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Weekly News Roundup: Spotlight on the U.S Army
Big news started early in the week for the U.S. Army on Monday, when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced his plan to grow the branch by 22,000 troops to a total standi...
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The Limits of Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
Steve Biddle of the CFR has long been a friend and mentor, and I have often felt that his central criticism of U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine -- first raised, to my knowledge...
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On Killing Civilians
While in Afghanistan over the past month, I found myself reading a lot of U.S. Civil War history. Despite the fact that I am from Chattanooga, Tennessee, I have never really b...
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At Climate Change Hearing, Skirting the Nuclear Proliferation Issue
“Surely it has to frustrate you coming from where you come from that this country is not embarking on a massive project and working with China and India to do the same – nucle...
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Back from Afghanistan
Greetings, readers. I apologize for being out of the loop for these past four weeks. About five weeks ago, I was asked by General McChrystal to be part of a small team of scho...
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Spotlight on the Hill: Vice President Sharon Burke Testifies on Climate Change and National Security
Yesterday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on “Climate Change and Global Security: Challenges, Threats, and Diplomatic Opportunities.” (CNAS Veep and Nat...
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News Alert: Vice President for Natural Security Sharon Burke Testifies Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee
The Natural Security Blog will be posting our thoughts on Sharon Burke's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee shortly. As she said in her opening statement,...
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CNAS Vice President for Natural Security Sharon Burke Congressional Testimony
CNAS Vice President of Natural Security Sharon Burke testified on Tuesday, July 21, in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the national security implications of...
By Sharon E. Burke
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CNAS Vice President for Natural Security Sharon Burke Congressional Testimony - Video
Center for a New American Security's Vice President for Natural Security Sharon E. Burke testified July 21, 2009 at a Senate hearing on climate change and global security. The...
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Lost in Translation: Navigating the Gap between Climate Science and Policy
Last night CNAS hosted “Lost in Translation,” a dinner event that brought together key policy makers and scientists to discuss the age old question of why the two communities ...
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Reading Old Magazines: The Environmental Factor
“Do the world’s environmental problems threaten American national security?” wonders Geoffrey Dabelko in this autumn 1999 Wilson Quarterly piece, “The Environment Factor.” In ...
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Dueling Critiques on Afghanistan
Rambling, unscientific, and possibly inaccurate analysis from me as I try to keep up with news from Afghanistan: It seems like the serious criticisms of the campaign increasin...
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Natural Security Weekly News Roundup
While not even vaguely as exciting as reports of flesh-eating military robots (which, either fortunately or unfortunately depending on one’s point of view, turned out to actua...
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Photo of the Week: Because Nobody Should Read Too Much on Fridays
Perennially ravaged by civil war and resource conflict, the DRC is in the midst of confronting yet another natural security challenge, adding trial to tribulation. The region’...
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Learning to Eat Humans with a Spoon: Natural Security Lessons from Hollywood
By the year 2022, things have taken a decided turn for the worse in New York City – and the world in general, we’re led to believe – in the 1973 classic dystopian film Soylent...
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CNAS Annual Conference Video - Striking a Balance: A New American Security
Center for a New American Security (CNAS) President John Nagl discusses the tradition and importance of the CNAS annual conference, which this year featured renowned national ...
By John A. Nagl
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From the Wire: Post-Conflict Recovery in Biodiversity Hotspots
Just as we need to be more cognizant of the role of natural security issues in shaping where U.S. strategic interests lie – and where we engage our troops – a guest post on Th...
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Lunchtime Counterinsurgency Reading
Doing my daily reading on the interwebs and found a couple nifty things on Foreign Affairs. Strategic studies guru Eliot Cohen weighs in with his own counterinsurgency readin...
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Rare Earths and the Challenge for American Energy Security
“They are the backbone of the Information Age and, potentially, the clean energy future. They are in iPods, Blackberrys, and plasma TVs. They are powerful and compact; they a...
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Let's see how this fits into the QDR
Now here's a future combat system that exemplifies "balance." UPDATE: The truth is stranger than fiction, as two readers revealed with this link. Who comes up with this stuff...