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The Year in Review: What Happened to Our 2010 Wish List?
In January, we released our 2010 Wish List of the natural security-related policies that we most hoped to see. As the year draws to a close, let’s see if we got what we’d wish...
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Inaugural Award for Natural Security @Twitter
Like many of you out there, we now get a fair bit of our news and commentary through those we follow on Twitter rather than through our RSSes or other sources. Here are our pi...
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Inaugural Awards for Natural Security Journalism
The year 2010 is drawing quickly to a close. It’s been a great year for CNAS’s natural security program. We have more of you, dear readers, than ever before. Media coverage of...
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Book Review: Forecast
This has been a strange year for natural disasters. On December 19, 2010, The Washington Post published a report that captured the events of the last year, from quakes, floods...
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Happy Holidays
On behalf of the natural security crew, now dispersed away from the east coast, we wish you a happy long weekend as we take a few days off to enjoy holiday fun with our famili...
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Merry Christmas
Speaking of Tennessee, I am flying back this afternoon for a holiday filled with whisky, family and firearms. Warmest holiday wishes go out to our men and women overseas, who ...
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Two Cheers for Tennessee
The Economist once called it "enlightened mountain Republicanism." For whatever reason, Tennesseans have long looked to retired Sen. Howard Baker (McCallie '43), a moderate Re...
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In Praise of Junior Officers
There is a great passage in Powell's Men at Arnhem in which he describes how junior officers and noncommissioned officers die in combat. I do not have the book in front of me...
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Travel Blog: “Lost in Translation” is a Universal Problem
I put this in the category of “things that really surprised me that should not have surprised me in the least.” A major theme at the gathering I attended in Jordan was the wid...
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Travel Blog: Top 5 Things I Learned in Jordan
The real concerns (and potentially limiting factors) about embracing nuclear energy in the Middle East/North Africa region are more extensive than I suspected. This is especia...
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RLTeffingW is all I'm sayin'...
Now that he's in TRADOC he can even wear his beret like a pastry chef: The World Association of Chefs has named Master Sergeant Mark Morgan of the U.S. Army Rangers as one of ...
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From the Dept. of Horrible Message Discipline
Here's the VPOTUS on Meet the Press yesterday: MR. GREGORY: Let me ask you about Afghanistan. The president's review released this week, you've been described in The New Yor...
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Travel Blog: Natural Security in Jordan
While most of you were enjoying Thanksgiving cheers with friends and family this year, I was in Jordan taking part in extraordinarily informative discussions on resource issue...
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Afghanistan Trip Report, Part IV: Graphing the Conflict
Over the past several days, I have shared both several observations from my most recent trip to Afghanistan as well as a few things I think that policy makers in Washington ca...
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What We're Trying to Do in Afghanistan
A friend of mine pointed out this passage in the press conference with Sec. Gates. This is about as clear an articulation of U.S. and allied goals as you will read: SEC. GATE...
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Greetings from Seoul…
This week, the CNAS Asia-Pacific Security team is in South Korea where we co-hosted a conference with the Seoul-based East Asia Institute, The ROK-US Alliance: Planning for th...
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DOE on Minerals
Yesterday morning at CSIS, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy & International Affairs David Sandalow officially revealed DOE’s new “Critical Materials Strategy.” The...
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Afghanistan Trip Report, Part III: Five Concrete Ways Policy Makers in DC Can Help the War Effort
Sometimes I wish I were just in the "Pointing Out All the Things Going Wrong in Afghanistan" business. Part of my job responsibilities, though, include being in the solutions ...
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At CSIS, Water Politics in the Desert
A guest post today from Jess Glover, who came to CNAS from her time in the Middle East! Monday I swung by CSIS to hear Jon Alterman and General Tony Zinni (ret.) discuss water...
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Afghanistan Trip Report, Part II: So You're Deploying to Afghanistan...
A few weeks ago, I asked for some help from the readership in compiling suggested readings for company and field grade officers about to deploy to Afghanistan. The response I ...