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Natural Security on the Front Page: Afghanistan
As our own Sharon Burke wrote earlier this month in her Natural Security concept paper: President Obama has stated repeatedly that peace in Afghanistan will be contingent on e...
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Natural Security in the News: Spotlight on Energy
From Nigeria to outer space, the news this week featured a number of developments highlighting energy security challenges. Shell announced that oil shipments from Nigeria wil...
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Arguing Iran
I suspect the critical op-eds by Paul Wolfowitz and Charles Krauthammer in today's Washington Post will merely serve to convince the president that he is doing the right thing...
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Triage Live
The highly entertaining panel discussion of our new paper on Afghanistan and Pakistan can now be listened to via the CNAS website for those of you who could not attend CNASapa...
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I suppose this is a reasonable request, but...
...at the same time, I don't want to imagine the alternatives to "Senator" and "ma'am" that were running through this brigadier general's head: Overheard at a Senate hearing y...
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Funding IW
From Inside Defense: June 17, 2009 -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates is considering options to reshape the military that could squeeze up to $75 billion from current budget pl...
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Why DC is such a weird town, explained through basketball
This has nothing to do with counterinsurgency, but it's a great piece of sports and political journalism: For people who don't spend much time in Washington, all this can be c...
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Old Dix & Co.
James Dao is now covering what is known as "the Jaffe beat" for the New York Times, examining things like the cultures of the services and the military removed from its combat...
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Congress Strikes Back
The Washington Post: WASHINGTON -- Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-22 program got an unexpected lift Wednesday after House lawmakers approved $369 million to continue production of ...
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Growing
“Could the next war be powered by potatoes?” So wonders Tina Casey in CleanTechnica, commenting on the U.S. military’s efforts to innovate and integrate alternative energy tec...
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Good news from the tribal areas... Seriously!
I missed this, but my eagle-eyed readers did not: DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A new Islamic militia leader has emerged in Pakistan to openly challenge al Qaida-affiliated war...
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Anyone else noticed that the editor in chief of the New York Times has been reporting from Tehran?
Is this good, or should he be back in New York trying to lose less money this quarter?...
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No
I simply do not think this claim that Lebanese Hizballah is on the ground in Tehran cracking skulls to be credible. In many domestic conflagrations, outside interferrence is a...
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COIN for Dummies, Written by Dummies
Asad Durrani, the former chief of the ISI in Pakistan, explains counterinsurgency warfare to his countrymen in this article. You, dear readers, probably did not know that COIN...
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Is Climate Change A Developing Country Problem?
Yesterday the White House released a major report (see video) produced by a consortium of 13 federal agencies organized by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The report,...
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Next Generation National Security Leaders
A new CNAS program, and a great opportunity for some of the under-35s who read this blog. Folks with "downrange" experience are especially encouraged to apply....
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More Cold Water
A friend of mine raised a good point regarding the Spiegel/VOA claim that 5,000 Hizballah footsoldiers were on the streets of Tehran. 1) Hizballah had approximately 1,200 full...
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What Kind of Blog is this?
One of the hardest tasks for a think tank is deciding what not to publish. The CNAS Natural Security Program is a project apart, however, and that’s why we thought this blog w...
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The debate over drones is getting serious...
The Onion is now weighing in....
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FATA Follies?
For a moment there, I was excited by the possibility that the Pakistani Army might consolidate its gains in the Swat Valley and try a little of the "hold" and "build" phases o...