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This Weekend's News: Someone Should Tell The Donald About DOD's Energy Programs
I have to admit that I don’t tend to watch Sunday morning news shows, but Will shot me an email Sunday morning noting a fabulous CNN interview with potential candidate (or not...
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In Defense of Cluster Munitions
This weekend's news that forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi are firing cluster munitions into built-up areas -- reported by C.J. Chivers and Bryan Denton in both the New York Tim...
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From the Dept. of Better Late Than Never, I Suppose
From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — An inquiry by the Defense Department inspector general into a magazine profile that resulted in the abrupt, forced retirement of Gen. S...
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More National Security Funds You Won't Find in the Dept. of Defense Budget
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: The budget deal, which would finance federal agencies until the end of September, would slash funds for these Department of Education p...
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Quote of the Day: Keepin' It Classy Edition
"These murders neatly sum up the frenzy and depravity within Palestinian society, surely the sickest on earth." -- Daniel Pipes. Yes, three murders surely give us all the data...
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People of Syria: "Kilna Bierluigi Collina!"
From the Los Angeles Times, a yellow card for Bashar al-Asad: Meanwhile, you can rock out in your office to this jammin' Syrian protest song. "Allah! Sy...
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From the Dept. of Easier Said Than Done
From the U.S. and French presidents and the British Prime Minister: ...so long as Qaddafi is in power, NATO must maintain its operations so that civilians remain protected and...
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As Debt Grows, So Does U.S. Exposure to Attack
On Wednesday, President Obama grabbed onto one of the most highly charged issues in American politics: deficit reduction. The president’s speech offered a sensible way forward...
By Travis Sharp
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Satellites You Need to Know: Jason-1, Jason-2 and the Ocean
The Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites were built and run by France and the United States and launched on December 7, 2001 and June 20, 2008 respectively. As the successor satelli...
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The U.S. Response to the Egyptian Revolution(s)
From Anouar Abdel-Malek's Egypt: Military Society: The United States ambassador in Cairo, Jefferson Caffery, enjoyed the most cordial relations with the military group; his su...
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Yet Another EU Subsidy
Here's the way this read in today's Washington Post: “The Americans have the numbers of planes, and the Americans have the right equipment,” said Francois Heisbourg, a militar...
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Lessons from Libya: DOD’s Long-term Energy Strategy Needs International Plan of Action
The U.S. and NATO military mission in Libya offers an important lesson for the Department of Defense as the U.S. military continues its development, testing, evaluation and im...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China’s Current and Emerging Foreign Policy PrioritiesCNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Richard Weitz testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on the current status of Sino-Russian relations....
By Richard Weitz
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Twilight of a Strongman
Over the past decade, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been the quintessential U.S. ally in the Middle East -- a useful, mercurial dictator who rules through a combinat...
By Richard Fontaine
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Why It's Hard For Strongmen To Leave
By any rational standard, it would seem that the fighting and power struggles in the Ivory Coast, Libya, and Yemen should have been over weeks ago. Maybe soon they all will be...
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Harpies?!
I have voiced both my admiration for and disagreements with Andrew Bacevich in the past, and I too chuckled at the things my mother used to tell me about how we would never go...
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Really, Google?
So Google chooses today to celebrate the achievements of a brutal totalitarian regime (that one of its founders fled!) instead of the 150th anniversary of the war that freed t...
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Abu Muqawama Salutes ...
... GEN George Casey. Military historians and other security studies scholars will long debate what GEN Casey did or did not do in Iraq from 2004 until 2007, but that is not t...
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From the Dept. of Wonderful Advice (Pot & Kettle Edition)
From an anonymous Pakistani official: [You] can’t have us as your ally and treat us as your adversary at the same time. It would be a lot easier to trust the ISI if our own i...
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Book Review: Treasures of the Earth by Saleem Ali
Saleem Ali’s 2009 book, Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, arrived at my desk at just the right time last fall. I’ve been working on a new report on...