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The Heretical Question of the Day
Here's a question for NATO officials: far be it for me to stick up for the ethics and values of the fighting forces of Moammar Gadhafi, but your description of "using human sh...
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Events From Around Town: A Rare Earth Crisis, or No Rare Earth Crisis? That is the Question.
Yesterday, the American Enterprise Institute hosted a two panel discussion on whether there is “A Rare-Earth Crisis?” The panelists came from diverse backgrounds and were each...
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High-Tech 1, Low-Tech 0
Americans have what the Irish scholar Theo Farrell has called a technology fetish in our strategic culture. As someone who has spent most of my life fighting in and studying l...
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Beware The Void Under Tyranny
With fighting near the end between the armies of two presidential aspirants in Ivory Coast, that country is at the bottom of a descent that began in 1993 with the death of the...
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Financial Hardball: Corralling Terrorists and Proliferators
CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow David Asher delivered a testimony to the Congressional Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade for the U.S. House Committee on F...
By David Asher
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The Challenges of Post-Gadhafi Libya
Late last night, I linked to Mona el-Ghobashy's excellent article in which she identifies just what Egypt's people won -- or rather, won back -- through their uprising: The ge...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Saleem Ali
This week I had the pleasure of doing a 5 Questions interview with great thinker Saleem Ali. If you don’t yet know his work, you will soon. Recently named a Young Global Leade...
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On Terry Jones
The crime was horrific, and the mob outside the jail was angry. They had gathered before and demanded the death of the man inside, but a conservative cleric, who ran a religio...
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Events from Around Town: The Chairman’s Perspective on Natural Security
Given that there is never a shortage of immediate crises monopolizing their time and energy, it is easy for policymakers to give less attention to the threats looming just bey...
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Stan McChrystal at TED
Ignore his messed-up voice: there is a lot of good stuff in here on the challenges of military leadership today:...
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Two and a Half Months Later
Some great Egypt analysis by Mona el-Ghabashy: The genius of the Egyptian revolution is its methodical restoration of the public weal. The uprising restored the meaning of pol...
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How Much Is a Little Girl Learning to Read Worth?
Kathleen Parker had an op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday lamenting the fact that women's rights are not a priority for the United States and its allies in Afghanistan: W...
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Monday Morning Reading (Updated)
1. If you did not get the chance to read Meghan O'Sullivan's op-ed in Sunday's Washington Post, do so this morning. One part nostra culpa, one part advice to the Obama Adminis...
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This Weekend’s News: The New Tempo of Energy Issues in the Media
Energy issues – from nuclear, coal to oil – were prominent in the news this weekend. Japanese officials continued to struggle with the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclea...
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Messages From a Libyan Intervention
Pundits around the world have been debating the meaning of the US intervention in Libya since the first bombs began falling last week. Does Libya mark a new direction in US f...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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From the Dept. of Silly Things Written About My Employer
Look, my employer does not take institutional positions, but if you are going to ascribe them to us, please do your homework: 1. U.S. News: "Patrick Cronin, a senior director ...
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The Greatest U.S. Army Jokes Ever
Hey, did you see the U.S. Army's homepage today? They announced the Stetson hat will be the new official U.S. Army headgear. Hilarious April Fools joke, right? Because we can ...
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Random Bits
Again, these are a busy few days for me, so posting will be light. But I want to sound off on three things, quickly. 1. I was not too angry about the fact that the United Stat...
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Surgical Financial Strikes Can Oust Gaddafi
Over the past week the Libyan no-fly zone has prevented Muammer Gaddafi from killing innocent civilians, but not forced him from power. None of the long-term options for Libya...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Reactions on America’s New Energy "Blueprint"
Today I was moderating a panel and facilitating a working session on energy, climate change & security, so I haven’t yet seen or heard a single reaction to the president’s...