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Elevating Deterrence on the Korean Peninsula
Commentary
As scripted, President Donald Trump’s five-nation Asian tour underscores the longstanding U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific region. Yet North Korea’s Kim Jong U...
By Patrick M. Cronin & David Asher
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The Gulf of Aden Needs US-China Maritime Cooperation
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While President Donald Trump has expressed optimism about his relationship with President Xi Jinping, U.S.-China relations seemed to have cooled because of tension over the No...
By Brittney Washington
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Will Killer Robots Be Banned? Lessons from Past Civil Society Campaigns
Commentary
After several years of debate, on November 13-17, 2017, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will convene a Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) to discuss the ...
By Michael Horowitz
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WATCH: CNAS Launches "Across the Pond, In the Field" Nationwide Outreach Program
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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin have launched a major new project, “Across the Pond, In the Field,” to engage ne...
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The Quiet Rivalry Between China and Russia
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China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative, an economic expansion plan that follows the trade routes of the medieval Tang and Yuan dynasties across Eurasia, is overly ambitious b...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Russia Loves a Shunned U.S. Soldier
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The photo shows a service member’s spouse weeping over her husband’s flag-draped casket, under a headline quoting an out of context snippet of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testi...
By Andrew Swick
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Washington Is Never Quite Sure Where It Is at War
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The United States is a nation at war. But for much of the past two decades, a great deal of the Pentagon’s overseas activities would not technically classify as combat, with a...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Prospects for a defense budget deal
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Susanna joins Government Matters TV to offer insight into negotiations over the National Defense Authorization Act. Watch the conversation here....
By Susanna V. Blume
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The War on Apathy
Commentary
Right now, Congress has no incentive to rein in America’s military actions around the world. A threat to reinstate the draft would give it one....
By Amy Schafer
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Middle East Security Forum 2017
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In a region long known for its complexity, the Middle East landscape seems to grow more complicated by the week. To help unpack the latest developments—about Iran’s nuclear pr...
By Michèle Flournoy, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Climate Change: The New Asian Drama
Commentary
When the Swedish economist and sociologist Gunnar Myrdal wrote his magisterial three volume study of postwar economic and political development in Asia, he questioned whether ...
By Neil Bhatiya
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The United States Can Be a World Leader in AI. Here's How.
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The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is upon us. Artificial general intelligence—machines that could perform the full range of intellectual tasks better than humans—are...
By Paul Scharre & Alexander Velez-Green
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Washington Has a Bad Case of China ADHD
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As global attention fixes on the Trump administration’s North Korea and Iran policies, the White House is preparing for another consequential policy shift that’s gone almost u...
By Daniel Kliman
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Putting Peace Out of Reach
Commentary
Despite the past week of violence that rocked Afghanistan, including a wave of major Taliban attacks on Afghan security forces, the Trump administration appears to still be ho...
By Stephen Tankel
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Want to Honor the Vets? Go See This Movie.
Commentary
Ancient Greeks knew war intimately, thanks to frequent conflict at the time and norms about military service that existed back then. Despite or maybe because of this intimacy ...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump’s Asian Security Dilemma
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President Trump’s upcoming five-country Asian tour takes place amid deepening worries about security trends across the region. North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs menac...
By Richard Fontaine
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Why were US soldiers even in Niger? America’s shadow wars in Africa, explained.
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President Trump’s inexplicable fight with the widow of a Green Beret who was killed in Niger has sparked a political firestorm that shows no signs of dying down. It’s also bro...
By Phillip Carter & Andrew Swick
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Journalists Aren’t 'Fake News.' They’re Patriots
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On Monday, journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb. She led the research into the Panama Papers, which exposed tens of billions of dollars of stolen money...
By Neal Urwitz
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John McCain's 'Bone Spurs' Comment Shows There's a Deeper Problem in the Military
Commentary
Sen. John McCain’s recent comments about the wealthy avoiding service in Vietnam through deferments not only took an unsubtle swipe at the current commander-in-chief, but also...
By Andrew Swick
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US Space Policy Should Aim to Preserve Advantage on the New Frontier
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The administration of Donald Trump is the first of the 21st century to not be entirely preoccupied by issues of terrorism and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Such conditions pro...
By Adam Routh & Jerry Hendrix
