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CNAS Launch: Inheritance and Way Forward Panel
Moderator Dr. Richard Danzig led the panel discussion of the CNAS report “The Inheritance and the Way Forward,” written by co-founders Kurt Campbell and Michèle Flournoy. Cam...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Danzig
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CNAS Launch: Iraq- What's Next?
Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) moderated a spirited discussion of the CNAS report “Phased Transition: A Responsible Way Forward and Out of Iraq,” which argues that America has three...
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CNAS Official Launch: Chuck Hagel Keynote
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held its official launch on June 27, 2007 at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. The day-long event, entitled ...
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CNAS Official Launch: Hillary Clinton Keynote Address
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held its official launch on June 27, 2007 at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. The day-long event, entitled ...
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The Quadrennial Defense Review: A Model for the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review
Michèle A. Flournoy, President and Co-Founder of the Center for a New American Security, testifies before the House Committee on Homeland Security...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Introduction
This is the first post on Abu Muqawama, a blog intended to be a resource and clearinghouse for information relating to contemporary insurgencies. As one might guess from the n...
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl—a veteran of both Operation Desert...
By John A. Nagl
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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Fick signed up for the Marine Corps Officer Candidates School after receiving a B.A. from Dartmouth in 1999 because he wanted a challenge. He got one. He made it through the s...
By Nathaniel C. Fick
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This Man's Army: A Soldier's Story from the Front Lines of the War on Terrorism
Born into a family with a long history of military service dating back to the Revolutionary War, Andrew Exum enrolled in Army ROTC to pay for his Ivy League education....
By Andrew M. Exum
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Best Classroom Presentation Ever
This may seem a little incongruous today given the terrible news out of Texas. But as our hearts go out to the families of the victims there, maybe this can serve as an antido...
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Stuck in the middle with you? Threading the needle between Moselle and Bacevich on Stablization in Afghanistan
Tyler Moselle, a smart and capable researcher based at Harvard's Carr Center, has a bizarre op-ed in today's Financial Times in which he warns that counterinsurgency not be co...
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Learning Lessons in Afghanistan, from Tokyo
Last week I spent a few days in Tokyo at a symposium hosted by the University of Tokyo on the role of natural resources and infrastructure in post-conflict peacebuilding. The ...
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Read This Now: America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation
The National Academies Press recently released an overview and summary of “America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation,” a study by the National Research Council pu...
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It’s Budget Week Part 3: Climate Change
One question has persisted for me with most every reporter I’ve spoken with in the past few weeks: what will the administration do with regard to climate change in the budget?...
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Military Intervention: A Checklist of Key Considerations
Col. (Ret.) John Collins spent 30 years (and three wars) as an officer in the U.S. Army and then another 25 years as a researcher for the Congressional Research Service (CRS)....
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Natural Security News, Vietnam Edition
As you know, Christine Parthemore is traveling in East Asia where she is conducting research for our South China Sea project. She’s in Vietnam today, and she has put together ...
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On Biofuels, Administration Says Go Big or Go Home
Yesterday, the Obama administration made a huge investment in U.S. energy security by announcing that the Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest $510 million ...
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This Weekend’s New: Remembrance and Resiliency
It was an emotional weekend for most as the nation reflected on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. There was widespread coverage as one can imagine. I was parti...
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Read This Now: Quadrennial Technology Review
I was riding my bike on Ohio Drive near West Potomac Park on Sunday and saw the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Solar Decathlon, which reminded me that DOE just published its fir...
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Events from Around Town: National Petroleum Council Report: Prudent Development of North America's Oil & Gas Resources
Yesterday, the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) hosted key members of the National Petroleum Council (NPC) to discuss its recently released report “Prud...