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Reading Old Magazines – “A Question of Birthright”
Nearly 45 years ago, Time magazine reported on the growing global demand for the planet’s fixed quantity of freshwater in an article entitled “A Question of Birthright.” At th...
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Catching up...
...with some weekend reading: --The Marines try to do some counterinsurgency in Helmand, but still without any help from Afghan forces. I'm increasingly pessimistic about Afg...
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Meet Baitullah Mehsud
Foreign Policy has an interesting profile of Baitullah Mehsud up. He's clearly a prime candidate to receive a visit from a Predator drone. But when I read this article, I ca...
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Natural Security in the News: Spotlight on the Hill
With the hubbub over Michael Jackson’s funeral, a rather grisly case of grave-robbery, and interest in the beginning of the G8 meeting in L’Aquila, numerous events occurred in...
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From Strategy to Implementation: Strengthening U.S.-Pakistan Relations
Center for a New American Security’s Chief Executive Officer Nathaniel C. Fick testified on July 7, 2009, at a congressional hearing on U.S.-Pakistan relations. The hearing wa...
By Nathaniel C. Fick
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I always liked Congressman Cunningham...
Tom Ricks gives props to my hometown and its nasty defense contracting corruption habit....
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Natural Security Travel Diary: Colorado
Day five in Colorado with my family brought us to what is surely one of the most beautiful places on Earth - Rocky Mountain National Park. But there's trouble in paradise. I t...
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North Korean Cyberwarfare?
I was listening to NPR last night when they started discussing whether North Korea was responsible for these recent cyberattacks. One commentator they interviewed described t...
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Reading URANIUM in Sandusky
I launched into Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World by author/reporter/editor Tom Zoellner in my hometown of Sandusky, Ohio, appropriately in view of the ...
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Turning the Tide in Afghanistan May Rest with Water in Pakistan
“When it comes to the stability of one of the world's most volatile regions, it's the fate of the Himalayan glaciers that should be keeping us awake at night,” warns Stephan F...
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From Strategy to Implementation: Strengthening U.S.-Pakistan Relations
July 7, 2009 - CNAS CEO Nate Fick recommends a shift in the approach to the military and political aspects of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship in testimony before the Senate Com...
By Nathaniel C. Fick
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In a Changing Environment, Air Force Must Assess the Impacts of Climate Change on Missions
While analysts inside and outside of DOD have been studying the potential effects of climate change on the future operating environment of the U.S. Navy – including CNAS’ own ...
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Personally, I'll stick to curry
The Indian military is experimenting with chili grenades for "riot control and counter-insurgency situations." And to scare away elephants....
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What's going on in Xinjiang?
This story was the top above-the-fold headline in today's Washington Post, but I still feel like the goings-on in western China are not being given much attention (especially ...
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Choice versus Necessity
Dr. Andrew Bacevich has been working overtime lately, with yesterday's Los Angeles Times op-ed and an "appreciation of Graham Greene" piece in the new issue of World Affairs. ...
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Technology & National Security
Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy - TranscriptThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS), in partnership with Google, hosted a panel of six experts from the government and the private sector who offered their perspecti...
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Reading Old Magazines: Scarcity and Strategy
This week’s installment of “Reading Old Magazines” takes us to January 1978, with a Foreign Affairs piece called “Scarcity and Strategy” by Geoffrey Kemp. First, imagine a tim...
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007 he's not.
The incoming head of MI6 is exposed on Facebook. This would never happen to Judi Dench's "M."...
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Happy Independence Day
With Marvin Gaye, your celebration is just getting started... (Hat-tip to MV) ...
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Joe Biden, Iraq Envoy
So Vice Prez Biden is apparently President Obama's envoy to Iraq, possibly due to criticism that the administration hadn't been giving a lot of outward signs that Iraq remains...