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In Asia, an Opportunity to Strengthen Long-term Relationships though Natural Resource Cooperation
China is experiencing one of the worst droughts in 60 years experts say, in part a consequence of the Asian giant’s insatiable appetite for energy and water resources that are...
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Brigitte Gabriel, the SLA, and Khiam
Here's a question for the editors of the New York Times: when you guys ran your profile of Brigitte Gabriel today, did your reporter not know of or just choose not to report o...
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The Pale Blue Dot
Many thanks to the reader of this blog who pointed me toward this moving video of the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia set to Carl Sagan reading from "Earth: The Pale Blue Dot."...
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Wael Ghonim and Wadah Khanfar at TED2011
I'm still waiting to see and hear Stan McChrystal's talk....
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Quote of the Day II
From a Libyan shaking his head at the behavior of the British government: This is no way to conduct yourself during an uprising....
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Quote of the Day: Op-Ed Edition (and an excuse to remind Tom Friedman why we're still in Afghanistan)
Here's Nick Kristof in Saturday's Times: It’s a sophisticated argument that a column can’t do justice to... I'm not the only one who read that phrase and smiled. What a relie...
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Energy Prices and the Defense Budget
As rising fuel costs put a strain on the defense budget, CNAS Fellow Christine Parthemore discusses the Pentagon's options in an interview with Defense News TV....
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This Weekend's News: We All Fall Short from Glory
The biggest natural security news of the weekend was actually hardly mentioned in the weekend’s papers. On Friday morning, NASA’s new satellite to collect climate data, Glory,...
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The New APFT
Stars and Stripes reporter Jeff Schogol takes on the new Army Physical Fitness Test....
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8-1
I spent some time yesterday afternoon thinking about the Westboro Baptist Church and yesterday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. Obviously, I am disgusted by the rhetoric ...
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In Run Up to World Water Day, Senate Report Warns of Looming Water Crisis in Central Asia
March 22nd will mark the eighteenth World Water Day, an annual UN-sponsored day to recognize the importance of water, including its increasing scarcity and competition for it....
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Dana Milbank, We Forgive You For "Mouthpiece Theater"
He really takes the House defense appropriations subcommittee -- and especially its chairman -- to task: In his opening statement, Gates fervently appealed for funds requeste...
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On Nine Afghan Boys
I spent a bit of time this afternoon explaining to some colleagues the effect the Qana massacre of 1996 had on Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon and then came ba...
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What We Are Reading (And What We Are NOT Reading)
1. Yesterday, it was Gen. Mattis. Today's big cup o' ice water comes from Sec. Gates: In his most pointed comment, Mr. Gates said that “we also have to think about, frankly, t...
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Fun Fact of the Day
Dave Kilcullen just pointed out to me that the entire budget for USIP is equal to the amount of money it takes to deploy one platoon of infantry to Afghanistan for a year....
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India’s New Budget: Fighting Food Insecurity
As the attention of the world turns towards the East over the coming decades, India will become an increasingly important power. As a recent CNAS report began, “The emergence ...
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Should the U.S. Move Against Qaddafi? A Logical, But Difficult, Step
The administration is right to ratchet up the pressure on Colonel Qaddafi and his brutal regime. Talking of establishing a no-flight zone, repositioning American military asse...
By Richard Fontaine
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Oman's Renaissance Man
The democratic upheaval across the Arab world has now become so profound and overwhelming -- so unstoppable -- as to engulf arguably the least oppressive and most competent au...
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And today's prize for Biggest Cup of Ice Water goes to ...
... Jim Mattis of CENTCOM! AFP - Enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya would first require bombing the north African nation's air defense systems, top US commander General James...
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Today's Most Important Story That You Will Likely Not Read
An article by Leila Fadel on the Egyptian police ran in today's Washington Post. I probably would not have read it had I not been flipping through the actual paper edition, an...