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Yemen and Natural Gas: What’s Up With That?
Last week I had the privilege of speaking with a group of a few dozen government officials from Yemen. They were all concerned about water, the lack of biodiversity in their c...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Gregory Johnsen (Revisited)
In honor of Yemen Week here on the blog we wanted to to bring to your attention an oldie but a goodie, a super interesting 5 Questions with Someone Interesting over water issu...
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The South Moves to Secede from the Union. . . in Yemen
Yesterday an article in the LA Times caught my eye. As if Yemen didn’t have enough to worry about, it now has a good old fashion revolution in the south, with separatists decl...
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Civil-Military Relations in the Obama Era
This article by Jonathan Alter in Newsweek on how Obama tamed his generals is great and worth reading -- although not necessarily for the reasons the author intended. I'm goin...
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The Loneliest Number
A few weeks back, upon receiving my ever-treasured Wired in the mail, I read and fell hopelessly in love with a piece by Clive Thompson, “Why We Should Learn the Language of D...
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Managing North Korea: The Need for Coordination between Washington and Seoul
As the hundreds of American and South Korean officials involved in formulating and executing policy towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea over the years will attes...
By Richard Fontaine
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Revisiting Waziristan
Yesterday I swung by CSIS for their fifth installment of their Game Changers and Visionaries series. The topic at hand yesterday had been innovations in the energy sector and ...
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Why Does the State Department Struggle to Protect its Budget? Blame Organizational Culture
I received a note last week from a former USAID administrator lamenting the fact that while the U.S. Department of Defense annual budget remains comfortably north of $700 bill...
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In Afghanistan, Focusing on Climate Change and the Civilian Surge
On day one of his visit to Washington, Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who reaffirmed America’s commitment to Afghanistan long a...
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Pakistan & China, BFF
In honor of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s visit to Washington this week, we will be focusing the blog on Afghanistan and Pakistan (given the consensus that the later is crit...
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This Weekend’s News: Continuing Saga of the Oil Spill
The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is still the dominant and more important story on energy nearly every day. This weekend, coverage of the massive oil spill included some use...
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Two from the Post
Woke up this morning in Riyadh to spot two articles in today's Washington Post that made me smile. The first was an op-ed from former Abu Muqawama contributor Erin "Charlie" S...
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Times Square and the evolving nature of radicalisation
I've avoided posting on the recent attempt to bomb Times Square as I'm not in Pakistan at the moment, and couldn't honestly say from London what Pakistanis think about it. How...
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Triage : Blue Steel :: Leverage : Magnum
A report in the Associated Press today mentioned a new paper that I have been working on for the past few months: The war effort in Afghanistan suffers from a lack of attentio...
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In Bangladesh, Challenges and Opportunities
“If you had to pick a place that would be the mother of all humanitarian emergencies over the next 20 years, the Navy and Air Force might focus on Bangladesh,” said Robert Kap...
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Events from Around Town: China's Appetite for Raw Materials and Energy
Today we'll be giving you a double dose of blog-ness, with postings from Will and myself. Today, I'll recap an event I attended on Wednesday across the street at the Wilson C...
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Natural Security: Navigating the Future Global Environment- Transcript
On April 28, 2010, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted the event Natural Security: Navigating the Future Global Environment featuring Carol Browner, the Assis...
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Are You Following Us?
If you aren't already following us on Facebook and Twitter, you're so missing out! Natural Security Facebook Page @clparthemore @wmrogers @herbcarmen @OSaracenU Thank you, dea...
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Top 5: U.S.-Asian Technical Assistance Programs
In celebration of the Natural Security Blog’s unofficial Asia Week, we thought it might be interesting to dig through some of the ongoing cooperative programs between the U.S....
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(Hardcore) Quote (from a Veteran) of the Day
Who knew Michael Caine was a veteran of the Korean War? I sure didn't. I thought this quote of his from an article in the New Yorker, though, was pretty awesome: “When I was n...