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Pakistan & China, BFF
In honor of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s visit to Washington this week, we will be focusing the blog on Afghanistan and Pakistan (given the consensus that the later is crit...
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This Weekend’s News: Continuing Saga of the Oil Spill
The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is still the dominant and more important story on energy nearly every day. This weekend, coverage of the massive oil spill included some use...
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Two from the Post
Woke up this morning in Riyadh to spot two articles in today's Washington Post that made me smile. The first was an op-ed from former Abu Muqawama contributor Erin "Charlie" S...
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Times Square and the evolving nature of radicalisation
I've avoided posting on the recent attempt to bomb Times Square as I'm not in Pakistan at the moment, and couldn't honestly say from London what Pakistanis think about it. How...
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Triage : Blue Steel :: Leverage : Magnum
A report in the Associated Press today mentioned a new paper that I have been working on for the past few months: The war effort in Afghanistan suffers from a lack of attentio...
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In Bangladesh, Challenges and Opportunities
“If you had to pick a place that would be the mother of all humanitarian emergencies over the next 20 years, the Navy and Air Force might focus on Bangladesh,” said Robert Kap...
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Events from Around Town: China's Appetite for Raw Materials and Energy
Today we'll be giving you a double dose of blog-ness, with postings from Will and myself. Today, I'll recap an event I attended on Wednesday across the street at the Wilson C...
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Natural Security: Navigating the Future Global Environment- Transcript
On April 28, 2010, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted the event Natural Security: Navigating the Future Global Environment featuring Carol Browner, the Assis...
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Are You Following Us?
If you aren't already following us on Facebook and Twitter, you're so missing out! Natural Security Facebook Page @clparthemore @wmrogers @herbcarmen @OSaracenU Thank you, dea...
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Top 5: U.S.-Asian Technical Assistance Programs
In celebration of the Natural Security Blog’s unofficial Asia Week, we thought it might be interesting to dig through some of the ongoing cooperative programs between the U.S....
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(Hardcore) Quote (from a Veteran) of the Day
Who knew Michael Caine was a veteran of the Korean War? I sure didn't. I thought this quote of his from an article in the New Yorker, though, was pretty awesome: “When I was n...
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Events from Around Town: Crabs, Korea and the sinking of the Cheonan
Last week while checking out an event for a CNAS colleague's blog, I couldn’t help but get caught up in some interesting natural security issues I hadn’t heard much of before....
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Pakistan's Jihadis 2.0
Just as we (by this I mean myself mainly) were wondering why the hell Pakistani militants had killed Khalid Khawaja, a man with serious militant sympathies and connections of ...
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A Big Idea
No one has ever explicitly told me this is part of my job, but I have always thought that one of the more useful things think tanks can do is to mine the world of the social s...
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This Weekend's News: Energy, Nonproliferation, and More Energy
This week (and those ahead) we’ll be watching news from the NPT conference for discussions on the intersections of energy and nonproliferation. You may be asking, “What does t...
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Traveling and Reading and Travel Reading
I have been tying up some loose ends here at CNAS, putting the final touches on my new Afghanistan paper as well as finishing up a research proposal with LTG (Ret.) Dave Barno...
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Dear Readers
As you know, we've been semi-absent from real blogging for about a week as we wrapped up two reports and prepared for our big event yesterday, Natural Security: Navigating the...
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Natural Security: Navigating the Future Global Environment- Panel Discussion
On April 28, 2010, the Center for a New American Security hosted an event on the effect of cliamte change on our armed services. Following a keynote address by Carol Browner, ...
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Natural Security: Navigating the Future Global Environment- Keynote Address
The effects of climate change and the way we use energy are significant U.S. national security challenges. Addressing them will be increasingly important for our nation's defe...
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Natural Security Event UPDATE
Couldn't make it today? Was the Willard too packed for you? Live in Papua New Guinea? Accidentally slept in? While we wish you could have been here, but we're glad to say you...