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April 22, 2008: The Washington Post references CNA study in front-page article "Military Waivers for Ex-Convicts Increase"
April 21, 2008: In an article titled "Does Global Warming Compromise National Security?" Time.com cites CNA's report, National Security and the Threat of Climate Change
April 2008: Dr. Carter Malkasian director of CNA's Center on Stability and Development co-edits Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare, reviewed in the Wall Street Journal
April 2008: Semper Fi, the magazine of the Marine Corps League, cites the CNA Resource and Analysis Division's study, Black and Hispanic Marines: Their Ascension, Representation, Success and Retention in the Corps
April 6, 2008: Navy Times article, "China's Plan For Taiwan Stresses Subs, Missiles" quotes Michael A. McDevitt, Vice President and Director, of CNA's Center for Strategic Studies
April 1, 2008: CNA Senior Project Director, Ellen B. Mandinach, Ph.D., co-edits Data-Driven School Improvement: Linking Data and Learning a landmark book on the use of data to improve education based on a three-year NSF-sponsored study
March 2008: Two publications edited by CNA's Dr. Sarah Friedman — a special double issue of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology Vol. 28, Issues 5-6 (Elsevier), and Blueprints for Thinking now in paperback (Cambridge University Press) — are available for purchase from publishers
March 5, 2008: James Stewart, Senior Fellow for Law Enforcement Domestic Safety at CNA, served as a member of the panel of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, which has released its report Feasibility, Accuracy and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database. The report received news coverage by Reuters, San Diego's Union-Tribune, NPR, and The Washington Times
March 2008: Gary Christle, Research Analyst with CNA's Resource Analysis Division, has his article "The Abiding Cultural Problem" published in the March-April issue of Defense AT&L magazine
February 13, 2008: In an article titled "The New Space Race: China vs. US" Time.com quotes Dean Cheng, China Specialist with CNA
February 2008: CNA analyst Christopher Duquette's study on the impact of money on elections is published in Economics Bulletin
February 13, 2008: Dean Cheng, China Specialist with CNA's Project Asia, is interviewed in Orlando Sentinel article "Experts see spying case at NASA as wake-up call"
February 2008: The Center for Strategic Studies' Project Iran releases summary of conference "Iran's Strategic Interests in the Middle East"
February 7, 2008: The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that senior Navy leaders are reviewing a recently completed CNA study that looks at several options for building nuclear ships
January 2008: An article in the January 2008 edition of the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings magazine cites CNA's 2006 study examining river-based operations and how the Navy's resources would be affected if it created a permanent riverine force
January 17, 2008: The 2008 version of CNA's Retirement Choice Calculator, which provides information that allows for informed retirement planning by men and women in the military services, is available for online use
January 11, 2008: The San Francisco Chronicle publishes "Iran's dangerous move in the Persian Gulf" by CNA Iran Specialist, Alireza Nader
January 2, 2008: CNA General Counsel, Sherri Goodman, and MAB member Gen. Paul Kern, USA (Ret.), respond to issues raised in National Interest magazine's "What Resource Wars?" saying the author "underestimates the risks climate change poses to global stability and to our national security…"
December 12, 2007: Associated Press cites National Security and the Threat of Climate Change report in article on the threat global warming poses to military installations
December 12, 2007: The New Jersey Star-Ledger features op-ed, "Global warming is a threat to peace" by CNA Military Advisory Board members, Admiral Joseph Preuher (Ret.) and Vice Admiral Richard Truly (Ret.)
December 9, 2007: The New York Times Magazine "7th Annual Year In Ideas" issue highlights recommendations from CNA's report National Security and the Threat of Climate Change
December 7, 2007: UPI cites CNA's report National Security and the Threat of Climate Change in story headlined "Bill tells DoD to count warming as threat"
December 2, 2007: ABC's World News Tonight features CNA's National Security and the Threat of Climate Change in report "Global Warming: Humanity's Meltdown?"
