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For Governments, How to Balance Economic and Environmental Interests?
How soon should an industry (or even a single factory) be allowed to return to normal operations after a toxic spill? It's a question of balancing economic and environmental i...
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The Trust Deficit: The Impact of Local Perceptions on Policy in Afghanistan
I served as a respondent this afternoon, along with Jack Fairweather and Michael Semple, to an excellent new report written by my friends Erica Gaston and Jonathan Horowitz on...
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On Geoengineering, Learning from the Greeks
“Everything is unprecedented if you don’t read history,” said James Rodger Fleming, author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, at an event...
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C. J. Chivers 1, Abu Muqawama 0
I have a review of the new C. J. Chivers book, The Gun, in the newest Wilson Quarterly. In brief, I really enjoyed the book and was glad to get the opportunity to review it si...
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Militants Increase Attacks Against NATO Fuel Convoys in Pakistan
Our daily news round up over the past week may seem a bit repetitive. Again this morning, The Washington Post reported an attack on another NATO supply convoy carrying fuel f...
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Own goals in Pakistan on afpak
A few days old, but my most recent article for the guys at afpak is up on their website. "The international community uses force in Pakistan and Afghanistan as if there is no...
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CNAS Hosts Discussion on Drug Cartels and U.S. National Security
On September 30, 2010, CNAS hosted an event to launch Crime Wars: Gangs, Cartels, and U.S. National Security, a groundbreaking CNAS report that surveys organized crime through...
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Where Did Alex Go? A Natural Security Blog Alum Update
You may often wonder to yourself, what happens to our natural security bloggers when they leave CNAS? In particular, what happened to Alex Stark? As it turns out, she's in Chi...
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Rare Earths and U.S. National Security: What You Need to Know
If you have been following the news the last couple of weeks, you probably watched the showdown unfold between China and Japan in the East China Sea. On September 7, the Japan...
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National Security Human Capital Program
CNAS Hosts Discussion on the National Guard and ReservesCNAS launched its new report on continuing challenges facing the National Guard and Reserves at an event featuring CNAS President Dr. John Nagl, former Chairman of the Commiss...
By John A. Nagl
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This Weekend’s News: Baghdad is Abuzz without Electricity
As I was perusing the news this weekend, this headline from the Sunday Washington Post caught my eye: “In Iraq, the Frustrating Sound of Generators.” Since there has been – un...
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Asia’s Security and the Contested Global Commons
CNAS Fellow Abraham Denmark writes a chapter in the report Asia's Rising Power on Asia's Security and the Contested Global Commons. Download a free sample of his chapter here....
By Abraham M. Denmark
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On Woodward's Book: Heroes and Villains?
I had a really busy week at work and was only able to finish Bob Woodward's new book this morning. I must say, I really enjoyed it. It is almost impossible to dispassionately ...
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Counterinsurgency and the Future of NATO
In this first working paper produced by The Transatlantic Paper Series, CNAS President John Nagl and Non-Resident Senior Fellow Richard Weitz evaluate how NATO can best implem...
By John A. Nagl & Richard Weitz
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A: Michael Horowitz
Regular readers of this blog know how much I enjoyed my friend Mike Horowitz's ground-breaking new book on military innovation and diffusion, a field of inquiry in which I hav...
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Tom Ricks, China’s Minerals Diplomacy and Us
Our fabulous colleague Tom was kind enough to link to the Natural Security Blog from his non-CNAS home at Best Defense. Prompting him was Business Week's article on China's co...
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Murder-Boarding Our New Energy Report: Day 3
In today’s post, I’m going to highlight a tension in the critiques that we as authors had to deal with. Not surprisingly, it was in regard to how to treat climate change in th...
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From the Dept. of Intellectual Dishonesty
Riding the bus en route to work this morning, I read Elliott Abrams' op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the aborted peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The gist ...
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Murder-Boarding Our New Energy Report: Day 2
We’ll begin today with a critique of our new energy report that a guest raised to me at the dinner discussion on DOD energy that CNAS held on Monday night. In short, this pers...
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Murder-Boarding Our New Energy Report: Day 1
As promised yesterday, today and through the week I’m going to highlight some of the comments and critiques we received from CNAS and non-CNAS reviewers of our new report, “Fu...