December 2011

Public Health Preparedness

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Heed Film Lessons on Outbreak
To assure the health security of the United States, we must be capable of stopping anything a terrorist or Mother Nature might throw at us. Wholesale cuts to public health are taking us farther from that goal, write Art Kellermann and Melinda Moore.
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Dec 29, 2011
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Arthur L. Kellermann, Melinda Moore

Global Security

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North Korea: Uncertain and Dangerous Times Ahead
With his father's support over the last year, Kim Jong-Un has tried to rapidly reshape the North Korean leadership structure, giving him many new subordinates who are untried and lacking experience. Some will clearly make mistakes, writes Bruce Bennett.
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Dec 21, 2011
The RAND Blog
Bruce W. Bennett @bwbennett
Nation Building

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The Year of the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring demonstrated that leaderless revolutions are difficult to repress or co-opt. Unfortunately, it is also true that leaderless revolts find it difficult to make transition to authority, writes Charles Ries.
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Dec 20, 2011
GlobalSecurity.org and The RAND Blog
Charles P. Ries @charles_ries
Veterans Health Care

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Bridging the Gaps in Treating Veterans with Post-Deployment Mental Health Problems
Delivery of evidence-based care to all veterans with PTSD or depression would pay for itself—or even save money—within two years by improving productivity and reducing medical and mortality costs, writes Terri Tanielian.
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Dec 5, 2011
AcademyHealth
Terri Tanielian
Nuclear Deterrence

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Dissuading Iran from the Bomb and Avoiding War
By refusing to face more squarely the probability that Iran will eventually acquire a nuclear weapons capability, the American and Israeli governments actually reduce their ability to dissuade Iran from crossing that threshold, writes James Dobbins.
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Dec 2, 2011
Public Service Europe
James Dobbins @Jim_Dobbins