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Happy Presidents' Day
Happy Presidents' Day from the Natural Security Blog. We will be taking today off, but we look forward to returning to our regular Natural Security business tomorrow. Photo: M...
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Relevant to Policy?
Are we in a 1914 scenario in East Asia? How often do guerrillas succeed? Did counterterrorism law erode national sovereignty? These are just a few of the important questions t...
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Energy, Security and Cooperation in the South China Sea
Yesterday, CNAS published a new Flashpoints Bulletin that examines the influence global energy trends have in shaping oil and gas development in the South China Sea, and, cons...
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Landsat Satellite Successfully Launched; Continues Earth Monitoring Mission
NASA successfully launched its new Landsat satellite on Monday, ensuring that the U.S. government will continue its ability to keep a close eye on environmental change from sp...
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Redemptive Violence and the Los Angeles Manhunt
Renegade former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer Christopher Dorner believes himself wronged by his superiors. In his manifesto, he repeatedly emphasizes that he e...
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Much Ado about Nothing: Allaying Concerns about China's Potential Control of Greenland's Rare Earths
On Monday, Quartz published a story about China’s growing foothold in Greenland and the mounting concerns about its quest to produce the semi-autonomous island’s rare earth me...
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Hill Happenings: Assessing North America's Energy Potential
Congress is continuing to give increasing attention to the changing energy landscape. This morning at 10 a.m., the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on “...
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Legislation would expand U.S. LNG Exports to Strategic Partners
There was quite a bit of attention on the Hill yesterday as Senator Chuck Hagel, the president’s nominee to succeed Leon Panetta as defense secretary, met with the Senate Arme...
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Serval, Burden-Sharing, and Limited Intervention
Thus far, the intervention in Mali seems, at least initially, a banner standard for the practice, insofar as Washington is concerned. A coalition of African and European force...
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North America will continue to Lead Shale Production – for Now
North America’s monopoly over shale gas and tight oil production won’t last forever. But there’s good reason to believe that the rest of the world will be laggards for awhile....
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Read These Now: Energy & Climate Recommendations for the Second Term
As President Obama begins his second term, there is no shortage of recommendations for how he should prioritize and shape his agenda moving forward. Two new publications from ...
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Great Raids and Great Disasters
One of the most useful aspects of Zero Dark Thirty is its dogged focus on the mundane and numerous things that underpin great raids. There are the countless hours of intellige...
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Inauguration Day 2013
President Barack Obama officially began his second term yesterday when he took the oath of office in the White House Blue Room. This morning, shortly before noon, he will take...
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The Arctic Age that Wasn’t?
In a World Politics Review article published last Friday, I wrote that despite record low ice melt last year, the Arctic’s harsh environment is not giving way to commercial gr...
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Third National Climate Assessment Unequivocal about Climate Change
“Evidence for climate change abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans,” reads a draft of the Third National Climate Assessment, published for public...
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Old Hundred and the American Way of Wartime Law
Thanks to a coincidence of film release debates, Lincoln and Django Unchained have prompted no small outpouring of commentary on the relationship between law, race, and violen...
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Top U.S. Security and Foreign Policy Trends to Track in 2013
Natural resource and environmental issues have gained more attention from the national security and foreign policy communities in recent years– from concerns related to the U....
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The Market for Covert Action
Here is another way of understanding some of the common themes that Dan Trombly and I have written about during our brief time blogging on Abu Muquwama: For the purpose of ar...
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The Once and Future CIA
Intelligence reform is once again in the air, and this time the bogeyman is the "militarization" of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As Mark Safranski notes, there is so...
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Top Five International Trends to Track in 2013
Natural resource trends topped international headlines in 2012 – from illicit resource trade in Afghanistan to energy competition in the South China Sea. Which ones should rea...