November 29, 2007: William Samii, analyst with CNA's Project Iran, is quoted in CNN.com article "Iran's Revolutionary Guards patrol Persian Gulf, U.S. says"
November 2007: CNA Resource Analysis Division economist, Keith Brown, examines the impact of subscriber levels on the success of cable networks in his article "How many viewers does a cable network need? A survival analysis of cable networks" appearing in the November issue of Applied Economics
October 31, 2007: The CNA report, Black and Hispanic Marines: Their Accession, Representation, Success, and Retention in the Corps, prepared by CNA's Resource Analysis Division, is released. Study finds the retention rate of African American enlistees is among Corps' highest
October 29, 2007: The Honolulu Advertiser features CNA report in article headlined "More black recruits join Marines"
October 24, 2007: Dean Cheng, specialist in Chinese security affairs with CNA's Project Asia, is interviewed for the news story "China's First Lunar Probe Launches into Orbit" on NPR's All Things Considered
October 16, 2007: CNA's Final Report for the Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission: Compensation, Survey Results, and Selected Topics released
October 16, 2007: Kenneth J. Krieg, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, and Admiral John B. Nathman, former Commander of the Navy's U.S. Fleet Forces Command, join CNA as senior fellows
October 2007: CNA's Cost Implications of a Unified Medical Command is called "well-documented and reasoned" in the GAO's Report to Congressional Committees on Defense Health Care
October 1, 2007: "Climate Change and Security," an Op-Ed authored by Sherri Goodman, CNA General Counsel and Executive Director of CNA's Military Advisory Board, appears in Defense News
October 2007: CNA's Center for Strategic Studies' Mike McDevitt, David Finkelstein, and Ken Allen have each contributed a chapter to a new book from the Army War College and the National Bureau of Asian Research entitled, Right Sizing the People's Liberation Army: Exploring the Contours of China's Military
October 2007: CNA analyst Brent Boning's study "Opportunity Counts: Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives" is published in the Journal of Labor Economics
September 2007: The REL Appalachia report, Assessing the likelihood that Virginia schools will meet the proficiency goals of the No Child Left Behind Act, prepared by CNA's Louis Jacobson, is available on line
September 2007: The report on the conference, "The Struggle for Unity and Authority in Islam: Reviving the Caliphate?", sponsored by CNA's Center for Strategic Studies and Wilton Park Conferences is available on line. The conference, which convened scholars and practitioners from across the Muslim world, considered modern-day views on re-establishing the Islamic form of government that unites political and religious leadership under a single head of state—the Caliph.
September 2007: CNA's Sarah Friedman has edited a special issue of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, a study comprising ten research reports of secondary data analysis of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD)
September 27, 2007: General Gordon R. Sullivan, USA (Ret.), Chairman of the Military Advisory Board to The CNA Corporation report National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, testifies before Congress that climate change is a "significant threat to our national security"
September 2007: Maryanne Kivlehan-Wise, with CNA's Project Asia, examines how state-media relations have changed under China's new political, economic, and social forces in her work entitled "China's Media in an Age of Capitalist Transition"; a chapter in a new edited volume of China's Emergent Political Economy: Capitalism in the Dragon's Lair (Routledge, 2007)
September 5, 2007: CNA expert on Chinese security issues, Dean Cheng, quoted in the Financial Times' story, "US concedes danger of cyber-attack"
September 4, 2007: William Samii, Iran analyst with CNA, interviewed for USA Today article, "Iranian shakeup a setback for hardline leader"
August 20, 2007: Bill Samii, with CNAC's Project Iran, quoted in UPI story, "Analysis: Iran's Drug Problems Expanding"
July 2007: The National Bureau of Asian Research journal, Asia Policy (Number 4, July 2007), has published a paper by Dave Finkelstein, Director of CNAC's Project Asia and its China Studies Center, entitled "China's National Military Strategy: An Overview of the Military Strategic Guidelines." The paper is a condensed version of a much larger study by the same name.
