Last month, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus committed to making the US Navy a “green fleet” – by 2020, 50% of all energy consumed by the USN will be supplied by renewable energy sources. To that end the Navy will expand its use of hybrid vehicles, solar and wind, and perhaps even pave the way for [...]

At the end of October, Iraq began lobbying the IAEA and UN to rebuild at least one of the nuclear reactors destroyed during the first Gulf War. This development prompted Foreign Policy to add Iraq to their ongoing list of “The Future Nuclear Powers You Should Be Worried About” (note:  the article is about future [...]

At a recent event at the University of Central Florida, Dr. James Carafano argued that global political violence was declining.
Carafano, a historian, said that the idea of looking forward and accurately predicting the effects of climate change is unrealistic. The issues of climate change and environmental impact are not new, he said. When [...]

The New York Times reported yesterday that Ahmed Karzai, a suspected drug trafficker and the brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai, has received regular payments from the CIA for the last eight years.  To see this on the front page of the New York Times is disappointing and disturbing.
It is certainly not news that the [...]

Climate change will have devastating costs for the global economy and for our way of life more generally. In a recent post on the Washington Post’s Planet Panel, ASP Senior Fellow Dr. Bernard Finel explains why immediate action to prevent climate change is necessary:
Opponents of climate change legislation may gain politically in the short-run, but in [...]

Check out Dr. Evelyn Farkas’ first-hand account of the recent Presidential elections in Afghanistan from Foreign Policy. As an election observer, she describes exactly how blatant fraud destroyed the legitimacy of the election and what that means for American strategy in the region:
By now, everyone knows the outcome of August’s vote: a competently administered election [...]