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Murder-Boarding Our New Energy Report: Day 2
We’ll begin today with a critique of our new energy report that a guest raised to me at the dinner discussion on DOD energy that CNAS held on Monday night. In short, this pers...
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Murder-Boarding Our New Energy Report: Day 1
As promised yesterday, today and through the week I’m going to highlight some of the comments and critiques we received from CNAS and non-CNAS reviewers of our new report, “Fu...
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On Woodward's Book: A (Very Minor) Clarification
I arrived back in the office this morning to discover a copy of Bob Woodward's new book on my desk with the rest of the mail. The mail also included two other books I ordered ...
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This Weekend’s News: We Prepared for the Release of Our New DOD Fuels Report
For the post today we’re taking a brief hiatus from assessing the weekend’s natural security news for you. Will collected some news stories for you and has posted them as we d...
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On Calling Balls and Strikes
"Riddle me this," a particularly careful student of civil-military relations wrote to me this morning: How many of the people who think we have a serious civil-military probl...
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In Kyrgyzstan, a New Challenge to Getting Fuel into Afghanistan
Yesterday, coverage from The Washington Post and The New York Times on the soon-to-be-released Obama’ s Wars, Bob Woodward’s latest opus, generated a media storm by reporting ...
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An Indispensable Force: Investing in America's National Guard and Reserves – and Natural Security
On Monday, CNAS Commander-in-Chief John Nagl and my officemate Travis “Charlie” Sharp released their thought-provoking report on the state of the National Guard and Reserves, ...
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Read This Now: SciAm Edition
I almost forgot to flag this for you all. You need to check out the current (soon to be last month's) edition of Scientific American for this: "How Much Is Left? The Limits of...
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For China and Japan, a Row over Resources?
Tensions are on the rise in the East China Sea, with recent events embroiling states with long-standing mistrust: China and Japan. Recall that back in July we reported here on...
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This Weekend’s News: Mind the Gap
Here’s a story near and dear to our hearts at the Natural Security blog: an important report from The Washington Post this weekend shed light on the decline in U.S. Earth-moni...
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The Next War: Hizballah vs. Israel
Jeff White, a 35-year veteran of the Defense Intelligence Agency and one of the smartest guys I know, has a disturbing new report on what the next war between Israel and Hizba...
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Join Us on The Hill Next Wednesday!
Hey Readers, If you work within the natural resources and national security/foreign policy world, you may want to join us on the Hill next Wednesday at noon for a lunch discus...
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CRS: Pakistan’s Resource Issues = Concerning
A third pat on Congressional Research Service’s back this week, now for its August 3rd “Security and the Environment in Pakistan.” For full disclosure, I also have a pending a...
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CRS Reports on Geoengineering
Continuing its streak of natural security work this summer, on August 16th the Congressional Research Service issued a report titled “Geoengineering: Governance and Technology...
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Gian Gentile's Reading List
I am off to Indiana today to give a talk on the conflict in Afghanistan, but last night, I met counterinsurgency non-enthusiast Gian Gentile for a few rounds of beer at Kramer...
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When the Only Reasonably Easy Thing to Achieve in Afghanistan is Getting Yourself Killed
Andrew Sullivan highlights the crux of Justin Logan's defense of the Afghanistan Study Group: I cannot find evidence that either Foust or Exum recognizes strategic thought. Bo...
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Greatest Nigerian Internet Scam Ever?
Mitch reports that all that time he's been spending in Gaza is finally paying off. Big time. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Mrs. Suha Tawil Arafat <[email protected]&...
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Clinton in Sharm el Sheik*
The Secretary of State continues in her attempts to push the ball forward on the Middle East Peace Process. I generally avoid issues relating to Israel and the Palestinians li...
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CRS on REEs
This past July, while we weren’t looking, Congressional Research Service issued a report called “Rare Earth Elements: The Global Supply Chain” (pdf warning). I thought we’d us...
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On Corruption (And Admitting When You're Wrong)
I know think tank researchers, like scholars in academia, are not supposed to admit when they have been wrong about something. But as regular readers of this blog know, I am n...