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On Nation Building
Max Boot's provocative op-ed in the Los Angeles Times in defense of nation-building has been getting people excited and angry. Max: If you want yet another example of how cos...
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Summer Minerals Reading List: “Elements of Security: Mitigating the Risks of U.S. Dependence on Critical Minerals” and “Rare Earth Elements in National Defense: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options”
Not surprisingly there has been greater attention to critical minerals recently, including potential U.S. vulnerability with dependence on rare earth elements. The increased f...
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With U.S. Troops Continuing to Drawdown from Iraq, Many Challenges Remain
As the U.S. military continues its drawdown of troops from Iraq – with the last of those troops to leave by December 31, 2011 – policymakers and analysts are likely to raise c...
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This Weekend’s News: New Thinking on Adapting to Inexorable Sea-level Rise
Yesterday, The Washington Post reported that there is new advice for vulnerable coastal communities on how to adapt to risings seas: move away from the shore. The Post report...
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Recapping the UN Bonn Climate Talks
Introducing Kiernan Veith! Kiernan was a student delegate from DePaul University to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) COP-15 conference in Cope...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Transcript: Cooperation and Competition: China and the Asia-Pacific"Cooperation and Competition: China and the Asia-Pacific," a roundtable discussion hosted at the CNAS Fifth Annual Conference on June 2, 2011, featured: David E. Sanger, Chief...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Cooperation And Competition: China And The Asia-Pacific"Cooperation and Competition: China and the Asia-Pacific," a roundtable discussion hosted at the CNAS Fifth Annual Conference on June 2, 2011, featured: David E. Sanger, Chief...
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This Weekend’s News: Changing Attitudes about Water
Water scarcity is a global challenge, one that affects nations of all stripes, regardless of economic or political vitality. From water scarcity in Yemen and Iraq, to skirmish...
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This Weekend's News: South China Sea Resources and Beyond
The first thing you need to see if you missed this weekend's news is this Mike Luckovich cartoon. Amazing. You all know by now that tensions between China and Vietnam began r...
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Travel Blog: Vietnam
A few days back I returned from a great research trip to Vietnam as part of our South China Sea project here at CNAS. My interviews and conversations were fabulous and extreme...
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China's Droughts and Floods
Two weeks back I was in Beijing and Shanghai to nerd out on maritime security issues with some great thinkers from the United States, Japan, South Korea, and, obviously, China...
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6 June 1944 and all that
Today is the 67th anniversary of "Goddammit, Rangers, Lead the Way." If you are able, and especially if you are a youngish man thinking of trying your hand at Rangering, watch...
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This Weekend’s News: Still Lost in Translation?
There were several natural security-related news stories this weekend, including this announcement from Germany yesterday that the government will end its nuclear power progra...
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How China, U.S. See Each Other at Sea
Maritime security, especially in the East and South China Sea, remains high on the agenda of China, the United States, Japan and other regional actors. Incidents over the pas...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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China's Port in Pakistan?
Pakistani officials have announced that the Chinese look favorably on taking over the operation of the Arabian Sea port of Gwadar close to the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz...
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Beyond Afghanistan
LTG (Ret.) David Barno, Matt Irvine and I have published a new report (.pdf) with the Center for a New American Security that attempts to identify the components of a successf...
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A Glimmer of Cooperation in the South China Sea
Last night, Christine emailed me this story from the China Daily reporting that China has proposed a tsunami warning system that would link vulnerable countries in the South C...
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The Mekong River: Cooperation or Competition in Southeast Asia?
Christine is in Asia this week to conduct research for the South China Sea project the Natural Security team is working on with some of our CNAS colleagues. One place she’ll b...
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This Weekend’s News: No Trespassing
If I had to pick one news story that stood out to me this weekend, it would have to be this piece from the Sunday Washington Post reporting on the growing domestic backlash to...
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To Secure U.S. Interests in the Arctic, Ratifying UNCLOS is Key
Over the last several years, the United States has elevated the Arctic region as a U.S. national security prerogative. Just days before leaving office in January 2009, Preside...