence that Afghanistan is moving in a more positive direction than many ana...
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Egypt Trip Report: Part III
The third part of my trip report to Egypt concerns a few of the worries I expressed in the first part of my trip report. Specifically, I worry about how the Egyptian Military ...
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Happy President's Day
Happy President's Day from the Natural Security Blog. We will be taking today off, but we look forward to returning to our regular Natural Security business tomorrow! Photo: M...
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Egypt Trip Report: Part II
I am rather busy today, traveling around looking for answers to some of the security-related questions I posed in Part I of my Egypt Trip Report (see below). I want to briefly...
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Egypt Trip Report: Part I
If you've been following my Twitter feed, you'll know I arrived in Cairo a few days ago and will be here for another few days doing some research. I tacked this short visit on...
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Go Inside The $56 Billion ‘Black’ Budget
The Pentagon dropped its $533 billion budget this week. Some line items get a thorough public debate — like stealth jet engines and soldier health care. Others have opaque nam...
By Travis Sharp