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This Weekend’s News: A Row over Fish Heightens Tensions in the South China Sea
The Philippines announced on Sunday (Monday in Manila) that it will ignore China’s fishing ban near the disputed Scarborough Shoal that is set to begin on May 16 and run throu...
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High School Days
Focusing on a candidate's high school years strikes me as silly. As silly as focusing on a candidate's old girlfriends. But reading through this slideshow on Mitt Romney's yea...
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Egypt & Israel
I apologize for the light blogging. I returned from a few days at Ft. Leavenworth -- education, not incarceration -- this morning and am in the middle of the final edits on a ...
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China’s Foray into Deep-Water Drilling Could Raise Stakes in South China Sea
On Monday, Chinese media reported that China’s first deep-water drilling rig (developed domestically by the state-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation) will begin opera...
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Read This Now: The New American Oil Boom – Implications for Energy Security
A new report from Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) debunks the myth about America’s oil boom leading to energy independence. The SAFE study, The New American Oil Boom: ...
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This Weekend’s News: A Nuclear-Free Japan
Japanese officials shutdown the last of 50 nuclear reactors late Saturday evening, taking the country off of nuclear power for the first time in more than four decades. Most o...
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Syria: Interests, Options, Futures
My column for World Politics Review this week is on the conflict in Syria. I first explore the concerns of the Obama Administration before discussing the difficulty we analyst...
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An Introduction to Climate and Security
It is always good to be reminded from time to time about why the U.S. national security establishment has a stake in how climate change manifests itself today and in the futur...
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Guns vs. Scholarships
Tom Friedman, today: [The United States] gave Egypt’s military $1.3 billion worth of tanks and fighter jets, and it gave Lebanese public-school students a $13.5 million merit-...
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Climate Change & National Security: The Arctic as a Bellwether
Dr. Jay Gulledge is a Senior Scientist and Director of the Science and Impacts Program at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the ...
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Public Discourse on Counterterrorism Policy and Strategy One Year After AC1
On my way back from New York last night, I had the misfortune to catch a few minutes of CNN -- allegedly America's most serious cable news network -- while waiting around Penn...
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How Syria Might End: A Reading List
I am teaching a class today in how civil wars and insurgencies end. I am also, meanwhile, writing my column for World Politics Review this week on the conflict in Syria. The f...
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This Weekend’s News: Arctic War Game Highlights Challenges for U.S. Navy
The U.S. Navy does not have the assets it needs to conduct long-term Arctic maritime operations and will have to increasingly rely on the U.S. Coast Guard or international par...
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Les Enfants Plaza: On the WHCD
It's Sunday evening, and I need to get something off my chest that has been bothering me all weekend. The annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner is my least fav...
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On Bahrain
This week's column in World Politics Review focuses on Bahrain. I am no specialist on the tiny island kingdom, but Bahrain is interesting to me as a regional specialist becaus...
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Security at Sea: The Case for Ratifying the Law of the Sea Convention
Later this morning CNAS will release a new policy brief that explores the national security and foreign policy benefits of ratifying the Law of the Sea Convention. Download S...
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Satellites and Security Series: Enhancing Tsunami Detection and Response
One of the research areas that we at CNAS have been exploring for the last several years is how the United States can make better use of satellites to enhance its understandin...
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This Weekend’s News: The South China Sea Dispute
The South China Sea dispute is once again in the headlines, with notable developments that are raising some concerns about increased tensions in the region. On Saturday, Reute...
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Combat and Camera Phones
I have an op-ed on Bloomberg View on the way in which the profusion of camera phones and other new-ish technology has caught the U.S. military off-guard. The proliferation of...
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