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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...
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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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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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(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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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 ...
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Israel to CENTCOM?
I'm just back from a great conference at Wilton Park in the UK on how we can assess the effect of aid and development on counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. I'll have much more ...
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This Weekend’s News: Furthering Our Understanding of Climate Changes
This weekend’s natural security news seems to have been lighter than it has been in recent weeks. However, one common report appearing in The New York Times and Scientific Ame...
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Setting Energy and Climate Goals: Air Force Academy
As another leg of my trip to NREL and NORTHCOM a few weeks ago with colleagues Commander Herb Carmen and Will Rogers, we swung by the Air Force Academy to check out their ener...
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The Fully Burdened Cost of Water
A recent article in the February 20, 2010 National Journal, “The Bottled-Water Problem,” (subscription required) explores the logistical challenges that the U.S. military and ...
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Political Economy of the Middle East
So a typical cycle for this blogger is to get annoyed by some criticism, write something snarky and mischievous, and then get all Presbyterian about it and feel guilty for hav...
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(Field) Manual Shift: The Small Wars Manual, WWII and Dr. Mansoor
The Small Wars Manual (SWM), released in 1940 by the United States Marine Corps, in response to the growing engagements in guerilla style wars in Central America and Caribbean...