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In Afghanistan, Meeting Near- and Long-term Energy Sustainability Goals
Later this morning, John Nagl and I are going up on the Hill where John will join a panel of experts to discuss military fuel convoys, energy for our bases in Iraq and Afghani...
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Midweek Reading
1. Jane Mayer's lengthy article in the New Yorker on the National Security Agency should be required reading within defense policy circles because it raises so many good quest...
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On the Hill with John Nagl
Tomorrow, join us on the Hill for a briefing on fuel convoys and DOD energy policy writ large. Our faithful leader Dr. John Nagl will join a panel of experts to discuss the ne...
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ND+2 and Other Stuff
Reading through the Washington Post on the bus this morning, these paragraphs jumped out at me: “This is not classic combat, where you see people advancing and you shoot them,...
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To Secure U.S. Interests in the Arctic, Ratifying UNCLOS is Key
Over the last several years, the United States has elevated the Arctic region as a U.S. national security prerogative. Just days before leaving office in January 2009, Preside...
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Two Views from Lebanon on Yesterday
My friend Sean takes issue with what I wrote yesterday. Sean is obviously partisan on this issue (and I do not use that word "partisan" pejoratively), but read his account of ...
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Israel's Borders: The Day After
So the events of yesterday do not, thankfully, seem to have kicked off a regional war, though continue to knock on wood. As predicted, though, the violence along Israel's bord...
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This Weekend’s News: The Nuclear Industry’s State of Play
Since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that crippled several nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station, policymakers and nuclear watchdog groups...
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Just Another Sunday in the Levant
By now, you have read the news that protesters who attempted to march into Israel and Israeli-controlled territory* (here I am referring to the Golan Heights, which are disput...
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Weekend Reading
1. I remember when Andrew Lytle died. I was a senior in high school in Chattanooga, and though I had not yet read anything he had written, my mother patiently explained the So...
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Happy Minerals Report Release Day!
Today we officially release CNAS's long-in-the-works minerals report. If you saw our website or my guest-authored piece in Danger Room yesterday, you may have seen that it is ...
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Rare Earths Piece at Danger Room
Today, the kind scribes at Danger Room allowed me to post a piece on rare earths in advance of tomorrow's official release of my new minerals report. Check out "Rare Earths Wo...
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In Libya, while you weren't looking...
...the rebels have been making some encouraging advances in and around Misurata. The reporting of C.J. Chivers both in the New York Times and on his Twitter feed has been esse...
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The Minerals Bibliography You've All Been Waiting For
As promised yesterday, I'm posting here a bibliography for minerals. This includes many articles and books I've read in researching the topic for the minerals report we'll be ...
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John Nagl in ... Paris Match
Bien sûr...
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The Least Encouraging Sentence You Will Ever Read in the Washington Post
From an article today by Greg Miller and Karen Brulliard: The Washington Post does not typically publish the names of intelligence officers working undercover. Well! Can you...
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Minerals Report Release Week
We’re planning to release our much-anticipated minerals report this week (followed by outstanding works by other CNASers in the weeks ahead). I know you’re all anxious, especi...
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Beyond Bin Laden: A Readers’ Guide
As some of you may know, I spent several days last week chained to a chair at my local coffee shop producing a chapter for a new e-book Random House is publishing on what the ...
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This Weekend’s News: Eye on ASEAN
Southeast Asian leaders concluded the 18th Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit this weekend. Coverage of the summit seemed to focus mostly on the protracted...
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You realize they've never actually won a war, right?
If you've been following the reaction of Pakistanis to the killing of Osama bin Laden over the past week, it has been very difficult to not be impressed by folks like Mosharra...