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Budget Cuts Part II: Foreign Aid
It seems inevitable that the soft power side of the natural security world will take a hit in the upcoming round of budget cuts. Foreign operations already took sizable hits e...
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Command Post: "Why Can't NATO Whup Libya?"
As NATO's war against Libya nears its sixth-month anniversary, there's one question that keeps churning over and over again in what passes for my mind: why can't the most powe...
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Command Post: "Why Did the U.S. Hand Off the Libyan War to NATO?"
Why did the U.S. military agree to do the "heavy lifting" in the opening days of the war with Libya -- launching long-range bombing strikes from the continental U.S., among ot...
By John A. Nagl
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Budget Cuts & DOD Energy
We’d be remiss (and possibly lose all cred as think-tankers) if we didn’t ponder what the debt crisis and upcoming budget cuts meant for the issues of focus for this blog. To ...
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Command Post: "Why Are We at War With Libya?"
This week on Command Post we're taking a look at what has been going on for more than five months -- yikes, by my watch that's nearly half a year -- in Libya. This was suppose...
By John A. Nagl
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This Weekend's News: Hiroshima & the Nuclear Future
In terms of the news, we all have to agree that this was a pretty awful weekend. Dozens of Americans and their local counterparts were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanis...
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The Israeli Spring and the Tea Party
I rarely if ever comment on Israeli domestic politics, and I would not be so bold to offer comment on something like this had I not been testing this hypothesis out on people ...
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Tel Aviv
I landed in Tel Aviv today and spent tonight checking out the popular protests that have been in the news. It was interesting, after having seen Tahrir Square in February, how...
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Ph.D.s for Dummies
I should have noted, when I first posted this, that Erin/Charlie and I first wrote this after getting a lot of requests of Twitter for advice on Ph.D. programs. After you read...
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Events from Around Town: Biodiversity and Security in Afghanistan
Yesterday at the Rayburn House Office Building, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) hosted a discussion, “Biodiversity Conservation in Afghanistan Advances U.S. Security I...
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Congratulations to...
...Mark Milley, who will be taking over command of the famous 10th Mountain Division. Always nice to see an Ivy Leaguer (Princeton, Columbia) in the general officer corps, if ...
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Counterstrike: The Untold Story Of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
In Counterstrike, a Henry Holt and Company book, former CNAS Writers in Residence, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of The New York Times, tell the story of how a group of analys...
By Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker
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Ramadan Mubarak
Each year, around this time in the (lunar) calendar, Western newspapers are usually filled with stories about the latest exciting Ramadan soap opera everyone is watching. Noth...
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To Close Earth Monitoring Capabilities Gap, First Stop Turning a Blind Eye
Today is part two of our two-day blog launch of our new report, Blinded: The Decline of U.S. Earth Monitoring Capabilities and Its Consequences for National Security. We frame...
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Are Tea Partiers Terrorists?
Uh, no. In his column today, Joe Nocera writes: You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them. These last few months, much of the count...
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New Natural Security Report: “Blinded”
Do you ever find yourself asking: how is environmental change affecting stability in the Horn of Africa? Or wondering just how many billions of dollars in damage sea level ris...
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The Burden on Defense Hawks
As I said yesterday, the deal that passed through the House of Representatives last night stinks. Both parties continued to embrace this fiction arguing discretionary spending...
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Monday Morning Reading
Two things to start your week: 1. Nick Blanford and Bilal Saab have a great article in Foreign Policy about the next war between Israel and Lebanon. I have read the paper from...
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This Weekend’s News: Ironing Out Corruption in Afghanistan’s Mining Sector
Resource challenges continue to play a role in shaping the security environment in Afghanistan. Yesterday, Reuters reported that Afghan warlords could exacerbate violence near...
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Defense and the Budget
Because Republicans refuse to raise taxes (ever) and Democrats refuse to cut entitlements (ever), the big loser in yesterday's deficit reduction deal is defense spending. As E...