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Assassination In Afghanistan Creates A Void
In The New York Times, CNAS Senior Fellow David Barno said that the killing of Mr. Karzai, “threatens to undermine the complex power structures that the U.S. and NATO forces h...
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Command Post Episode Two: "Is Counter-Insurgency Dead?"
Dr. Nora Bensahel and Dave Barno speak in the second installment of Command Post about the state of counterinsurgency....
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CNAS Partners with TIME to Launch Command Post
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce the launch of Command Post, a new video series from CNAS and TIME. The video series will take week-long lo...
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New Ambassador Takes On Egypt
In this piece by The Daily Beast, Anne Patterson, Ambassador to Egypt said, “Our intelligence programs in Pakistan have been a runaway success,” at CNAS' Fifth Annual Conferen...
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Results: Top 10 Defence Blogs 2011
CNAS Senior Fellows Andrew Exum and Thomas Ricks made Defence IQ's Top Ten Defence Blogs for 2011, Abu Muqawama and The Best Defense....
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Energy Concerns Could Make Panetta First Green DOD Chief
Research Associate Will Rogers discusses Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's ability to sustain DOD's charge to incorporate climate change into crucial defense planning....
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In Afghanistan, A Week Of Crises Raises Troubling Questions
In this piece by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, CNAS Senior Fellow Nora Bensahel said, "Attacks like this are not just done because of their military utility but because the...
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Was Obama Low-Balling The Cost Of War?
In this post by Foreign Policy, CNAS Senior Fellow Nora Bensahel said, "I don't think that's an appropriate cost to include because every expenditure of money includes some tr...
By Nora Bensahel
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With Afghan Timetable In Place, Two Senior Officials Are Moving On
CNAS Senior Fellow David Barno says, "It will be tough for the White House to let him depart with no one lined up for his job," In this piece by The National Journal on Lt. Ge...
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Washington Losing Patience With Counterinsurgency In Afghanistan
President John Nagl is featured in this National Journal article about the current state of the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan....
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War-weary US Shifts Focus To Home Front
CNAS Senior Fellow Nora Bensahel says, “Americans are weary. They see the costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a misdirected use of scarce government resources," in th...
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Experts: Drawdown Plans Leave An Ambiguous Military Mission
Deputy Director of Studies Nora Bensahel comments on the ambiguity of President Obama's plans for the Afghanistan troop drawdown. "He failed to offer a strategic rationale for...
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Obama Sets Course For U.S. Exit From Afghanistan
Senior Advisor Lieutenant General David Barno, USA (ret.) stated in this piece by Reuters that, "What I worry about is the message that is going to be taken away by our allies...
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National Security Human Capital
Audio: Admiral Gary Roughead: A Global Navy In A Time Of ChangeOn June 23, 2011, CNAS hosted Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead, USN, for a speech on "A Global Navy in a Time of Change."...
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The Presidential Afghanistan Speech I Was Promised Vs. The Speech I Actually Heard
Deputy Director of Studies Nora Bensahel writes on The Best Defense about the discrepancy between the speech briefing she attended versus what she actually heard in President ...
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GOP Finds Itself At A 'Pivot Point' Over Afghanistan
Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine comments on the GOP's shift in thinking about Afghanistan on NPR: "Obviously, America's fiscal situation and deficit are on t...
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Blood and Oil
Fellow Christine Parthemore comments on the Defense Department's decision to embrace alternative energy in the July/August issue of Sierra Magazine: "DOD is a huge energy cons...
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Obama Sides With Gates Over Petraeus
In The National Journal, CNAS Senior Advisor Dave Barno says, “this problem of untimely diminished capabilities can be overcome by the commanders on the ground, yet opens ques...
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Obama's Afghan Withdrawal Timetable Given Lukewarm Reaction In U.S.
Senior Advisor Lieutenant General David Barno, USA (ret.) comments on the world's reactions to President Obama's speech on President Obama's troop withdrawal decision in The G...
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CNAS Expert Commentary on President Obama's Afghanistan Speech
In his speech tonight, President Obama announced the removal of 10,000 American troops by the end of 2011 and an additional 23,000 troops by September 2012, withdrawing a litt...