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Video: Sullivan Discusses Joko Widodo’s Visit To Japan And The New Japan-Indonesia Security Cooperation Agreement
By Alexander Sullivan
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Video: Sullivan Discusses Japan's Strategic Outreach To Southeast Asia And Indonesia's Role In The South China Sea.
By Alexander Sullivan
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Commanding the Swarm
Today’s uninhabited vehicles are largely tele-operated, with a person piloting or driving the vehicle remotely, but tomorrow’s won’t be. They will incorporate increasing auton...
By Paul Scharre
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Will Asia's Peace Last?
Will Asia’s peace endure? The answer depends on how policymakers cope with growing structural pressures that increasingly encourage miscalculations, arms races, and reckless f...
By Van Jackson
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Why North Korea Is So Freaked out by US-ROK Drills
Spring is a season for cherry blossoms. However, for many of the 28,500 of American military personnel forward deploying in the Republic of Korea (ROK), this is the season for...
By David Eunpyoung Jee
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Dr. Jerry Hendrix on A Strategy for Sustainment and Fiscal Security
Defense Strategies and Assessments Director Dr. Jerry Hendrix discusses his new report, "Avoiding Trivia: A Strategy for Sustainment and Fiscal Security" with Neal Urwitz, dir...
By Neal Urwitz & Jerry Hendrix
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Visiting Fellow Dr. Van Jackson discusses Japan’s militarization
Is Japan striving for military “normalcy,” hedging against uncertainty, or balancing a more assertive China? Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan has increased defense spen...
By Van Jackson
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Commentary: The Imperative of Long-Range Strike
Later this spring, the Department of Defense will unveil its decision for the new long-range strike bomber. The program, designed to supplement aging bomber inventories and re...
By Kelley Sayler & Paul Scharre
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A Matter of National Security: America Must Support TPP
Some business analysts are stressing that the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership between the United States and 10 other countries promises smaller rewards—if also fewer risks—t...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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It’s Math
Greg Easterbrook’s recent column “Our Navy is Big Enough” in the New York Times demonstrates that one lecture at the Naval War College does not a naval expert make. Easterbroo...
By Jerry Hendrix
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The Human Element in Robotic Warfare
The first rule of unmanned aircraft is, don’t call them unmanned aircraft. And whatever you do, don’t call them drones. The U.S. Air Force prefers the term “remotely pil...
By Paul Scharre
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Why China's Growing Defense Budget Matters
So what does this tell us? Obviously nothing definitive, given that such an inherently indeterminate question as the nature and contours of China’s future behavior cannot be r...
By Elbridge Colby
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U.S. Security Challenges
On This Week in Defense News, Asia-Pacific Security Senior Director Dr. Patrick Cronin discusses the fight against the Islamic State group, Russia's aggression in Ukraine an...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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A New Model of U.S. Defense Cooperation
How are our European allies meant to cope with the predations of Russia, Middle East friends with the Islamic State, and Asian partners with the gray-zone challenges of China?...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Unleash the Swarm: The Future of Warfare
Could swarms of low-cost expendable systems change how militaries fight? Last November, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall asked the Defense Science Board to examine a r...
By Paul Scharre
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The Foreign Policy Essay: The South Korean Sentry—A “Killer Robot” to Prevent War
A new sentry guards the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. It is South Korea’s SGR-A1, a robot with the ability to autonomously identify and destroy targets....
By Alexander Velez-Green
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A World of Proliferated Drones
Paul Scharre, who is the Director of the 20YY Warfare Initiative at CNAS, contemplates how the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles among states and non-state actors is i...
By Paul Scharre
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Dr. Van Jackson before the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Visiting Fellow Dr. Van Jackson testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific on U.S. Opportunities and Challenges in the Asia P...
By Van Jackson
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Robots at War and the Quality of Quantity
The U.S. Department of Defense has launched the search for a “third offset strategy,” an approach to sustain U.S. military technological superiority against potential adversar...
By Paul Scharre
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Release the drones
This week, the Obama administration announced a new policy loosening export restrictions for military and commercial drones. This policy shift represents a responsible first s...
By Kelley Sayler, Paul Scharre & Van Jackson