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This Weekend’s News: Noteworthy News from Our #2 Supplier of Oil Imports
You couldn’t swing a dead polar bear this weekend without hitting hundreds of reports and commentaries about Copenhagen or Climategate, so I’m going to focus my attention else...
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Invictus
A movie by that name opens today. But Spec. Brandon Marrocco, I believe, truly embodies the word. This guy is incredible....
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Disco at the Pentagon
Yesterday, President Obama nominated me to serve as the Director of Operational Energy Plans and Programs at the Department of Defense. If the Senate votes to confirm me in th...
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Photo of the Week: Because No One Should Have to Read Too Much on Fridays
Following on our theme of blogging about last weekend’s visit to the USS Harry S. Truman, we offer a shaky and hopefully entertaining photo of two natural security bloggers – ...
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Reading Old Magazines: “Modified Fighter Jet Lends More Fuel to the Fight”
Earlier this week my colleague Christine Parthemore and I wrote about CNAS’s recent excursion aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, a Nimitz-class carrier whose tactical air wing co...
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The Strait and Narrow: Top Five Energy Chokepoints
For today’s Top 5 list I decided to examine the most prominent energy chokepoints around the world. Since shocks to oil transit systems in any one region can affect prices wor...
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McChrystal/Eikenberry Testimony Today
Here you go... Final/Not for distribution Statement of Ambassador Karl Eikenberry Before the House Armed Services...
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Travel Blog: CNASers Aboard the USS Harry S. Truman
This weekend, thanks to our Senior Military Fellow Commander Herb Carmen, we were privileged to visit the Nimitz-class USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier that houses more th...
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Away Message
We are not going to have access to the internet for the next few days, so will not have a full post up on Monday. The big natural security news through the weekend has of cour...
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Preventing Terrorism at Home - Enquiring into Causes
The UK's Department of Communities and Local Government is conducting an enquiry into the UK's government's Prevent strategy, one strand of the government's overall plan to ta...
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Pakistan update
Big time attack in Rawalpindi today, where Londonstani went for eid prayers a couple of days ago. The BBC is reporting 32 dead in an attack on a mosque. People are calling rel...
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Abu Muqawama Sells Out! (UPDATED)
Oh, for goodness sake. Nathan Hodge starts by asking some fair questions about where defense and foreign policy think tanks get their money. (And has a kind word or two for th...
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Events from Around Town: A Double Feature
Michael McCarthy reports from the New America Foundation event on Minding the Gap: Where Will President Obama's Energy and Climate Policies Take Us in Four to Eight Years? Yes...
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Bucking Conventional Wisdom: The Top Five Energy-Poor Middle Eastern Countries
The Middle East is rightly seen as a center of global energy supplies and production, hosting several of the world’s top petroleum and natural gas giants. But, as it turns out...
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Reading Old Magazines: “Enviro-intelligence: The CIA Goes Green”
This week’s Reading Old Magazines returns to another topic I have been researching lately in conjunction with our Lost in Translation project and sparked by the recent news th...
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Irregular Warfare Reading List
I like to think our counterinsurgency reading list is pretty good, too, but this one, from the U.S. Army War College, is really comprehensive. (Thanks, Ross.) IWnov09...
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This Weekend’s News: India, beyond the Party Crashers
This Thanksgiving weekend, with newspapers light on news and heavy on ads, the biggest story was clearly the crashing of the White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister...
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Obama’s Opportunity with India
In hosting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week for the first state visit of his administration, President Barack Obama can claim to be taking India seriously as a p...
By Richard Fontaine
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Reading Old Magazines: “Natural Gas Imports by South Asia: Pipelines or Pipe Dreams?”
Energy security is often grounded in political concerns here in the United States, and it is of course unsurprising that other countries factor their domestic politics into ec...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Kelly Sims Gallagher
Recently, I had the chance to correspond with Kelly Sims Gallagher, an Associated Professor of Energy and Environment Policy at the Fletcher School, where she covers energy po...