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Book Review: The End of Food
One of the great things about working in a new program area like Natural Security is that we’re constantly reassessing how to best address our research area. Recently, the imp...
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This Weekend's News: A Winter Wonderland...and Copenhagen
The big story for many of us this weekend was, of course, the monster blizzard that slammed the East Coast on Friday night, continuing through Sunday, stranding thousands duri...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Sufis - Pakistan's Saviours?
On December 4, four militants stormed a mosque used extensively by Pakistan Army personnel and killed 35 people who had gathered for Friday prayers. Among the victims were 17 ...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The U.S.-ROK Alliance in the 21st CenturyThe U.S.-ROK Alliance in the 21st Century, published by the Korea Institute for National Unification in December 2009, explores the bilateral relationship between the United S...
By Abraham M. Denmark & Richard Fontaine
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Reading Old Magazines: Potential Impact of Climate Change on World Food Supply
Several years ago I was coaching a high school debate team in Boston and my students were asked to debate increasing alternative energy incentives in the United States. As one...
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A New Approach to Ocean Policy
If you put your ear up to the Oval Office and listen very carefully, you can hear the gentle sound of ocean waves lapping. That’s because the presidentially-mandated Interagen...
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Events from Around Town: EIA’s Updated Energy Forecasts to 2035
Yesterday morning I took the Red Line up to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies to attend a presentation by the head of the Energy Information Administr...
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Hizballah's Tired, Derivative New Manifesto
This weekend, I went to the local coffeeshop to read two documents which I had previously skimmed but to which I wanted to devote more attention and felt deserved a closer rea...
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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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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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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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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...