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“Strategic” or “Critical?” Actually, Just Confusing
One of my recent posts mildly chastised an author for not strictly defining the difference between “strategic” and “critical” minerals. But as I looked further into language a...
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Trading Up in the Taiwan Strait
In the year and a half since President Ma Ying-jeou took office in Taipei, the world has witnessed an unprecedented rapprochement between China and Taiwan. The two sides have ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Pakistan Dispatch: Bombs and see-saws
Newspapers reported today that the F8 incident reported with much ensuing panic yesterday was a hoax. However, it wasn't long before the small sense of relief was overshadowed...
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Afghanistan, Big and Small
Thom is probably right that the broad support a counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan enjoys among NATO defense ministers adds a little pressure on the president and his a...
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Photo of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Friday
This is a piece of cassiterite, the most common tin ore in the world today. Though this sample comes from a mine in Alaska, cassiterite is mined all over the world, including ...
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Londonstani: Media Star
Hahaha, I'm starting to get media requests via my CNAS email account for Londonstani, which is hilarious if understandable given the quality of his dispatches. I know you guys...
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Weekly News Roundup: China’s Balance between Energy Security and Climate Cooperation
China has been pursuing a dual policy of energy security and climate change leadership. Several news reports this week chronicle China’s attempts to move forward aggressively ...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Attacks in Islamabad
Three attacks in three days in the Pakistani capital as the Waziristan operation goes on. The latest is still happening about 2km from where Londonstani is now. Television new...
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The Iraqi Oil and Gas Framework: Some Background
I’ve heard a lot about Iraqi oil and the important role this resource plays in international politics, but I’ve never been clear about exactly what the Iraqi oil laws were. If...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Islamabad attacks pt2
This post follows on from the earlier information about the attacks today in Islamabad: Three attacks in three days in the Pakistani capital as the Waziristan operation goes o...
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Ricks on Wanat
Abe and I are in the office marvelling at Tom Ricks on Fareed Zakaria's show. "Tom's wearing a tie?" "And I think his hair is combed!" The helicopter footage at the beginning ...
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Escape!
Well, it's not quite Steve McQueen, but David Rohde's story is pretty cool nonetheless. And remember, The Cooler King was caught....
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Reading Old Magazines: Taking Stock
Given all our recent work and the recent press on critical minerals (or “strategic” minerals; more on the distinction later), I gave a look back this week to Peter Harben’s 19...
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National Security Human Capital Program
CNAS Book Launch: The Fourth Star - VideoThe Center for a New American Security held a book launch and discussion, moderated by Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, on The Fourth Star, a book by journalists and form...
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Afghanistan 2011: Three Scenarios
The David Fastabend question -- "How does this end?" -- has been one I have been asking myself in light of the current policy debates on Afghanistan. Accordingly, I sketched o...
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Rohde Q&A
David Rohde is doing a Q&A feature with Times readers, and the questions are incredibly wide-ranging. Credit goes to the reporter for taking the time to answer the hard on...
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Steve Biddle is constitutionally incapable of writing the phrase "half-assed" in an article
This is an important and timely piece of work: It is easy to see why such middle ways are so popular. They could lighten the burden on the federal deficit. They could put fewe...
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East Tennesseans or Pashtuns? You Make the Call!
One of the world's brighter young Afghanistan scholars sent me an email asking if this was a movie about Pashtuns. Because all us mountain people fight over the same three thi...
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CNAS and the Cult of Personality
You have no idea. For every article like this one, Abe and I just launch new schemes to print red t-shirts with Nate's face replacing that of Che. If you are a Washington-base...
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Enough already, it's a war...
You think there is tension between the U.S. military and its civilian leaders? I wouldn't want to be in charge of political-military relations in the Bundestag: Yet politician...