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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 ar...
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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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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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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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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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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 Afgh...
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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 can'...
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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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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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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 th...
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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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I always liked Congressman Cunningham...
Tom Ricks gives props to my hometown and its nasty defense contracting corruption habit....
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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...
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From Strategy to Implementation: Strengthening U.S.-Pakistan Relations
July 7, 2009 - CNAS CEO Nate Fick recommends a shift in the approach to the military and political aspects of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship in testimony before the Senate Com...
By Nathaniel C. Fick
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Technology & National Security
Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy - TranscriptThe 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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Choice versus Necessity
Dr. Andrew Bacevich has been working overtime lately, with yesterday's Los Angeles Times op-ed and an "appreciation of Graham Greene" piece in the new issue of World Affairs. ...
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What's going on in Xinjiang?
This story was the top above-the-fold headline in today's Washington Post, but I still feel like the goings-on in western China are not being given much attention (especially ...