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Preparing for the Arctic Decade
The Arctic region is simultaneously one of the most high-profile and least understood areas of energy resource development work, diplomatic discussion and environmental concer...
By Peter Gardett
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Finishing the Nation’s Longest War
The headlines earlier this week on Afghanistan mark a rare front page story for a war that has largely gone forgotten in the United States. Negotiations between Secretary of ...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Korea's Growing Security Dilemma
The Korean Peninsula remains the most dangerous flashpoint in East Asia. The decisions made in the Blue House over the next year or two may accelerate a growing security dile...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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School House Rock for Flag Officers: Developing Military Leaders in Austerity
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” –Benjamin Franklin As defense spending continues to decline and the international security environment becomes increasingl...
By Stuart Montgomery
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The 2013 Next Gen Trip to Japan and Taiwan
In September 2013, CNAS assembled a group of participants from its Next Generation National Security Leaders Program to participate in a two-week trip to Taiwan and Japan. The...
By Zachary Hosford
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What a Deal with Iran Needs
Today, CNAS released a paper by my colleague Dr. Colin H. Kahl that provides some important context for the talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries that took place earlier t...
By Jacob Stokes
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NSA Scandal: Simultaneously fascinating and dull
As far as I know, my first contact with the signals intelligence (SIGINT) world came just over a decade ago when I was trying to help some software engineers figure out how to...
By Ben FitzGerald
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To Secure America, Repair Political Fractures at Home
As the government shut down and the nation spiraled toward a near-default on its debt obligations in October, much of the world's attention focused on the economic consequence...
By Richard Fontaine & Robert O. Work
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Introducing “The Agenda”
I am proud to welcome you to “The Agenda,” a new blog from the Center for a New American Security. With so many places to go for information, some might claim that a new nati...
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The Ocean’s Big Data
Just off the coast of Virginia and North Carolina – there are offshore military training areas, proposed wind farms, and ever-increasing commercial shipping traffic – all in t...
By Linda A. Sturgis
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Remembering the Obligation
Recently, as our nation celebrated Veterans Day, we honored veterans past and present for their service and sacrifice. As a millennial, I skimmed Facebook reading the numerou...
By Stuart Montgomery
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Building a Politically Sustainable U.S. Military Presence in Southeast Asia and Australia
On Wednesday, CNAS released a major report authored by our own Dr. Ely Ratner, Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program, entitled “Resident Power: Building a Polit...
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An Indian Summer of SOF
Thanks to Mark Safranski, I read Indian LTG Prakosh Katosh's essay "Optimizing the Potential of Special Forces." It is, Mark implies, a tour-de-horizon of a defense policy tha...
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If Skills Sold: Failed States Edition
A new Guardian op-ed declares that failed states are a "myth" that was "invented" in order to support Western interventions in the global South. While it is plausible that som...
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Some thoughts on blowback
In the aftermath of two men brutally slaughtering Lee Rigby in Woolwih, Jonathan Freedland wrote this column on responding to the motives of murderers: ... It seems we're read...
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Through a Murky PRISM
Edward Snowden is one of history's great actors. But not in the way his admirers (and some detractors) believe, as will be made clear at the end of this post. An earlier draft...
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Cook It Down
I am staying away from Twitter and most social media today, which has become mostly dysfunctional over the NSA stories. As with any other complicated topic dealing with nation...
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How NOT To Argue About Women in Combat
My views on women in close combat once hewed pretty close to those of our great Blogfather Exum. However, after reading Azar Gat's War in Human Civilization (as well as his ot...
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Local Partners, War, and TANSTAAFL
<p>Earlier this year, the Colombian military whacked "32 high-value narco-terrorists" with the help of US Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconaissance (ISR) platforms. ...
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U.S. AID Supports Disaster Risk Reduction, Resiliency and Climate Adapation Engagement in Asia Pacific
The Center for A New American Security is currently hosting a working group series ‘Climate and Security in Asia’ the purpose of which is to explore opportunities to advance U...