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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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2008 JOE vs. 2010 JOE: Food
Today we’ll round out the Natural Security team’s three part comparison of the recently released 2010 Joint Operating Environment (JOE; PDF) and its predecessor the 2008 JOE (...
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Londonstani who?
This blog long ago established a tradition of announcing the identities of its writers to mass yawns and mumblings of "yeah, so?" Today, it's Londonstani's turn. As many of yo...
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(EXTRA) Spotlight on the Hill: Rare Earth Minerals and 21st Century Industry
Yesterday, I caught a webcast of the House Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight hearing over Rare Earth Minerals and 21st Century I...
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Books, Books, Books
I am crashing on some writing assignments, so I do not have much time to blog. Or to read much, alas. But I figured I would share with you the books that I am currently readin...
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JOE 2008 vs. JOE 2010: Climate Change
The 2010 Joint Operating Environment (JOE; PDF), recently released by Joint Forces Command, offers a slightly more robust assessment on the implications of climate change for ...
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JOE 2008 vs. JOE 2010: Energy
In the great tradition of the natural security bloggers comparing important documents to their previous iterations, we’d like to spend the next few days highlighting how the 2...
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Why We Can't Have Pretty Things
Ugh. This is a sad day for this blog. As many of you know, I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to free speech. I have always supported an open comments policy on the ...