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National Security Human Capital Program
CNAS Fourth Annual Conference: Shaping the Agenda- Strategy in the Age of ObamaA distinguished panel moderated by Ambassador Nicholas Burns that featured the State Department’s Director of Policy Planning Anne-Marie Slaughter, The New York Times’ David S...
By Anne-Marie Slaughter & Patrick M. Cronin
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National Security Human Capital Program
CNAS Fourth Annual Conference- Keynote Address by Undersecretary Michele FlournoyUnder Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy delivered the keynote address at the CNAS 4th annual conference "Shaping the Agenda: American National Security in the 2...
By Michèle Flournoy
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CNAS Fourth Annual Conference: Shaping the Agenda- Beyond Afghanistan
Former ISAF commander LTG David Barno, USA (Ret.) moderated a the second panel of the CNAS fourth annual conference. The panel was designed to brief the President on the state...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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National Security Human Capital Program
CNAS Fourth Annual Conference: Shaping the Agenda- Future of the ForceTom Ricks moderates a panel that examines how the U.S. military will evolve in light of current needs and future constraints. The panel included noted experts such as SOCOM co...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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National Security Human Capital Program
CNAS 4th Annual Conference Video: Shaping the Agenda- Introduction and Opening RemarksThe Honorable Dr. Richard Danzig, chairman of the CNAS Board of Directors, and The Honorable Dr. Leo Mackay, CNAS Board of Directors member, delivered opening and introductory...
By Leo S. Mackay & Richard Danzig
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Trinquier vs. Saadi, 1970
My post mourning the death of Marcel Bigeard attracted some lively commentary, so I am going to up the Algeria ante by linking to this fascinating 1970 debate between Roger Tr...
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National Security Human Capital Program
CNAS Fourth Annual Conference: Shaping the Agenda- Bacevich Fellowship AwardCNAS President John Nagl presents Brian Burton as the fourth Bacevich Fellow, a fellowship created in the memory of 1st Lieutenant Andrew Bacevich, son of Boston University Pr...
By John A. Nagl
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This Weekend’s News: Minerals in Afghanistan & Two Approaches to Considering Natural Security
Much has been said of last week’s big minerals-in-Afghanistan news. Most critiques of the timing of the news and of the many difficulties in producing these potential reserves...
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National Security Human Capital Program
Are Private Security Contractors Performing Inherently Governmental Functions?CNAS President Dr. John Nagl testified before the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan on the proper role and oversight of security contractors su...
By John A. Nagl
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Increases in Food Prices Could Affect U.S. National Security Interests Abroad
“Agriculture has experienced a number of severe shocks in recent years with record high oil prices, commodity price spikes, food security fears and resultant trade restriction...
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Afghanistan: Graveyard of Assumptions? (Updated)
These past few weeks have brought a fresh torrent of bad news from Afghanistan: a governor in a key district assassinated, U.S. and allied operations in flux, Afghan leadershi...
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Real American Heroes
The blogs were abuzz yesterday about Gary Faulkner, the California man who has been trying to track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan: The current trip was roughly Mr. Faulkner...
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The President's Address and National Security
So the plan was that I was going to write on any security angles I perceived in President Obama’s address from the Oval Office on the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But the s...
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Journalist FAIL
I was not among those who criticized the article James Risen wrote about the $1 trillion mineral find in Afghanistan. I was content to fret about the conflict trap in which co...
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Pointing Policymakers to Water and Climate Challenges in Central Asia
Last week, the Water Matters @ Columbia blog at the Earth Institute at Columbia University had an interesting post on a project underway at the Columbia Water Center where res...
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Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy Keynote Address
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy delivered the keynote address at the CNAS 4th annual conference "Shaping the Agenda: American National Security in the 2...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Why $1 Trillion in Untapped Mineral Deposits Has Me Depressed
A host of readers sent me this article about Afghanistan's vast natural resource find, but Erin "Charlie" Simpson was the only one whose pessimism about the find matched my ow...
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This Weekend's News: Innovation
I am attending an all-day workshop tomorrow on how economic power, technology and innovation play into national security. The advance prep for the group includes about 125 pag...
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The Left and Afghanistan (Updated)
Michael Cohen has a great essay in The New Republic on the American Left and Afghanistan. Michael's own policy preferences cloud his essay somewhat, but his diagnosis of the p...
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CNASapalooza '10!
I got up at 0315 this morning and am about to head to the Burlington airport in order to be back in Washington, DC in time for the annual CNAS conference, which promises to be...