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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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India's Arab Spring Opportunity
The fall of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi stands as the latest, most dramatic episode in the explosive changes roiling today’s Middle East. As Libyans—and their counterparts in Egyp...
By Richard Fontaine
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Command Post: "How Vulnerable Is Our Infrastructure to Cyber Attack?"
The folks who get paid to stay up at night worrying about cyber-security are always telling us that our basic infrastructure -- the online computer networks that run our water...
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Libya, 24 August 2011
I have been on vacation for the past week, largely away from both the internet and television in rural Tennessee, and I missed most coverage of the rebel advance into Tripoli....
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In the Arctic, Difficult Choices Loom about U.S. Military Capability
Military activity is on the rise in the Arctic. The Canadian military, for example, is bolstering its presence in the region, in part to offset Russian influence and to prepar...
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Patrick Cronin on Voice of America's The Platform
CNAS Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program Patrick Cronin talks to VOA’s The Platform about potential cooperation between China and Pakistan and how this affect...
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Command Post: "How Tough Is It to Tell Who Launched a Cyber Attack?"
The word attribution always crops up when experts debate the challenges of deterring a cyber attack. It simply means determining just who is responsible for nefarious acts onl...
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In Northeast Asia, Energy May Alter the Geopolitical Balance
A potential energy deal between Russia and North Korea may alter the geopolitical balance in Northeast Asia. Over the weekend, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il visited the Russ...
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Command Post: "Is a Cyber Pearl Harbor on the Horizon?"
This week on Command Post, John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and I discuss the potential horror -- and the potential hype -- of cyber war with James Lewis of...