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Latest CNASer to Join Obama Pentagon Is Natural Resources Wonk

By | 12.10.09 | 5:51 pm

The Obama administration announced this afternoon that Sharon Burke, a vice president of the Center for a New American Security, is headed to the Pentagon as its next director of Operational Energy Plans and Programs. Fitting: Burke pioneered CNAS’s focus on the role of natural resources in global security More…

National Security and Old-Fashioned Natural Resources

By | 06.11.09 | 2:38 pm

Here’s Sharon Burke, vice president of Center for a New American Security, who just got effusive praise from former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), and who’s presenting a panel on those old atavistic security questions about natural resources. The idea of climate change, for instance, as a national security issue has More…