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Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Ibrahim al-Naimi addresses the audience during a lecture in The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC on April 30, 2013. Naimi discussed the relationship between oil and economic growth, the impact of recently developed unconventional resources in the United States, and the transformation underway in Saudi Arabia.
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Carter Says Better Buying Power 2.0 Key to Managing Sequestration
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2013 – Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter underscored yesterday the importance of the Better Buying Power 2.0 initiative in the wake of sequestration's effects on the Defense Department. Speaking at the Center for Strategic and Inter from GlobalSecurity.org Read more »
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Pentagon: F-35 program costs fell $4.5 billion last year
WASHINGTON — The total price tag for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program fell $4.5 billion in 2012, according to a new government report. This marks the first time in the F-35s checkered history that estimators have lowered the projected cost of the pr from Air Force Times Read more »
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Times of Trenton Letters to the Editor - May 24
It is with much interest that I read the recent Times article “U.S. Navy launches drone from aircraft carrier” (May 15). “This will be the future of warfare, and it will be a warfare that is a little less risky for humans but maybe a little more effectiv from NJ.com Read more »
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A Sustainable National Security Posture?
[ by Charles Cameron -- and what about climate change, Mike Mazarr? ] . I just opened up Michael Mazarr‘s NDU Strategy Study Group report, . It’s quite far from my usual apocalyptic and more generally religious interests, but he and I once co-led a Y2K s from COMOPS Read more »
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China’s Cyber Attacks Threaten Social Order: Analyst
The U.S. president should tell the leader of China’s communist party that its cyber attacks against Western targets threaten to undermine the Chinese economy and social order, an analyst said. When asked what President Barack Obama should say to Presiden from Defense Tech Read more »
