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Tom Ricks, China’s Minerals Diplomacy and Us
Our fabulous colleague Tom was kind enough to link to the Natural Security Blog from his non-CNAS home at Best Defense. Prompting him was Business Week's article on China's co...
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Murder-Boarding Our New Energy Report: Day 3
In today’s post, I’m going to highlight a tension in the critiques that we as authors had to deal with. Not surprisingly, it was in regard to how to treat climate change in th...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A: Michael Horowitz
Regular readers of this blog know how much I enjoyed my friend Mike Horowitz's ground-breaking new book on military innovation and diffusion, a field of inquiry in which I hav...
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From the Dept. of Intellectual Dishonesty
Riding the bus en route to work this morning, I read Elliott Abrams' op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the aborted peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The gist ...
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Murder-Boarding Our New Energy Report: Day 2
We’ll begin today with a critique of our new energy report that a guest raised to me at the dinner discussion on DOD energy that CNAS held on Monday night. In short, this pers...
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Murder-Boarding Our New Energy Report: Day 1
As promised yesterday, today and through the week I’m going to highlight some of the comments and critiques we received from CNAS and non-CNAS reviewers of our new report, “Fu...
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On Woodward's Book: A (Very Minor) Clarification
I arrived back in the office this morning to discover a copy of Bob Woodward's new book on my desk with the rest of the mail. The mail also included two other books I ordered ...
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This Weekend’s News: We Prepared for the Release of Our New DOD Fuels Report
For the post today we’re taking a brief hiatus from assessing the weekend’s natural security news for you. Will collected some news stories for you and has posted them as we d...
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On Calling Balls and Strikes
"Riddle me this," a particularly careful student of civil-military relations wrote to me this morning: How many of the people who think we have a serious civil-military probl...
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In Kyrgyzstan, a New Challenge to Getting Fuel into Afghanistan
Yesterday, coverage from The Washington Post and The New York Times on the soon-to-be-released Obama’ s Wars, Bob Woodward’s latest opus, generated a media storm by reporting ...
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An Indispensable Force: Investing in America's National Guard and Reserves – and Natural Security
On Monday, CNAS Commander-in-Chief John Nagl and my officemate Travis “Charlie” Sharp released their thought-provoking report on the state of the National Guard and Reserves, ...
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U.S. Policy in Afghanistan | Indiana Council on World Affairs
Andrew Exum talked about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and provided an assessment of the security, diplomatic, and military situation in the country. He also talked about the...
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Read This Now: SciAm Edition
I almost forgot to flag this for you all. You need to check out the current (soon to be last month's) edition of Scientific American for this: "How Much Is Left? The Limits of...
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For China and Japan, a Row over Resources?
Tensions are on the rise in the East China Sea, with recent events embroiling states with long-standing mistrust: China and Japan. Recall that back in July we reported here on...
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National Security Human Capital
Exclusive Interview with John Nagl on Investing in America's National Guard and ReservesIn this exclusive interview, CNAS President Dr. John Nagl, co-author of the new CNAS report An Indispensable Force: Investing in America's National Guard and Reserves, talks a...
By John A. Nagl
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This Weekend’s News: Mind the Gap
Here’s a story near and dear to our hearts at the Natural Security blog: an important report from The Washington Post this weekend shed light on the decline in U.S. Earth-moni...
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The Next War: Hizballah vs. Israel
Jeff White, a 35-year veteran of the Defense Intelligence Agency and one of the smartest guys I know, has a disturbing new report on what the next war between Israel and Hizba...
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Join Us on The Hill Next Wednesday!
Hey Readers, If you work within the natural resources and national security/foreign policy world, you may want to join us on the Hill next Wednesday at noon for a lunch discus...
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CRS: Pakistan’s Resource Issues = Concerning
A third pat on Congressional Research Service’s back this week, now for its August 3rd “Security and the Environment in Pakistan.” For full disclosure, I also have a pending a...
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CRS Reports on Geoengineering
Continuing its streak of natural security work this summer, on August 16th the Congressional Research Service issued a report titled “Geoengineering: Governance and Technology...