2006 News & Information

  • CNA in the News: December 11, 2006
    David Finkelstein, director of CNA'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
  • From CNA: December 2006
    The book Civil-Military Relations in Today’s China – Swimming in a New Sea,edited by CNA'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.
  • From CNA: December 2006
    Analyst Hank Kenny of CNA'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
  • CNA in the News: November 29, 2006

    Defense News quotes Dean Cheng of CNA'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"

  • CNA in the News: 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

  • CNA in the News: November 22, 2006

    Paul Speer, CNA'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

  • CNA in the News: November 20, 2006
    Michael McDevitt, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and director of CNA'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
  • CNA in the News: November 14, 2006
    CNA 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
  • CNA in the News: November 8, 2006

    Dean Cheng, an expert on China's space program in CNA's Project Asia, quoted in newscientist.com article on India's planned human spaceflight program

  • CNA in the News: November 2, 2006

    San Francisco Chronicle quotes analyst Ken Gause of CNA's Center for Strategic Studies in article about North Korea's return to six-party nuclear program talks

  • CNA in the News: November 2006
    CNA'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"
  • News Release: September 27, 2006

    Tim Beres, former director of preparedness programs for the Department of Homeland Security, joins CNA

  • CNA in the News: July 2006

    William Samii, with CNA'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

  • News Release: May 8, 2006

    Sarah L. Friedman, a former official at the National Institutes of Health, joins CNA to direct the Appalachian Regional Education Laboratory, a major Department of Education contract recently awarded to CNA

  • News Release: April 20, 2006
    Vincent Taylor, former DOT assistant secretary, to head CNA's Human Capital Management Center
  • Iranian Negotiating Strategies – April 19, 2006

    The Foreign Leadership Studies Program, part of the Center for Strategic Studies, holds a roundtable discussion on "Iranian Negotiating Strategies"

  • Riverine Warfare: Back to the Future – 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.

  • From CNA: April 1, 2006
    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
  • News Release: March 14, 2006
    The U.S. Department of Education has awarded CNA's Education Center a $26 million contract to run the Appalachian Regional Education Laboratory
  • News Release: February 27, 2006
    Noted educator Robert "Bud" Spillane to lead CNA's Education Center
  • Asia and the Science and Politics of Pandemics – February 3, 2006

    CNA'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.