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The United States & China: Escalating Tensions at the UNFCCC or a New Geo-Political Reality?
Making a guest appearance on the blog today is the talented Alex Stark, CNAS natural security veteran who now spends her free time traveling to China (last month) and Cancun (...
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Defense Policy and the New Congress: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss (Updated)
I wrote earlier that this blog is not the go-to place for analysis on what last night's election results mean for defense policy, but it then occurred to me that my office is ...
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In Praise of Ike Skelton
It was pretty obvious that the Republicans were going to win the House of Representatives and that Buck McKeon would be the new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee....
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Big Idea of the Day: Sectarianism Alive and Well in Lebanon Edition
From "The Role of Sectarianism in the Allocation of Public Expenditure in Postwar Lebanon" by Nisreen Salti and Jad Chaaban: A preliminary analysis of the poverty, education, ...
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Picture of the Day: Love is a Battlefield
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Big Idea of the Day
This relatively easy-to-understand paragraph is from that article I mentioned below: Civil wars are military contests where each side's military capacity shapes the type of mi...
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Two Quick Reading Recommendations
Two recent articles made me think. The first, which is the most accesible (in more ways than one), is Richard Betts' review essay on Huntington, Fukuyama and Mearsheimer in th...
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What the 2010 USMC "Commandant's Planning Guidance" Says about Resources
I'm going through my backlogged email from my week out of the office. While I was gone, my officemate, CNAS's USMC Senior Military Fellow LtCol Paul Deutsch was kind enough to...
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Early Thoughts on Yemen
This weekend's news has already generated a lot of comment, and as I am not a bona fide Yemen expert, the best I can do in terms of analysis is point toward Greg Johnsen's pie...
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This Weekend's News: Misc. Natural Security Fun
Late last week, Japan concluded a successful international conference on the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, pledging $2 billion for conservation efforts and pulling th...
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So Apparently I'm Not the Only One Who Needs Bourbon to Get Through the APSR
This is really, really, really funny. (h/t Sullivan)...
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Ohi!
The Greeks have not gotten much good press recently, but today, we should give them some: Greeks around the world are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the emphatic Ohi! (...
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U.S. Military Intervention in Central Africa: On Further Review, Still a Really Bad Idea
My friend MK over at the Ink Spots blog has posted a tough criticism of my argument that Kenneth Roth's idea for the United States to lead a U.S. military intervention into Ce...
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Earthquakes Not Necessarily a Deal Breaker for Nuclear
Nuclear critics are likely to take the most recent earthquake in Indonesia as a new opportunity to protest the construction of a nuclear power plant on Java. Indonesia has a ...
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The Greatest Thing on the Internet Today
This is amazing. Have a great Labor Day weekend, comrades. (h/t @JamesSanna)...
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A Note to Readers
I get several hundred emails a day and often do not have the time to respond to them all. I am by no means some kind of big deal, but I also don't have a personal assistant. S...
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Four Great Books I Have Lost: A Lament
I have searched and searched my libraries both here and in Tennessee for the following books, all four of which I read in 2004 and 2005 and thus probably lost in moves from Be...
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An Open Letter to the Washington Post
Dear Sir or Madam: As one of your readers, what in the world am I supposed to make of an article in yesterday's newspaper claiming that the United States and its allies are ki...
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Natural Insecurity in the Hermit Kingdom
Just beyond the tranquil picturesque landscape of the demilitarized zone on the Korean Peninsula lies modern day North Korea, a bizarre and mysterious world unto itself. The c...
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SHOCKING VIDEO: An Abu Muqawama Exclusive
By now you've all read about the ICBM Charlie Foxtrot that left 50 Minuteman III nuclear missiles on the fritz. We here at Abu Muqawama have been given exclusive access to the...