By Matthew Wallin 60,000 people dead—instantly. 150,000 more exposed to hazardous radiation.  All ships and infrastructure at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach destroyed.  An exodus of six million people from the greater Los Angeles region.  Initial costs of $1 trillion.  This is exactly the scenario considered in a 2006 RAND Corporation study…

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Source: The Atlantic, 8/30/2011 ASP Fellow Joshua Foust is a featured author. For all its popularity among pundits, how much of an historical, much less strategic, background does it really have? “…First of all, Interventionism is most certainly not the American idea. America as a philosophy is about choice and self-determination as much as it…

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Source: The Atlantic, 8/31/2011 ASP Fellow Joshua Foust is a featured author. The military’s evolving role in U.S. foreign policy decision-making. “Most Americans would be shocked to learn that something like 95 percent of the foreign affairs budget of the federal government is devoted to the military. National security accounts for about twenty percent of…

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Recent articles show that the potential of fusion as a long-term energy source is gaining a wider audience. This is particularly important because fusion is approaching several important milestones.

Source: The Atlantic, 8/29/2011 ASP Fellow Joshua Foust is a featured author. The U.S. government continues to opt for brute force “Kathy Gannon drops an unsurprising bombshell: Infuriated that Washington met secretly at least three times with a personal emissary of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Afghan government intentionally leaked details of the clandestine…

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Source: The Hill, 8/29/11 Consensus member Brig. Gen. John Adams authors an op-ed about controlling defense spending. By Brig. Gen. John Adams “For far too long the quality of our national security has been judged by the quantity of Pentagon spending and by the size of our armed forces. The truth is, the more we…

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