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Bonn Talks the Next Step in the Long Road to Copenhagen
From August 10 – 14, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex Parties under the Kyoto Protocol and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action un...
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Reading Old Magazines: “Our Future Dependence on Foreign Minerals”
We turn to critical minerals for this week’s Reading Old Magazines, with the May 1952 article “Our Future Dependence on Foreign Minerals” by Dr. Alan M. Bateman (pdf), then a ...
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Space + Mining = Sci Fi Natural Security
Today’s natural security movie is Moon, from director Duncan Jones. The natural security element of the movie lies only in its brief opening, which establishes the premise tha...
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At Climate Change Hearing, Skirting the Nuclear Proliferation Issue
“Surely it has to frustrate you coming from where you come from that this country is not embarking on a massive project and working with China and India to do the same – nucle...
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Rare Earths and the Challenge for American Energy Security
“They are the backbone of the Information Age and, potentially, the clean energy future. They are in iPods, Blackberrys, and plasma TVs. They are powerful and compact; they a...
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Catching up...
...with some weekend reading: --The Marines try to do some counterinsurgency in Helmand, but still without any help from Afghan forces. I'm increasingly pessimistic about Afg...
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What's going on in Xinjiang?
This story was the top above-the-fold headline in today's Washington Post, but I still feel like the goings-on in western China are not being given much attention (especially ...
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Reading Old Magazines: Scarcity and Strategy
This week’s installment of “Reading Old Magazines” takes us to January 1978, with a Foreign Affairs piece called “Scarcity and Strategy” by Geoffrey Kemp. First, imagine a tim...
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For DOD, Robots Tomorrow Requires New Strategy Today
Whether it’s the next generation of the PackBot, MedBot or Predator drone, there is little doubt that military robotics will grow exponentially over the next several decades a...
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Traditional Propaganda
There is something disturbingly reassuring in watching real honest-to-goodness traditional propaganda. It gives you a false sense of superiority, in a sort of twisted way, to ...
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This Element's a Time Bomb
While we usually talk about critical minerals that are important to the modern economy and for uses in weapons systems and high-tech gear, the June 2009 Scientific American fe...
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CNAS Climate Change War Game Featured in ABC News Earth 2100 Documentary
Washington, DC, June 2, 2009 - The Center for a New American Security's (CNAS) Clout and Climate Change War Game was featured in the ABC News primetime documentary Earth 2100...
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Top Defense Experts Join CNAS Board of Directors
Washington, D.C., June 1, 2009 - The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that five exemplary individuals with extensive experience in national sec...
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Peter Schwartz
Peter Schwartz is an internationally renowned futurist and business strategist, specializing in scenario planning and working with corporations, governments, and institutions ...
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The Impact of China’s Economic and Security Interests in Continental Asia on the United States
This CNAS Congressional Testimony contains Fellow Abraham Denmark's statement on the strategic and geopolitical implications of China’s engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan ...
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Michael J. Zak
Mike Zak spent 33 years as a high-technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a Partner, Emeritus, at CRV, located in Boston and Silicon Valley, where he focused on ...
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Asia-Pacific Expert Abraham Denmark Joins CNAS as Fellow
WASHINGTON, DC, May 12, 2009 - The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Abraham M. Denmark has joined CNAS as a Fellow. Denmark, who brings y...
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Mr. Ignatius, what do they really want??
Like a tingly spider sense behind his ears, Londonstani felt there was something amiss in the time-space continuum that would only be resolved by his posting on the AM blog to...
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Yellow Shirts vs. Red Shirts
The ASEAN Summit in Bangkok has been shut down with mass protests and clashes between pro-government groups, supporters of the previous government, and the military/police for...
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On the original unconventional warfare...
I don't know why I bother reading Charles Krauthammer's columns on issues relating to international security. They are always filled with ridiculous lines such as:Having thus ...