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Well, I guess if people like Arafat and Begin could win this thing...
Really? I like the guy, but dude's been president for, like, three weeks. Update: Hahaha. Greatest comment on teh internets ever: “YO OBAMA, I’M GONNA LET YOU FINISH, BUT I JU...
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Weekly News Roundup: First Responders
One disaster after another seems to be hitting the Pacific Ocean area. We’ve been following emergency relief efforts as the military tries to aid those hit by Typhoons Parma a...
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The Financial World Meets Robert Fisk
This would be really funny if it were not so serious. After Robert Fisk -- whose very name has long been a verb meaning to viciously fact-check -- wrote a very thinly sourced ...
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Events from Around Town: Toward a New Climate Network
Yesterday, I headed down to the Hall of the States near Capitol Hill to attend a conference entitled “Toward a New Climate Network: Transatlantic Solutions for a Low Carbon Ec...
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Events from Around Town: Nuclear Power Plants, Now Travel-Sized!
Yesterday, I attended the CSIS event Scaling Down Reactors: A Different Model for Nuclear Energy, moderated by Frank Verrastro, Director and Senior Fellow with its Energy and ...
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Live Blogging DoD Roundtable with U.S. Navy CDR Matthew Ovios, Today 1500 EST
We will live blog a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable this afternoon at 3 p.m. EST with U.S.Navy CDR Matthew Ovios, commanding officer of the USS Ingraham. CDR Ovios will discuss th...
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Events from Around Town: China and Climate Security
It is always great to get out of the office and I was fortunate enough yesterday to get over to my old stomping grounds at the Wilson Center for an event on China and Climate ...
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Afghanistan and/vs. China
This may surprise some of you, but within the walls of 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., there is a pretty lively debate among the scholars and staff who work here about whether or not ...
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Pakistan Dispatch - How do lose trust and alienate people 101
You're western European diplomatic staff in a country with a security problem, and the people kinda suspect that you and your ilk are to blame for it. However, the top priorit...
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Live Blog: DoD Roundtable with U.S. Navy CDR Matthew Ovios
The following is a live blog feed of the “DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable” with U.S. Navy CDR Matthew Ovios, commanding officer of the USS Ingraham. The USS Ingraham had provided ...
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Pakistan Dispatch - Newspaper pick ups
So, everyone know's who.. sorry what.. Kerry Lugar is, right? There have been some references in the comments section about the Pakistani military's public relations efforts. ...
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CNAS Report Launch "China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power" - Highlight Video
Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg delivered the keynote address and The Honorable Patrick Cronin, Dr. Michael Green, Robert Kaplan, and Abe Denmark participated in a p...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Diplomatic Genius from Pakistan
So my boss is in New York debating Ralph Peters, Pat Lang and Steve Clemons on Afghanistan and Pakistan. The latter are defending the motion "America cannot and will not succe...
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The Fourth Star: Greg Jaffe, David Cloud and a Free Glass of Wine
Attention, all readers of this blog: The fellows and staff of the Center for a New American Security are hosting a book party for Greg and David's excellent new biography of J...
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Storms, Teapots, etc.
I think Gen. McChrystal erred in talking publicly about the war in Afghanistan because he is a man who, constitutionally, cannot not tell the truth about his assessment of the...
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Pakistan Dispatch - Kerry who?!
Kerry Lugar is the talk of Islamabad. And as tempted as Londonstani was at first to assume everyone was referring to a new pop star rival to Britney it turns out Kerry Lugar i...
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News Update
Politico is reporting this morning on a $3 million dollar earmark to bring the rare earth mine at Mountain Pass, California back into full production. The mine, managed by Mol...
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Three Books on Afghanistan
It's important to be honest about what we do not know. As many of you are aware, I have an academic background in the language, cultures, politics and history of the Arabic-sp...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Peter Maass
Yesterday I had a great phone conversation with Peter Maass. I reviewed his new book Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil for the blog last week, and he was kind enough to...
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Panel Discussion at "China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power" - Video
The Honorable Patrick Cronin, Dr. Michael Green, Robert Kaplan, and Abe Denmark discuss the release of the CNAS report China's Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Rela...
By Michael Green, Patrick M. Cronin & Robert D. Kaplan