June 29, 2007: Richard Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy and a senior fellow at CNAC, presented a brief June 29 at CNAC on DoD roles in the event of domestic aerosol anthrax attacks. In a related paper published by the Center for a New American Security, a new Washington think tank, Danzig and two co-authors discuss citizens' roles in similar scenarios
June 22, 2007: In an editorial titled "Global Insecurity: Conflicts heat up" the Seattle Post-Intelligencer cites CNAC's Military Advisory Board report: National Security and the Threat of Climate Change
June 20, 2007: CNAC's General Counsel, Sherri Goodman, appears on CNN's Situation Room to discuss national security and the threats posed by climate change
Summer 2007: An article by Carter Malkasian, Director of CNAC's Center for Stability and Development, proposes an Iraq strategy that relies on Sunni militias and local police units. The piece appears in the summer edition of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas (http://www.democracyjournal.org/)
Spring 2007: CNAC's Christopher Duquette has had his paper, "One-Person, One-Vote and the Constitutionality of the Winner-Take-All Allocation of Electoral College Votes" published in the spring issue of the Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy
Spring 2007: CNA analyst Whitney Raas's article, which assesses whether Israel is capable of using military force to stop Iranian nuclear proliferation, has been published in International Security. The piece, co-authored with Austin Long, stems from Raas's graduate work at MIT, where she recently finished a nuclear engineering PhD. Raas is currently writing a chapter for an upcoming book on nonproliferation from the Center for Strategic and International Studies
June 2007: CNA analyst Edward Michlovich is awarded the Military Operations Research Society's David Rist Prize for his work, "Countering Radio-Controlled Improvised Electronic Devices" assessing the effectiveness of certain counter-IED systems in the Iraqi theater. His work, presented to then-Commander of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. John Abizaid, in early 2005 results in significant changes in operations in Iraq
June 6, 2007: Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA 14), Chair of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management, discusses CNAC's National Security and the Threat of Climate Change report in San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, "Intelligence needed on climate change"
May 31, 2007: General Gordon Sullivan (USA, ret.), Chairman of CNAC's Military Advisory Board on National Security and Climate Change, welcomes White House climate change initiative; reminds G-8 nations to consider security threats posed by global climate change
May 30, 2007: Analyst Amanda Kraus of CNA's Resource Analysis Division co-authors a chapter, "Education and Taiwan's Changing Employment and Earnings Structure," for the book The Labour Market and Economic Development of Taiwan, edited by Joseph S. Lee (Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2007)
May 2007: Michael McDevitt, director of CNAC's Center for Strategic Studies, and CNAC research analyst Peter Swartz have contributed chapters to China's Future Nuclear Submarine Force (China Maritime Studies Institute and Naval Institute Press, 2007). McDevitt's chapter, "Sea Denial with Chinese Characteristics," and Swartz's chapter, "Meeting the Chinese Naval Challenge: Lessons from the 1980s," are based on papers they delivered at an October 2005 Naval War College conference
May 29, 2007: Richmond Times Dispatch editorial, "The Changing Climate" cites CNAC National Security and the Threat of Climate Change report
May 25, 2007: CNAC Iran specialist, Dr. William Samii, quoted in Time.com article "Talking to Iran—Or Talking War?"
May 23, 2007: Roanoke Times supports Sen. John Warner's (R-VA) efforts to address the security threats posed by global climate change in editorial, "Global warming poses security challenges"
May 2007: Timothy J. Smith, with the Office of Naval Intelligence and Senior Intelligence Officer for the Center for Naval Analyses, wins the 2006 Galileo Essay Contest sponsored by the Director of Naval Intelligence. Previous winners include Intellipedia creator D. Calvin Andrus
April 28, 2007: In an April 28 feature story headlined, "Officials: Climate Change Harms Security" Associated Press National Writer, Matt Crenson, cites CNAC's report National Security and the Threat of Climate Change
April 2007: CNAC analysts' studies — "Lessons Learned from Smallpox Vaccination of U.S. Navy Forces before Operation Iraqi Freedom," by Scott Savitz and Jessica Stewart, and "Statistical Analysis of Hearing Loss among Navy Personnel," by Robert P. Trost and Geoffrey B. Shaw — appear in April issue of Military Medicine; abstracts available on the ASMUS Journal's website
April 18, 2007: General Gordon Sullivan (USA, ret.), Chairman of CNAC's Military Advisory Board, presents testimony on CNAC's report "National Security and the Threat of Climate Change" before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
April 17, 2007: CNAC Military Advisory Board Chairman, General Gordon Sullivan (USA, ret.), issues statement applauding UN Security Council debate on the national security threats posed by climate change
April 16, 2007: CNAC releases "National Security and the Threat of Climate Change" — a study overseen by a Military Advisory Board of retired three- and four-star admirals and generals from all branches of the armed services
April 5, 2007: Project Iran workshop report, "Assessing the Iran U.K. hostage Crisis," now available on line
March 27, 2007: CNAC establishes China Studies Center, creating one of the largest China analysis programs in the country; inaugural event features remarks by Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.)
