2008 CNA in the News

2008

• December 16, 2008

  Dr. Carter Malkasian, director the Stability and Development Program at CNA, is quoted in The Christian Science Monitor article "Bid to split Taliban, Al Qaeda"

• December 11, 2008
  CNA analyst, Kenneth Allen, is cited in the Air Force Times article "Building a wary rapport with China"
• December 8, 2008
  ExecutiveBiz names CNA's Admiral Bill "Fox" Fallon as one of the "Top 20 People to Watch in 2009"
• December 6, 2008

  Lee Gunn, President of CNA's Institute for Public Research appears on the Saturday, December 6, 2008 edition of C-SPAN'S Washington Journal series

• December 5, 2008
  Upcoming Center for Naval Analyses review cited in Inside Defense article "Air Force Lays Out Five Goals to 'Strengthen' Acquisition Process" (subscription required)
• December 4, 2008

  CNA General Counsel and Executive Director of CNA's Military Advisory Board, Sherri Goodman, is interviewed for the PRI piece "Climate Change and National Security"

• December 2, 2008

  Sherri Goodman, CNA General Counsel and Executive Director of CNA's Military Advisory Board, addresses plenary session of SERDP-ESTCP Symposium & Workshop "Partners in Environmental Technology." View remarks

• December 1, 2008
  The Air Force Times cites Center for Naval Analyses research in two articles: "Fewer troops choosing Redux plan" and "$30,000 Redux bonus could cost you $427,000"
• November 30, 2008

  In the run-up to the Dec. 5 conference on "China and the Next Administration," sponsored by CNA and The Washington Post’s Outlook section, CNA China Studies Director, David Finkelstein, contributes to the Outlook piece "The Case for a Really Long Engagement"

• November 19, 2008
  CNA field representative Kim Hall is quoted in the Los Angeles Times article "Pirates hijack another merchant ship off Africa"
• November 19, 2008
  Kim Hall, CNA field representative is interviewed by Security Management for article "Pirates Frustrate U.S. in the Gulf of Aden"
• November 16, 2008

  CNA National Security and the Threat of Climate Change report cited in McClatchy Newspapers article "Weather Causing War — Experts Expect Conflicts from Climate Change"

• November 15, 2008

  The Houston Chronicle cites CNA climate report in its article "Global climate changes could lead to violence"

• November 13, 2008

  CNA's report National Security and the Threat of Climate Change is featured in The Washington Times "U.S. military worries about climate change"

• November 11, 2008

  Dr. Carter Malkasian, director of CNA's Stability and Development Program is interviewed in houma.today article "Local veterans still struggle with war-time memories"

• November 11, 2008

  The Kansas City Star cites CNA's National Security and the Threat of Climate Change and quotes Military Advisory Board Executive Secretary, Sherri Goodman, in its article "Changing climate may push more countries past the brink of war"

• November 11, 2008

  CNA China Studies' David Finkelstein in interviewed on the U.S. presidential elections by China's Southern Weekly

• October 28, 2008
  Market Watch and Navy Times report on retired commander of U.S. Central Command, Admiral William J. Fallon, joining CNA as a Distinguished Fellow
• September 25, 2008

  CNA analyst Ken Gause is quoted in English.Chosen.com's "Academics Ponder N.Korea After Kim Jong-il"

• September 24, 2008

  AP interviews CNA analyst in "China launches mission for first spacewalk"

• September 24, 2008

  Space.com, in article titled "China Set to Launch Third Manned Mission", interviews CNA's Dean Cheng

• September 24, 2008
  Time.com quotes CNA analyst in "China's New Venture in Space"
• September 19, 2008

  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer cites CNA's landmark report National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, in "The Climate of War and Peace"

• September 17, 2008
  CNA analysts Thomas Bickford, Dennis Blasko, and Fred Vellucci, author chapters in The "People" in the PLA: Recruitment, Training, and Education in China's Military from the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute and the National Bureau of Asian Research (download free copy)
• September 13, 2008
  ABC News-produced "Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff" interviews Sherri Goodman on national security and the threat of climate change for Discovery's Planet Green Channel
• September 12, 2008
  Korean Broadcast System (KBS) World Radio quotes Ken Gause's Foreign Policy comments in its story "NK Likely to Form Collective Leadership"
• September 10, 2008

  Foreign Policy magazine's Blake Hounshell interviews Ken Gause regarding North Korea

• September 8, 2008
  CNA's Carter Malkasian is quoted in Marine Corps Times' article "Marines Trumpet success in Anbar, plan next moves"
• August 24, 2008

  This Week in Defense News interviews CNA General Counsel Sherri Goodman on the subject national security and the threat of climate change

• July 29, 2008

  The Small Wars Journal reports on CNA's Counterinsurgency Discussion

• July 24, 2008

  The Army Times and Daily Times (Pakistan) cover issues raised by senior military scholars at CNA-sponsored Discussion of Counterinsurgency

• July 23, 2008

  Carter Malkasian, director of CNA's Stability and Development Program, and co-editor of Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare, is quoted in Reuters and Middle East Times articles

• July 3, 2008

  In the article "Marine moms and dads often drop out of boot camp" USA Today features Associated Press story citing CNA

• July 2008

  Timothy Beres, Vice President and Director of CNA Safety and Security, co-authors a Government Executive Viewpoint article "Paying it Forward"

• June 27, 2008

  Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Paul Gaffney, President of Monmouth University and member of CNA's Military Advisory Board (MAB), and Sherri Goodman, CNA General Counsel and MAB Executive Director are interviewed by the BBC in "US climate change security fears"

• June 27, 2008

  US climate change security fears BBC Two Newsnight, Susan Watts

• June 26, 2008
  Report: Climate change linked to national security USA Today, Pamela Hess, Associated Press Writer
• June 26, 2008
  Global warming, terrorism tiedThe Paris Post-Intelligencer
• June 26, 2008
  Climate Change May Challenge National Security, Classified Report WarnsScience Daily
• June 26, 2008
  Intelligence report warns of global warming's potential political, humanitarian effects Dallas Morning News, from wire reports
• June 26, 2008

  Climate change will impact US national security Agence France-Presse

• June 26, 2008
  Climate Change "Threat" to US Security Islam online.net, IOL Staff
• June 25, 2008

  Intelligence Report Eyes Climate Change-Security Link NPR's All Things Considered, Tom Gjelten

• June 25, 2008

  Report links terrorism, climate Global warming could incite instability, classified papers say Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,Diana Marrero

• June 24, 2008

  Dean Cheng, Chinese security affairs specialist with CNA's Project Asia, is interviewed in Space.com article "China's First Spacewalk: A Prelude of Things to Come"

• June 23, 2008

  CNA General Counsel, Sherri Goodman, is interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered in its story "Intelligence Report Eyes Climate Change-Security Link." (Read transcript.)

• 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 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 2008
  CNA's Mitzi Wertheim is interviewed by Washington Life for its special report "Flight of the Green Hawks"
• 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

• 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 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 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

• February 2008

  CNA analyst Christopher Duquette's study on the impact of money on elections is published in Economics Bulletin

• 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…"

• January 2, 2008
  Bad Tidings National Interest magazine, CNA General Counsel, Sherri Goodman and MAB member Gen. Paul Kern, USA (Ret.)
• 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