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Take a Tour of the FY 2011 NDAA Natural Security Projects
One of the things I find myself doing time and again while checking out any lengthy defense document is looking at the broad array of projects DOD branches will be, theoretica...
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The National Security Strategy: Show Me The Money
The president will unveil his new national security strategy tomorrow, and early signs are pointing toward "preventing nuclear proliferation" being one of the core goals of th...
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We Review the NDAA Part I: Rare Earth Minerals
I’ll begin our week of pointing to important aspects of the draft National Defense Authorization Act today with Section 835 (Scribd below) which requires DOD to assess any rar...
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This Weekend’s News: The Ag in Afghanistan
I don’t know about you, but my weekend RSS catch-up took me through approximately 9,000 pieces on the Gulf oil disaster. While that’s still obviously the biggest natural secur...
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Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change
Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well. Climatic Cataclysm gathers experts on climate science, ...
By Alexander T.J. Lennon, Christine Parthemore, Derek Mix, J.R. McNeill, Jay Gulledge, John Podesta, Julianne Smith, Leon Fuerth, Peter Ogden, R. James Woolsey, Richard Weitz & Sharon E. Burke
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A great idea...
...from the House Armed Services Committee version of the fiscal year 2011 Defense Authorization bill. Allowing officers "off-ramps" and "on-ramps" to their careers is a good ...
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With No Reason to Go Home
Could aid dependency undermine efforts to bring stability to Yemen? Amid growing instability associated with acute water scarcity, dwindling oil revenue, continued calls for s...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Gregory Johnsen (Revisited)
In honor of Yemen Week here on the blog we wanted to to bring to your attention an oldie but a goodie, a super interesting 5 Questions with Someone Interesting over water issu...
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Yemen and Natural Gas: What’s Up With That?
Last week I had the privilege of speaking with a group of a few dozen government officials from Yemen. They were all concerned about water, the lack of biodiversity in their c...
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The South Moves to Secede from the Union. . . in Yemen
Yesterday an article in the LA Times caught my eye. As if Yemen didn’t have enough to worry about, it now has a good old fashion revolution in the south, with separatists decl...
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Civil-Military Relations in the Obama Era
This article by Jonathan Alter in Newsweek on how Obama tamed his generals is great and worth reading -- although not necessarily for the reasons the author intended. I'm goin...
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The Loneliest Number
A few weeks back, upon receiving my ever-treasured Wired in the mail, I read and fell hopelessly in love with a piece by Clive Thompson, “Why We Should Learn the Language of D...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Managing North Korea: The Need for Coordination between Washington and SeoulAs the hundreds of American and South Korean officials involved in formulating and executing policy towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea over the years will attes...
By Richard Fontaine
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Revisiting Waziristan
Yesterday I swung by CSIS for their fifth installment of their Game Changers and Visionaries series. The topic at hand yesterday had been innovations in the energy sector and ...
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Why Does the State Department Struggle to Protect its Budget? Blame Organizational Culture
I received a note last week from a former USAID administrator lamenting the fact that while the U.S. Department of Defense annual budget remains comfortably north of $700 bill...
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In Afghanistan, Focusing on Climate Change and the Civilian Surge
On day one of his visit to Washington, Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who reaffirmed America’s commitment to Afghanistan long a...
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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...