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Russia’s Escalation in Syria: Making It Tougher to Fight ISIS?
On Thursday, the Trump administration decided to fire 59 cruise missiles from U.S. naval vessels in the Mediterranean at the Al-Shayrat airbase, an important Syrian military a...
By Nicholas Heras
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Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss Syria in The Washington Post
Commentary
In The Washington Post, CNAS Middle East Security Program experts Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss President Donald Trump's decision to launch missile strikes agains...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Weathering the Coming Storm in the South China Sea
Quite apart from the Trump-Xi summit, China and the United States are due for a showdown in the South China Sea. Beijing confronted the last two administrations with dangerous...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Anthony Cho
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Xi’s Visit Could Signal US Decline, if We Let It
With Xi Jinping journeying to President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, it is worthwhile to question whether the world is witnessing the slow unfolding of o...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Bannon’s Demotion Means the Trump Team Is Learning — Even if Trump Isn’t
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it would remove White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council (NSC). National security wonk...
By Julianne Smith & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Why Was Steve Bannon Booted From the National Security Council: Three Theories
Even without the Russian intrigues of the nascent Trump administration, now would be a time for Kremlinology. Just as intelligence officers used to scrutinize every possible c...
By Phillip Carter
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When Trump Meets Xi: Prepare for the Opening Gambit
The first summit meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is the beginning of a process, punctuated by serious issues, separated by distinctly different negotiat...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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The Failure of Trumpcare Is Good News for the Iran Deal
The collapse of the Republican healthcare bill is good news not only for President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement, but also for one of his central foreign polic...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The State Department Press Corps Is an Asset, Not a Liability
A bad idea, left unchallenged, can become a “good” idea in the minds of the powerful. It can then be acted upon, often to terrible results. The Bay of Pigs fiasco, for instanc...
By Neal Urwitz
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Tips for Mattis on Navigating Swampland
When then President-elect Donald Trump announced that he had chosen Gen. Jim Mattis to lead the Pentagon, there was a collective sigh of relief across the national security es...
By Shawn Brimley
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Trump’s Bad Deal With China
One of Donald Trump’s winning themes on the campaign trail was the notion that nobody was better suited to getting a better deal from China than the man who literally wrote a ...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper & Charles Edel
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Hungary’s Challenge to Trump
A shoe has dropped in Europe. A small shoe, but one with a loud bang on a marble floor. The government of pro-Russian populist Viktor Orban in Hungary has introduced legislati...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Middle Kingdom Meets Middle East
In a new Islamic State video that has undoubtedly caught Beijing’s eye, Uighur militants threaten to “shed blood like rivers” in China, pledge to avenge the oppressed, and bur...
By Richard Fontaine & Michael Singh
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For Tillerson, Showing Up at NATO Isn’t Enough
Bowing to outside pressure, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to attend his first meeting with NATO’s foreign ministers on Friday. But that was not his initial plan. Sch...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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What Is Michael Flynn’s Game?
News leaked on Thursday evening that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was shopping his testimony regarding the Trump administration’s Russia ties to anyone who might listen. Spe...
By Phillip Carter
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Can Trump End the War in Syria?
With the near-doubling of U.S. forces in northern Syria, and perhaps more on the way, President Donald Trump is moving aggressively on his pledge to “demolish and destroy” wha...
By Colin H. Kahl, Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Memo to the Marine Corps: Don't Pretend It's Just a PR Problem
Following almost every crisis and scandal, the person, company or government entity responsible is tempted chalk it up as "just a PR problem." "If only they knew the real us,"...
By Amy Schafer & Neal Urwitz
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Taiwan’s Answer to Chinese Economic Coercion
Commentary
A Japanese vice minister has become the highest-ranking Japanese official to visit Taiwan since Tokyo severed ties with the island in 1972. Jiro Akama, deputy minister of inte...
By Richard Fontaine
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We Need More Of The Right Forces In Afghanistan
Afghanistan is at an inflection point. Again. For anyone keeping track, this has become an annual ritual as our efforts over the last decade have been characterized by the sus...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Bipartisan Investigations: How the 9/11 Commission Did It
Commentary
Whatever your political outlook, the ferment surrounding last year’s presidential election raises important, unanswered questions: What, precisely, did the Russians do, and we...
By Adam Klein & Chris Kojm
