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In the Niger Delta, Gazprom Joins the Fray
Last week Russian gas giant Gazprom and the state-operated Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) agreed to a $2.5 billion joint venture, rather obtusely named NiGaz, ...
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Centcom Update - General David H. Petraeus Slides from June 11
General David H. Petraeus delivered the morning keynote address at the Center for a New American Security's third annual conference, "Striking a Balance: A New American Securi...
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Repeating Mistakes?
Here's Bob Woodward recounting NSA James Jones' visit to Afghanistan: "National Security Adviser James L. Jones told U.S. military commanders here last week that the Obama adm...
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Iraq Roundup
Lots of stuff on the U.S. pullout from Iraqi cities today. The reactions of Iraqis serve as a sobering reminder to us Americans that Iraqis see things quite a bit differently ...
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For DOD, Robots Tomorrow Requires New Strategy Today
Whether it’s the next generation of the PackBot, MedBot or Predator drone, there is little doubt that military robotics will grow exponentially over the next several decades a...
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Natural Security Issues on the Hill
On Friday, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), but not without considerabl...
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Spork: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Sri Lanka?
As I sort through my pile of vacation emails, I found this op-ed that my colleague MZ passed along last week. I don't know much about Sri Lanka, but I remember some of our rea...
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Insecure about Iraq
One of our regular blog readers requested some discussion of the recent spate of bombings in Iraq and the implications for the U.S. pullout from Iraqi cities set for June 30 (...
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Technology & National Security
Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy - VideoThe 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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Natural Security in the News: Spotlight Iraq and Afghanistan
This week’s news roundup takes us to U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Iraq, the government is beginning to be forced to deal with issues related to its natural reso...
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In Iraq, Water is Central to Any Population-Centric Strategy
In Tuesday’s edition of The Independent, Patrick Cockburn shares his observations on the outlook for Iraq in the coming year, taking a rather dismal view of the country’s futu...
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What we should really be worried about...
Apologies for the delay in posting new stuff, but I'm currently on vacation at my beloved childhood home in America's Finest City. The gorgeous weather, fantastic surfing, and...
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Securing Afghanistan, American Midwest Style
Last week, we featured a Washington Post article on the critical task of revitalizing Afghanistan’s agricultural economy. Well, the battle continues, and McClatchy reports tha...
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Traditional Propaganda
There is something disturbingly reassuring in watching real honest-to-goodness traditional propaganda. It gives you a false sense of superiority, in a sort of twisted way, to ...
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You Can’t Spell “Stupid” without “ID”, and maybe not without “Cav”
Hello all. The landlord asked me to enter real subtle-like. So I am doing my best to comply. Bear with my reticence. ~ Denominator Now look, I’ve served in the 1st Cav. I’ve ...
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This Element's a Time Bomb
While we usually talk about critical minerals that are important to the modern economy and for uses in weapons systems and high-tech gear, the June 2009 Scientific American fe...
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Kilcullen on Authors@Google
Many thanks to the reader who saw this YouTube clip of David Kilcullen speaking to the nerds at Google. I always learn something when I listen to or speak with Dave -- even wh...
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Funding U.S. Counterinsurgency Wars
Steve Biddle, in typically intelligent analysis, considers a "double transformation": Ironically, the traditionalists are right about tomorrow, but the young Turks are right a...
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Clowns to the left of me / jokers to the right
Man, we are catching it from all sides today!...
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Why does Abu Muqawama hate freedom?
Oh, goodness, I have offended the Blackfivers....