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From Benghazi to Blackwater
Academi (formerly Blackwater) and other military contractors received an early Christmas present on the 20th: a windfall in future profits from diplomatic security: [B]oth th...
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Guest Post: The Shape of Al Shabaab’s Post-Kismayo Attacks
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a Ph.D. candidate in world politics at the Catholic University of America. He is t...
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Revitalizing the Partnership: The United States and Iraq A Year After Withdrawal
My CNAS colleagues Melissa Dalton and Nora Bensahel published a policy brief recently assessing the state of U.S. policy toward Iraq a year after U.S. military forces complete...
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Western Hemisphere Happenings: Cuba’s Continued Quest for Offshore Oil
Russia’s Zarubezhneft oil company has moved to shallower waters to continue drilling exploratory oil wells off Cuba’s coast, according to a report in the Washington Post on Sa...
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Read This Now: Global Trends 2030
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) published its Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds on Monday, a quadrennial analysis of the major trends shaping the global security ...
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The Silence and the Drones
The controversy of the American targeted-killing program, and especially the resurgence of covert paramilitary and military action, has inspired a great deal of concern about ...
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A Sea Change in Natural Gas Trade Raises Foreign Policy Questions
International trade in natural gas has been turned on its head. In 2005, the United States was on track to import nearly 20 percent of its natural gas by 2020. That forecast l...
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India’s South China Sea Gambit Redux
India’s interest in the South China Sea is getting more attention. Last year, The Times of India reported that India’s offshore Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Videsh w...
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Data Show Global Carbon Emissions Hit Record High in 2011
New climate data published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Sundayshow that global carbon emissions hit a record high in 2011 and could increase in 2012 without a conce...
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Generalship and its Discontents
Having plowed through Tom Ricks' book on generals, I expected to write a review here. Unfortunately, I realized that I lack the background in the history of American military ...
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The State of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
Last week the Department of Energy (DOE) announced its decision to award the first company to receive government funding in support of commercializing Small Modular Reactors (...
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Beijing Pushes the Diplomatic Envelop on South China Sea Dispute
Territorial claims over the South China Sea took an interesting turn last week. According to a report from Reuters, China’s new passports have raised the eyebrows of several...
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Gaza: Winners and Losers?
The Internet is abuzz with theorizing about who won and lost the short Israel-Hamas duel in Gaza. Unfortunately, the standards by which victory and defeat is tallied are fairl...
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Rage Against the Machines
Human Rights Watch recently put out a report demanding a ban on fully autonomous weapons system and more scrutiny, as well as additional legal controls, to regulate the develo...
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CIA Shutters Climate Center, But Continues its Work
Annie Snider of Greenwire confirmed on Monday that after more than three years the CIA has closed its Center for Climate Change and National Security, the office responsible f...
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World is on a Path to 4 degree Celsius Warming, World Bank Warns
On Sunday, the World Bank released a study – Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4⁰C Warmer World Must Be Avoided – that says the world is on a path to increase the average global tempe...
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Tool Academy: Of Political and Military Solutions
In tomorrow's New York Times Sunday Review, Lucian Truscott IV blasts General David Petraeus for failing to "conquer" Iraq and Afghanistan. Truscott unfavorably compares Petra...
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Hark! The American Energy Revolution…and What to Watch For
The International Energy Agency (IEA) published its new World Energy Outlook on Monday, projecting the United States to become the world’s largest oil producer as early as 202...
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Does a drafted public make better policy?
The relationship of citizen to soldier within the United States is a complicated one. For most of American history, the brunt of federal military power came from volunteers. E...
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The Great War and the Complexity of Military Failure
Military failure is always hard to discuss rationally. Whether we are considering a black mark on an otherwise victorious strategy or yet another disgrace in a lost war, milit...