The Center for a New American Security will hold its annual conference, Shaping the Agenda: American Security in the 21st Century, this Thursday in downtown Washington, DC. Of course we’ll be there to bring you all the defense policy goodness from this gathering of national security all-stars. Today, CNAS released nine white papers covering some of the topics to be discussed at the conference:
Contracting in Conflicts: The Path to Reform
By Richard Fontaine and John Nagl with a foreword by Allison Stanger
Restraint: Recalibrating American Strategy
By Patrick Cronin
Rhetoric and Reality: Countering Terrorism in the Age of Obama
By Marc Lynch
Crafting a Strategic Vision: A New Era of U.S.-Indonesia Relations
By Abraham Denmark with Rizal Sukma and Christine Parthemore
Sustaining Security: How Natural Resources Influence National Security
By Christine Parthemore with Will Rogers
To Serve the Nation: U.S. Special Operations Forces in an Era of Persistent Conflict
By Michele L. Malvesti
America’s Extended Hand: Assessing the Obama Administration’s Global Engagement Strategy
By Kristin Lord and Marc Lynch
Leverage: Designing a Political Campaign for Afghanistan
by Andrew Exum
Broadening Horizons: Climate Change and the U.S. Armed Forces
By Christine Parthemore, Commander Herb Carmen, USN, and Will Rogers
– Greg Grant
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Sheesh. Just because they dump their 'stuff' on you doesn't mean you have to dump it on us. ;-)
BTW: The CNAS name is a dead givaway to their agenda. It has that same 'misdirection' face as PRC, DPRK, and GDR, while offering the 'new and improved' lemon-scented angle ala "The New School" and " Project for the New American Century". Stamp them as 'Progressive = Liberal' and roundfile accordingly. Think 'Brookings' w/o the facade of intellectual rigor.
Next please…
Agreed. These are the types that put making gays a special class before defense matters.
Didn't global warming get debunked? Why are we still talking about it?
It is advantageous for politicians and politically connected scientests to believe in man-caused global warming, a/k/a climate change. It offers a good excuse for governmental control of almost everything.
No, it didn't get debunked.
Kim is correct,
Only wild claims of model-driven runaway Anthropogenic Global Warming has been 'debunked'.
Langmuir's Laws of Pathological Science tells us that the bitter-clingers will still be struggling with their false god for a while yet, but if you avoid the guys in the gunny sack with the carboard 'end is near' sign on the street corner, you won't have to deal with them