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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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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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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...
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This Weekend’s News: Energy Efficiency
We often hear the argument that energy and climate policy should focus on efficiency in the near term, leaving switching to more sustainable energy sources to the future. Yest...
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Read This Now: "Understanding and Reducing the Risks of Climate Change for Transboundary Waters"
Peter Gleick and associates at the Pacific Institute released a report last week, Understanding and Reducing the Risks of Climate Change for Transboundary Waters, that explore...
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Britain - counter terrorism - Pakistan - WFT?!
No comment from Londonstani on this, but read the article and comment at will. Ok, maybe a few excerpts would be useful: "Foreign Secretary David Miliband was under pressure t...
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Reading Old Magazines: The Unfortunate Necessity of Energy
Last month marked the 65th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge’s beginning. This battle proved to be a defining event of the western front of World War II, and about 19,000...
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Information Operations and the Taliban
A few of you inquired as to the title of that new anthology on counterinsurgency for which Dave Kilcullen contributed an excellent chapter on intelligence. It has not been pub...
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It's Af-Pak competition time!
Since ISAF and the Pakistani forces are not doing so well at countering the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Tehreek-e-Taliban in Pakistan, it seems the two organisations have d...
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Economics and COIN
A few months ago, my buddy George Feese, a USMA graduate and two-time Iraq veteran with whom I attended both the infantry officer basic course and Ranger School, introduced me...
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Read This Now: "A Post-Copenhagen Pathway" by CSIS’s Sarah Ladislaw
CSIS Senior Fellow and energy über-analyst Sarah Ladislaw released a short policy paper last week, “A Post-Copenhagen Pathway.” (Our colleague Dan covered CSIS’s related event...
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Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
We're taking the day off the blog to observe the holiday. Thank you, Dr. King. Photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. courtesy of the National Park Service....
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Events from Around Town: Post Copenhagen Outlook
The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last month received more anticipation and optimism than New Coke, and much like the long forgotten beverage, once it was finally...
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Events from Around Town: Natural Resources – Plunder or Peace
Yesterday I took a virtual trip to check out the U.S. Institute of Peace event, Natural Resources: Plunder or Peace, via live webcast. The event featured Paul Collier, directo...
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Remarks from Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao at the CNAS U.S. India Initiative Launch Event
On January 12, CNAS launched the U.S.-India Initiative at an event in New Delhi co-hosted by the Aspen Institute India. The event featured Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Ra...
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Security or Non-Security?: Agriculture in Afghanistan
Last Thursday, a somewhat motley crew gathered at the State Department to discuss the U.S. government’s agricultural efforts in Afghanistan. The panel featured Secretary of Ag...
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The Value of a Lessons Learned Process
I was on a plane to the Middle East on Sunday evening when I spotted these lines from Leon Panetta's op-ed in the Washington Post: The main lesson from this attack is that, li...