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Final Frontier Week Part 3: Will the Sun Take Down the Electric Grid?
Over the past few days, we’ve been highlighting how space technology can be used to improve our understanding of climate and environmental change as we examine the security an...
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Egypt Trip Report: Part IV
Before 11 February, before the fall of Mubarak, before the crowds in central Cairo torched the headquarters of the ruling party (watching it burn for for three glorious days a...
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Jean Lartéguy est mort
I arrived back in the States to some sad news: Jean Lartéguy, author of The Centurions and The Praetorians, has passed away in Paris, and the publisher of his books in America...
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Final Frontier Week Day 2 Bonus Feature: CubeSats Riding High with Glory
The launch of NASA’s new earth observation satellite, Glory, was delayed today, but rest assured that it will not have to make the long trip into space alone when it does take...
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Final Frontier Week Part 2: The President’s Budget and Earth Observation Satellites
As Christine discussed in three posts last week, the president’s budget showed much hope for those of us interested in natural security issues. One category particularly near ...
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It’s Final Frontier Week!
Last week we witnessed a new high in anti-climate change posturing in Washington (or should I say pro-climate change?), to include extreme measures like de-funding the positio...
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On Libya
I am about to depart Cairo after five great days here spent conducting interviews and gathering "atmospherics" in post-Mubarak Egypt. I want to thank my employers for allowing...
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Egypt Trip Report: Part III
The third part of my trip report to Egypt concerns a few of the worries I expressed in the first part of my trip report. Specifically, I worry about how the Egyptian Military ...
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Happy President's Day
Happy President's Day from the Natural Security Blog. We will be taking today off, but we look forward to returning to our regular Natural Security business tomorrow! Photo: M...
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Egypt Trip Report: Part II
I am rather busy today, traveling around looking for answers to some of the security-related questions I posed in Part I of my Egypt Trip Report (see below). I want to briefly...
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Egypt Trip Report: Part I
If you've been following my Twitter feed, you'll know I arrived in Cairo a few days ago and will be here for another few days doing some research. I tacked this short visit on...
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It’s Budget Week Part 2: Cyber Security for the Evolving Grid
We’ve kept this mostly under wraps so far, but our team has been digging lately into cyber security issues related to the expanding smart grid infrastructure in this country. ...
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It’s Budget Week Part 1: Minerals Get a Boost
Of all the things receiving a newly important role in the administration’s 2012 Budget, I honestly didn’t expect to see minerals make the list. Over the past few years we’ve b...
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Monday Grab Bag: Traveling, Some Reading, and A Conservative Take on USAID
I will be traveling for the next two weeks in Europe and the Middle East. I suspect I will be able to post material to the blog during that time, but have patience if a few da...
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This Weekend’s News: Energy in President Obama’s FY 2012 Budget
President Obama will propose his fiscal year 2012 budget today with a number of proposed budget cuts to domestic spending programs, including, as The New York Times reported y...
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Know Hope
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Two Questions on Egypt
The first is silly, but in my paper edition of the Washington Post this morning, David Ignatius says Hosni Mubarak's nickname is "the smiling cow" while Jim Hoagland, on the s...
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DNI's Threat Assessment: Natural Security-Style
Okay folks, it's time to evaluate how natural resources play a role in this year's Annual Threat Assessment from the intelligence community. I'm a bit slow to read through tod...
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Well, I think we can all agree that speech will calm everyone down.
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"If you're going to kill the king, kill the king"*
A friend just walked into my office and said that. He worries that if this is a half-revolution and the regime reasserts itself after the departure of Hosni Mubarak, the regim...