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I Might Need You To Kill: Signatures, Patterns, and Alternatives
From what we know from seemingly deliberate leaks on the eve of Obama’s major counterterrorism speech at the National Defense University last week, the most widely criticized ...
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Nature's Not In It: A Special In Memoriam
Running through much common misunderstanding of drones, autonomous weapons ,and modern warfare is a romantic fetish of the "natural" and a demonization of the machine and thos...
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Leaks, Politics, and Power
The Obama Administration's aggressive anti-leak campaign has further polarized an already fractious community of national security commentators. On one side, as Joshua Foust n...
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I Got 200 Million Problems, But Multicollinearity Ain't One
When even David Brooks, Herodotus of the Bobos, is waxing lyrical about data and empiricism you know that data science has become mainstream. Drew Conway is right that the phr...
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Cybersecurity at Nuclear Reactors Should be a Priority
Since the late 1990s, the U.S. Government has designated parts of our infrastructure as “critical,” meaning that attacks on such sectors could cause catastrophic damage. There...
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Photo of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
As a pilot site in the Army's net zero initiative, Fort Hunter Liggett in California is home to a solar microgrid project, pictured above. The first of four phases of the proj...
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The Mattis Book Club
I've always admired USMC general General James Mattis. I first encountered him when I read his scathing takedown of Effects-Based Operations (EBO) in 2008, and soon became fam...
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Arctic Updates
Some recent happenings in the Arctic: The Arctic Council will hold its biennial Ministerial Meeting on May 15. The Council is an intergovernmental body that attempts to addres...
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Israeli Bombs and American Qualms: Assessing Syria
The recent Israeli airstrikes in Syria, through which the Israeli Air Force appears to target weapons shipments bound for Hezbollah, provoked an important debate among those c...
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GAO: Climate Change Puts U.S. Agriculture at High Risk
For the first time, the February 2013 Government Accountability Office High-Risk Series Report lists climate change as a high financial risk factor for the U.S. government. Sp...
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USGS Releases New Estimates for Oil and Gas Reserves in Dakotas and Montana
On April 30, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) released a new assessment for oil and gas reserves in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. The assessment includes n...
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Guest Post: Syria - Remembering Reality
Uditinder Thakur is a foreign affairs analyst, focused primarily on issues related to the broader Middle-East and South Asia. A graduate of American University’s School of Int...
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National Security Advisor Tom Donilon's Speech on Foreign Policy in the Modern Energy Era
Last week, Tom Donilon, National Security Advisor to the President, spoke at the launch of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. In his speech, Donilon discuss...
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Shooting at Tennessee Nuclear Power Plant Highlights Physical Vulnerability of U.S. Electricity System
Security of the nation’s electrical system from cyber attacks has received much attention as of late, but a recent event reminds us of the vulnerabilities in physical security...
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Bringing Structure Back to Irregular Warfare
Structural approaches to international relations have gone somewhat out of fashion in recent years. Burdened with their associations with Cold War geopolitics and “billiard ba...
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Drivers of Instability and Conflict in Africa
Last week, I participated in the CCAPS Shifting Conflict Patterns in Africa: Drivers of Instability and Strategies for Cooperation conference, during which policymakers, pract...
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Happy Earth Day
Photo: Image of Earth taken during the Apollo 11 mission, which brought the first man to the moon in July 1969. Courtesy NASA....
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Photo of the Week
Photo: Two U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Enforcement Specialists provide security at Rowes Wharf in Boston on April 15. Boston-based Coast Guard units have increased their patrols...
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Hill Happenings
Capitol Hill was active in the energy security arena this week. On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and responded ...
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Energy and Water Security Priorities Move Ahead at U.S. Military Installations
On April 5, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that the largest renewable energy project in U.S. military history is expected to begin soon at Fort Bliss, Texas. Once o...