ASP ICYMI – Afghanistan, US energy sector, nuclear weapons and more

ASP ICYMI : Nuclear energy, marking the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Discovery and American leadership, fusion and more

We need to seriously invest in correcting this critical shortfall in our national security capabilities. Soft power needs to become a whole-of-nation effort. This is a skill set we’ll surely need for the rest of this century.

In order for the United States to gain greater advantage for our no testing policy we should ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). This would institute a worldwide ban on nuclear tests and the use of networks to apply pressure against states like Iran and North Korea.

The Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. James Winnefeld, explains why the Law of the Sea Convention is important to the US military during his keynote speech to the 2012 CSIS Global Security Forum on April 11, 2012

I recently came back from a trip to Italy, during which I observed several interesting devices that meet energy and environmentally conscious needs.