March 26, 2007: Robert Murray, president of The CNA Corporation, today announced the establishment of the China Studies Center, creating one of the largest China analysis programs in the country; and announced that the Center's first event will be held March 27, 2007
February 7, 2007: On January 10, 2007 CNAC's Project Asia hosted a roundtable meeting to discuss China's National Defense in 2006, the People's Republic of China's biennial defense white paper released by Beijing on December 29, 2006
February 5, 2007: Defense News cites CNAC's study currently underway to examine the national security implications of global climate change. The report is being advised by a 12-member panel composed of retired flag officers
February 5, 2007: Dr. Carter Malkasian of CNA's Operations Evaluation Group quoted in The Washington Post article: "Officers with PhDs Advising War Effort"
January 28, 2007: CNA's Center for Strategic Studies', Michael Connell, is interviewed on Iran issues in the San Francisco Chronicle article: "As economy struggles, Iranians losing faith in president"
December 11, 2006: David Finkelstein, director of CNAC's Project Asia, quoted in South China Morning Post piece about new Defense Secretary Robert Gates's approach to China. "The China he dealt with as [CIA director] in 1991 is a very different China than he'll be dealing with today," Finkelstein told the paper
December 2006: A new book from M.E. Sharpe, edited by CNAC's China specialists David Finkelstein and Kristen Gunness, examines how China's civilian-military relationship is affected by the significant changes taking place in Chinese society. Chapters explore issues such as the impact of AIDS, the defense budget, and a rising economy on China's civil-military dynamic
December 2006: Analyst Hank Kenny of CNAC's Center for Strategic Studies publishes "Strengthening an Embattled Nation: A Strategy for Contending with the Three Wars in Iraq." Kenny, a Vietnam veteran who has been an academic and a Senate Foreign Relations Committee aide, offers recommendations for defense and military policymakers
November 29, 2006: Defense News quotes Dean Cheng of CNAC's Project Asia, who told a National Press Club audience that although China has no existing policy that addresses how its People's Liberation Army would utilize space capabilities in wartime, there is "an ongoing debate heading toward a doctrine in the future"
November 28, 2006: The Dallas Morning News cites our 2005 study, "Non-citizens in Today's Military," in article about increasing numbers of immigrants in the U.S. military. About five percent of active duty military personnel were born outside the United States
November 22, 2006: Paul Speer, CNAC's director of domestic research, quoted in Government Executive magazine cover story on exercises that aim to prepare government and the private sector for disasters
November/December 2006: CNAC health care analyst Bradley Gray publishes article in Health Affairs with co-author Thomas M. Selden of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The authors say federal and state tax subsidies for employment-related health insurance will top $200 billion this year
November 2006: CNAC's website is honored by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. The website was a silver winner in the annual competition, which judges websites on their "creativity, usability, navigation, functionality, visual design, and ease of use"
November 20, 2006: Michael McDevitt, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and director of CNAC's Center for Strategic Studies, comments on an encounter between a Chinese submarine and the Kitty Hawk, a U.S. aircraft carrier, in Inside the Navy. The incident was first reported in the Washington Times
November 14, 2006: CNAC health care analyst Bradley Gray publishes article in Health Affairs with co-author Thomas M. Selden of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The authors say federal and state tax subsidies for employment-related health insurance will top $200 billion this year
November 8, 2006: Dean Cheng, an expert on China's space program in CNAC's Project Asia, quoted in newscientist.com article on India's planned human spaceflight program
November 2, 2006: San Francisco Chronicle quotes analyst Ken Gause of CNAC's Center for Strategic Studies in article about North Korea's return to six-party nuclear program talks
July 2006: William Samii, with CNAC's Center for Strategic Studies' Project Iran, co-authors, along with Bharat Karnad and James Foley, "Nukes in the balance — The effects of proliferation on regional security" appearing in the July issue of Jane's Intelligence Review

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Events

April 19, 2006: The Foreign Leadership Studies Program, part of the Center for Strategic Studies, holds a roundtable discussion on "Iranian Negotiating Strategies" Conference Report
April 6-7, 2006: The Third Annual Applied Naval History Symposium takes place at the U.S. Naval Academy April 6-7, convening historians, analysts, and military personnel
February 3, 2006: CNAC’s Project Asia sponsors a one-day conference, "Asia and the Science and Politics of Pandemics, "which will focus on Asia as one of the epicenters of emerging diseases
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