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Sarah Palin for... ... ...Pakistan!
Reading Michelle Cottle's piece in The New Republic about Sarah Palin's odds as a potential leader of the Tea Partiers, I suddenly felt I knew what it must have been like to b...
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The Ficklet Arrives
Allow me to offer a huge congratulations to my friend-turned-boss Nate Fick and his wife Margaret Angell on the birth of Margaret Ella Fick. Named after their grandmothers, "E...
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This Weekend’s News: The Future of Climate Legislation
On Saturday night, national, state, and local governments, major cities, businesses, households and international monuments all turned their lights out for Earth Hour (some gr...
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POTUS in Afghanistan
Great speech, but I'm more curious as to how the talk with Karzai went....
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The other elephant in the Pakistani room
I've been mulling over for days what it is about the recent talk of "strategic dialogue" and the "new relationship" between the US and Pakistan that just doesn't sit right wit...
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Global Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy Imperative in a Digital Age
Google’s announcement that it will stop censoring results from its Chinese search engine is just the latest development on the internet freedom agenda and highlights the incre...
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What is the value of high value targeting?
I do not usually make it to think tank events in DC, but I made the time today to sit in at the start of the Brookings Institute's Defense Challenges and Future Opportunities ...
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Read This Now: Syria: Over a Million People Affected by Drought
In a previous Natural Security News post, which you read with religious fervor no doubt, we included an article from Bloomberg News which brought to light some serious water i...
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Spotlight on the Hill: Confirmation Hearing
We highly recommend this for your Wednesday viewing pleasure. See you tomorrow folks!...
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On the Hill: Senate Considers Sharon Burke for Director of Operational Energy Plans and Programming
Yesterday, Vice President for Natural Security Sharon Burke appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to be considered for the first-ever Director of Operational Ene...
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From The New Security Beat - Tapping In: Secretary Clinton on World Water Day
Special thanks to our friends (and my former colleagues) across the plaza at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) for writing this exce...
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America Needs an Internet Agenda
Google's announcement that it has stopped censoring results from its Chinese search engine has captured global attention, but developments on the Internet freedom front are co...
By Richard Fontaine
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A: Six Questions for Matt Gallagher
I picked up the paper this morning to see that Bing West has written a fantastic review of Matt Gallagher's new book, Kaboom, for the Wall Street Journal. I think you all know...
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The March Sci Am is Full of Natural Security Goodness
Anyone reading this blog knows the importance of understanding science and technology trends to the nation’s security. Most months, Scientific American has a few articles I’d ...
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The Most Depressing Statistic of the Week
Most everyone agrees the Presidential Management Fellowship is one of the federal government's best programs, as it allows smart young Americans fresh out of graduate school a...
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The Battle of Algiers ... and Men's Fashion
Not a joke. Issandr reports. Does this mean the blog should start selling lizard caps?...
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A Mess Indeed: Security in the Middle East
I had lunch with Amos Harel of Ha'aretz a few months ago in Tel Aviv, and he floated the idea of starting a blog on security issues in the Middle East that would reach a large...
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This Weekend’s News: Stewart Udall & Security
If you’ll permit me to diverge a tad into a topic that may not seem totally security-related, the big news for me this weekend was the passing away of Stewart Udall, Secretary...
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Brilliant is Brilliant
Dr. Larry Brilliant, a trained epidemiologist, former director of Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, and now head of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, published a great arti...
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Song of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on a Friday
Issues of Natural Security often seem to liken themselves to the work of Rube Goldberg. The actions of one state can sometimes have devastating knock-on effects down the pipel...