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Grading Hizballah in 2006 (against the curve)
My schedule is packed with meetings today, so posting will be light, but this beat out Iranian rocket tests for the lead story in yesterday's Jerusalem Post: During his resear...
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Book Review: Crude World
This won’t be a full review of the new book Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by writer Peter Maass, as it was treated to good reviews already this past week in The New...
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Natural Security News: Update
One more news item from today, just flagged by a DOD contact: UPI reports that the CIA is opening a Center on Climate Change and National Security. This is big news, especiall...
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Lithium: Not Just a Nirvana Song
The Natural Security team has been very interested in critical minerals recently, and in the months to come we’re planning to look deeper into how minerals relate to U.S. nati...
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On Hizballah's Strategy
As you might imagine, I have spent a lot of time in the bars and cafes of Beirut talking with journalists, analysts and other friends about Hizballah and its strategy. It's a ...
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Afghanistan and Obama
In my opinion, Ross Douthat (with Vinegar Joe Lieberman) gets a lot right in this column. Namely: In a conversation last week, the Connecticut senator was careful to avoid tak...
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Dictator Chic
Oh, Muammar......
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Reading Old Magazines: The World’s Resources II- Minerals, Food, and Water
Recent reports of China’s corner on current production of rare earth minerals have caused quite a stir. In the recent proliferation of authors and institutes looking at U.S. m...
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Atone, Crazy People
It's a little odd being in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur. Because cars are banned from the roads, you can literally walk down deserted four-lane arteries in the middle of the day, w...
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Sunday Afghanistan Roundup
I spent yesterday driving around the West Bank with some friends -- I'm sorry to say the famous kunafeh at al-Quds in Nablus was not, I did not think, as good as that at Sea S...
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Lessons in Sharing, Part II
Reader "Devil Dawg" writes in from Iraq to illustrate the problem I addressed in an earlier post. Not being able to share information with our alleged "partners" due to classi...
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Weekly News Roundup: Climate Change Takes Center Stage
This week has been full of major speeches—and some action—on natural security. President Obama addressed these issues not once, but twice at the United Nations. Meanwhile, the...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg's Keynote Address at "China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power" - TranscriptChina’s rise is one of the most significant geopolitical events in modern history, with important ramifications for U.S. interests, regional power balances, and the internatio...
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CNAS CEO Nathaniel Fick's Opening Remarks at "China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power" - Transcript
China’s rise is one of the most significant geopolitical events in modern history, with important ramifications for U.S. interests, regional power balances, and the internatio...
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UK Strategy and Defense Policy: Where Should It Go?
It has not escaped the British Ministry of Defense -- excuse me, Ministry of Defence -- that we colonists have a rather more lively public debate on our defense policy than do...
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Losing Traditions in a Changing Climate
With the opening of the Arctic and alternating droughts and floods across Africa, it may not seem like recent reports of poor hop and grape yields are major security concerns....
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Contrary to popular belief...
Eli Lake and others are now reporting a resource request for Afghanistan will come on Friday, while Spencer Ackerman is at the Marine Corps University's COIN Leadership Confer...
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Two Funny Things
1. How great was Qaddafi today? I mean, classic. The Guardian has the best re-cap: He tore up a copy of the UN charter in front of startled delegates, accused the security cou...
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Natural Security by Another Definition
Today we wanted to just flag another new report out called “Natural Security,” by Washington, D.C.-based conservation group American Rivers. Obviously the group has a differen...
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Petraeus on COIN, CT and Afghanistan
Petraeus in the Times of London. Countering terrorists and extremism requires more than a conventional military approach. Military operations enable you to clear areas of ext...