2006 CNA in the News

2006

  • 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
  • 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"

  • 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, 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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"
  • 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