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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...
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Thinking about balance
Secretary of Defense Gates has been beating the drum of "balance" between conventional and irregular warfare as an organizing principle for quite awhile now, but despite the d...
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Across the River: Highlights from an Air Force Meeting
Yesterday I attended a small “National Security Scholars” conference put together by the Air Force. Here is a survey of the natural security issues mentioned in this one-day, ...
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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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Ahmadinejad's Tropical Getaway?
Iranian penetration of Latin America is a serious concern. Except, you know, when it doesn't exist: MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- For months, the reports percolated in Washington and...
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Send COIN manuals to India
Maoist insurgency remains alive and well in India. Clearly the solution is to send surplus copies of FM 3-24 to New Delhi. Who wants to organize the book drive?...
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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...