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This Weekend's News: Energy, Nonproliferation, and More Energy
This week (and those ahead) we’ll be watching news from the NPT conference for discussions on the intersections of energy and nonproliferation. You may be asking, “What does t...
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Traveling and Reading and Travel Reading
I have been tying up some loose ends here at CNAS, putting the final touches on my new Afghanistan paper as well as finishing up a research proposal with LTG (Ret.) Dave Barno...
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Dear Readers
As you know, we've been semi-absent from real blogging for about a week as we wrapped up two reports and prepared for our big event yesterday, Natural Security: Navigating the...
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Natural Security: Navigating the Future Global Environment- Panel Discussion
On April 28, 2010, the Center for a New American Security hosted an event on the effect of cliamte change on our armed services. Following a keynote address by Carol Browner, ...
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Natural Security: Navigating the Future Global Environment- Keynote Address
The effects of climate change and the way we use energy are significant U.S. national security challenges. Addressing them will be increasingly important for our nation's defe...
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Natural Security Event UPDATE
Couldn't make it today? Was the Willard too packed for you? Live in Papua New Guinea? Accidentally slept in? While we wish you could have been here, but we're glad to say you...
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Party at the Willard
Hey all. Not too much of a blog today, as we're a little preoccupied setting up for just about the most epic event to hit D.C. since Lady Gaga was last here in September. The ...
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Lost in Translation: Closing the Gap Between Climate Science and National Security Policy
Yesterday, Dr. Jay Gulledge and I released our near year-long study on the gap between climate science and national security: Lost in Translation: Closing the Gap Between Clim...
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This Weekend's News: Niger, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and South Africa
What do these countries have in common? For the purposes of this blog post, they were all featured in important natural security news over the weekend. Let’s start with Frid...
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Subordinates, How Not to Treat Your
As regular readers know, I read the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times every morning because I secretly find the world of finance to be as fascinating as defense poli...
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Tribal Engagement in Afghanistan: Tactical Lessons Learned
As many of this blog's readers know, I helped facilitate the Tribal Engagement Workshop run by the crew at Small Wars Journal. I was put in charge of collecting lessons learne...
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Courtesy of the NYT - A peek into Pakistan's politics of extremism
Despite what Pakistani politicians might say, extremism isn't all cut and dried in a hugely diverse (and equally stratified) country of 170-odd million people. This article by...
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What do Carol Browner, Rear Admiral Philip Hart Cullom, David Kilcullen, Robert Kaplan and I Have in Common?
We will all be speaking at CNAS's huge - huge - event next Wednesday on natural resources and security! This is public, dear readers, and your chance to be in the room for the...
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On Earth Day, Thinking About Energy Innovation
Earth Day is today. Sting and The Roots are gearing up for their Sunday jamfest on the National Mall with Reverend Jesse Jackson, and the spirit of energy innovation is in the...
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Slideshow of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
We thought we'd help you out in passing the time as you watch the hands creep slowly around the clock, counting down the last few hours between you and that glorious weekend. ...
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Linkage to some Readage
I have been crashing on a new paper on Afghanistan, which just went to the copy editor last night, and have not been blogging (or answering phone calls or emails) as a result....
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Reading Rainbow
We sent our new report off to the printer at OOB yesterday (well, our fearless designer/producer, the intrepid Liz Fontaine did), so I’ve been trying to catch up on my massive...
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DOD and Sector 7G
Of the geeky interests I pass the time with, perhaps none are as odd as my interests in reading old technical documents and outdated architecture. You can imagine the nerd-tas...
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This Weekend's News: China and Latin America and The Onion
We have been pumping hard on some writing deadlines last week and through the weekend, so this is going to be short and sweet. After laboring to wrap up our series on how clim...
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On Drone Strikes
Tom Ricks is the one who usually gets the interns at CNAS to do the spade work on his blog, but I was talking with intern Matt Irvine about an event he attended on drone strik...