For the First Time Since 1977, Oil Imports Begin to Decrease
Troop Levels in Iraq Will Remain Around 140,000 into the Next Presidency
Bush Offers Personal Apology for Koran Shooting

The Army Gets a Skeptics Corps
FBI-ATF Squabbles a Threat to National Security, Argue Senators
Global Warming Not to Blame for Increased Hurricanes

Arab Neighbors Refuse to Send Ambassadors to Iraq, No Debt Forgiveness
Supposed Bin Laden Tape Calls for Continued Fight Against Israel
Venezuela Officials Offered Surface-to-Air Missiles to FARC
13 Paramilitary Warlords Extradited to the US from Colombia
Internal Message in V.A. Suggests Cutting Costs by Limiting PTSD Diagnoses
Desperation Rises in Afghanistan as Hunger Spreads
UN Investigator Reports Foreign Intelligence Agencies [...]

Influence of Iraq War Experience on Selection of Next Generation of Army Generals
Secretary of Defense Recommends Diplomacy with Iran
In Terrorist Exercise, Nuclear Facility Breached

Earlier this week, Susan Crawford, the official overseeing the military commission process at Guantanamo Bay, dismissed charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani–the man suspected of being the so-called “twentieth” hijacker on 9/11. 
It is not that the government believes he is not a threat.  Rather, Crawford determined, apparently, that prosecutors could not make their case without relying on [...]

Defense Secretary Urges Military to Mold Itself to Fight Iraq-Style Wars
There has been some internal debate within the U.S. military about whether it should be restructured to be more effective in Iraq-style conflicts involving counter-insurgency operations and state-building. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates seems to have come down firmly in favor [...]

Firms Seek to Patent Technology to Make Crops Survivable with Climate Change
Department of Energy Reports Wind Can Meet 20% of US Electricity Needs
Commentary: Confronting the Threat of a Nuclear North Korea

Last week, ASP released A New American Arsenal, a bipartisan approach to the challenges of terrorism, energy security, climate change, and proliferation. 
In his opening remarks, ASP’s President and Chair, Senator Gary Hart, reflecting on the change in how we talk about national security since 9/11, said:
Fear is not a basis for national security policy.
He was [...]

From NPR.org:
“I would say that Gen. Petraeus’ promotion is an affirmation of the fact that the counterinsurgency doctrine he wrote and the counterinsurgency strategy that he implemented in Iraq was successful,” says Lt. Col. John Nagl, one of the Army’s top experts on counterinsurgency doctrine.
There is general consensus that conditions in Iraq have changed [...]

Pakistan at Least Three Years Away from Border Security
Goldman Sachs Predicts Oil Prices Rising to $200 Due to Poor Supply Growth
775 Suspects Continue to Await Trials in Guantanamo