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Recapping Day One at the Naval Energy Forum
The U.S. Navy kicked off its two-day Naval Energy Forum yesterday at the Regan Building, “Seapower Repowered: Energy as a Force Multiplier and Strategic Resource.” Unfortunate...
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The Army is Energized on Energy Security
There was nothing too groundbreaking to report from the Army energy security bloggers roundtable – at least from a national security perspective. Katherine Hammack, the assist...
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The Worst Idea on the Internet Today
It's not quite New Coke, and it's not as ill-advised as signing up to be al-Qaeda's #3, but this is a pretty bad idea. Wrap your head around this one: the executive director o...
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Quote of the Day: War and Taxes Edition
Chris Preble: Cutting defense spending is the only reliable way to stifle Washington's impulse to send U.S. troops on ill-considered missions around the globe. Woah, really? ...
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Stay Tuned: Army Energy Bloggers Roundtable at 2:00
Later today, Erin will relay to you the highlights and her thoughts on the "bloggers roundtable" that DOD Live is hosting at 2pm today. Marking DOD's week o'energy events, the...
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Karachi shrine attack
Another shrine attack. The last major one was in early July in Lahore. This time, in Karachi. Regular readers will have by now heard me talking about the dangers of sectarian ...
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For Governments, How to Balance Economic and Environmental Interests?
How soon should an industry (or even a single factory) be allowed to return to normal operations after a toxic spill? It's a question of balancing economic and environmental i...
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The Trust Deficit: The Impact of Local Perceptions on Policy in Afghanistan
I served as a respondent this afternoon, along with Jack Fairweather and Michael Semple, to an excellent new report written by my friends Erica Gaston and Jonathan Horowitz on...
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On Geoengineering, Learning from the Greeks
“Everything is unprecedented if you don’t read history,” said James Rodger Fleming, author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, at an event...
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Militants Increase Attacks Against NATO Fuel Convoys in Pakistan
Our daily news round up over the past week may seem a bit repetitive. Again this morning, The Washington Post reported an attack on another NATO supply convoy carrying fuel f...
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Own goals in Pakistan on afpak
A few days old, but my most recent article for the guys at afpak is up on their website. "The international community uses force in Pakistan and Afghanistan as if there is no...
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C. J. Chivers 1, Abu Muqawama 0
I have a review of the new C. J. Chivers book, The Gun, in the newest Wilson Quarterly. In brief, I really enjoyed the book and was glad to get the opportunity to review it si...
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Where Did Alex Go? A Natural Security Blog Alum Update
You may often wonder to yourself, what happens to our natural security bloggers when they leave CNAS? In particular, what happened to Alex Stark? As it turns out, she's in Chi...
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Rare Earths and U.S. National Security: What You Need to Know
If you have been following the news the last couple of weeks, you probably watched the showdown unfold between China and Japan in the East China Sea. On September 7, the Japan...
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This Weekend’s News: Baghdad is Abuzz without Electricity
As I was perusing the news this weekend, this headline from the Sunday Washington Post caught my eye: “In Iraq, the Frustrating Sound of Generators.” Since there has been – un...
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On Woodward's Book: Heroes and Villains?
I had a really busy week at work and was only able to finish Bob Woodward's new book this morning. I must say, I really enjoyed it. It is almost impossible to dispassionately ...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A: Michael Horowitz
Regular readers of this blog know how much I enjoyed my friend Mike Horowitz's ground-breaking new book on military innovation and diffusion, a field of inquiry in which I hav...
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Tom Ricks, China’s Minerals Diplomacy and Us
Our fabulous colleague Tom was kind enough to link to the Natural Security Blog from his non-CNAS home at Best Defense. Prompting him was Business Week's article on China's co...
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Murder-Boarding Our New Energy Report: Day 3
In today’s post, I’m going to highlight a tension in the critiques that we as authors had to deal with. Not surprisingly, it was in regard to how to treat climate change in th...
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From the Dept. of Intellectual Dishonesty
Riding the bus en route to work this morning, I read Elliott Abrams' op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the aborted peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The gist ...