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To be fair, "fog of war" was suggested by the editors...
Elizabeth Bumiller, you are in the penalty box of the English language. Describing the many great memoirs that have been written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, she wr...
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This Weekend's News: Big Natural Security Elections – Ukraine Thinks Gas while Venezuela Explores Geoengineering
The biggest natural security news through the long D.C. snowpocalypse weekend involved coverage of two energy-important elections, one now held and the other to come later thi...
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Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World - Transcript
Download the transcript from the January 26 event on the contested commons - sea, air, space, and cyberspace - including remarks from: Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gar...
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Abu Muqawama on Twitter
Now that I am no longer blogging on a daily basis, the best way to see what has caught my eye in a given day is by following this blog's Twitter feed. I know it can be an anno...
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Intelligence Assessments & Climate Change: 2009 v. 2010
I thought it would be super fun to spend a Wednesday night comparing the intelligence community’s threat assessment language on climate change from last year and this year (pd...
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In Praise of Quants
A week ago, I spent some time on the blog whining about Quants and their work on counterinsurgency. Since then, two scholars -- distinguished veterans of the war in Iraq -- ha...
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Natural Security in Yesterday’s SASC Hearing
Yesterday was full of fun with the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the FY2011 budget. Here are the natural security-related exchanges from the transcript, beginning...
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In Budget, Emphasis on Investments in Energy Innovation
The President released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 budget yesterday alongside the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). (For a solid analysis on the budget and the QDR, check o...
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This Weekend's News: All About Nuclear
The United States made an initial pledge to reduce greenhouse gases 4% by 2020 in a letter sent to the United Nations. How are we going to do it? Last week made clear that nuc...
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From the Dept. of Friends Selling the Books of Friends
I just got a package in the mail that made me smile. Matt Gallagher -- American Hero, Champion Foosballer, and author of a legendary blog written while soldiering in Iraq -- h...
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Travis Sharpe: Lead Author, QDR 2014
Travis Sharpe better watch out, because Shawn Brimley used to sit in his comfortable perch at CNAS and write all kinds of sensible stuff about the budget and the QDR, and look...
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DOD Announces Greenhouse Gas Reductions
Big news! DOD announced its greenhouse gas reduction targets (for non-combat activities, of course) today. This is great news. My follow on questions are how the responsibilit...
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G****m Phonies...
William Safire's obituary in the Economist was one of the cleverest I have read, but the Onion's obituary for J.D. Salinger is pretty awesome as well....
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The Economy, Energy and Climate Change: The State of the Union
Last night President Obama delivered his first State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. (A full transcript and video of the speech are available, courtes...
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Draft QDR Leaked
Big news in defense policy circles. A draft of the QDR has been leaked to Inside Defense. It -- the QDR, not the leak -- has a strong whiff of Brimley about it. I would post t...
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Contested Commons and Natural Security
The full CNAS team attended our awesome colleague Abe Denmark’s event yesterday at the Newseum that focused on his just-released edited volume, Contested Commons. The event fe...
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The Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World
On January 26, CNAS launched a major report on the contested commons - sea, air, space, and cyberspace - at an event featuring Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead;...
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Energy in Haiti
The tragedy of human suffering in the wake of the recent earthquake in Haiti generated an outpouring of public and private support (PDF). In short order the movement to the po...
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From the Dept. of Further Reasons to Bang Your Head on Your Desk Repeatedly When Thinking About the Decision to Invade Iraq
This priceless email report is from Beirut-based Mitch Prothero, of The National: The President of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council Sayyed Ammar Hakim visited the resting pla...
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New CNAS Working Paper on Climate Change and the QDR
Christine Parthemore and Will Rogers released their working paper, Promoting the Dialogue: Climate Change and the Quadrennial Defense Review, this morning. The working paper p...