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The Taliban, Special Operations, and Strategy
One of the preemiment problems with the way that guerrilla warfare is discussed is the almost commonplace idea that it is a fundamentally different type of war, requiring fund...
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Sentries in the Sky: Using Space Technologies for Disaster Response
Yesterday, CNAS released a new policy brief exploring how the United States can make better use of space technologies to improve disaster warning and response. Sentries in the...
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Protecting Boots on the Base
When over a dozen insurgents attacked Camp Bastion’s airfield with explosive vests, automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and possibly truck-borne mortars, they inflict...
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Benghazi and Diplomacy's Hard Power
When Egyptian rioters stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, raising the black banners (and bizarrely enough, some were hiding behind Guy Fawkes’s now ubiquitous visage), the news...
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How to Neutralize Energy Competition in the South China Sea
This post originally appeared on the Choke Points blog at Consumer Energy Report.com on September 11, 2012. During her visit to the Asia Pacific last week, Secretary of State ...
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Counterterrorism's Center of Gravity Problem
Reading John Arquilla's latest Foreign Policy piece makes, me, as I am wont to, think about dead Prussians. Arquilla takes a look at the battle for Obama's "strategic soul" an...
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A Rocky Road to Reaping the Benefits of Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth
The New York Times reported on Sunday that Afghanistan’s mineral wealth could be contributing to instability in some parts of the country, particularly areas beyond Kabul’s co...
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Sec. Clinton Urges Countries to "Literally Calm the Water" in South China Sea
All eyes are on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her visit to the Asia Pacific this week. On Tuesday, Secretary Clinton met with officials of the Association of S...
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Twilight of the Carriers?
Robert Haddick has a provocative post atForeign Policy suggesting that the rise of strategic air power and anti-ship weaponry might render carriers obsolete, and cause major i...
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Happy Labor Day!
Happy Labor Day everyone! We are taking a brief holiday at the Natural Security blog and wish you all a restful day before the beginning of a busy fall. ...
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Social Media and the Policy Researcher
This will be my last post on this blog for at least a year. I am about to start a fellowship program with the Council on Foreign Relations that will place me in the U.S. gover...
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Setting the Record Straight on Obama and Iraq
A few months ago, it was still fashionable on the American Right to blame President Obama for withdrawing all U.S. troops from Iraq and thus squandering any residual U.S. leve...
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Monopoly in Farce: Militias and State-Building
State formation and regime consolidation, as any astute reader of Charles Tilly could tell you, is an ugly business. Just as ugly, though, can be what its absence brings. Sinc...
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In Memoriam: Astronaut Neil Armstrong
“By the yardstick of history, Neil Armstrong was among the most accomplished men ever to walk on the planet that he looked upon from afar one magical week in July 1969.” The A...
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Monday Morning Mini-Rants
If I wrote a blog post each time something I read annoyed me, I would obviously blog more frequently. Two things that I have noticed over the past few days, though, deserve es...
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Green-on-Blue
Not to be confused with the Miles Davis song or dearly departed Philly eatery, green-on-blue violence is confounding U.S. commanders in Afghanistan and -- together with the 2,...
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In East China Sea, Tensions Run Deep
The New York Times published a report this morning differentiating between the underlying issues driving competition in the East and South China Seas. As readers of this blog ...
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The Price of Great Journalism
I just subscribed to the New York Times. Just now. My actions were entirely prompted by this article and video by C.J. "Chris" Chivers and the accompanying photographs by Brya...
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U.S. Officials Put Pressure on Iraqi Bank with Illicit Ties to Iran
In July, the Obama administration barred Iraq’s Elaf Islamic Bank from doing business with the U.S. banking system due to alleged ties to illegal financial transactions with I...
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Firepower and Dispersal
Andrew Davies at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute recently highlighted a fascinating work taking the long view of weapons technology development. The argument essenti...