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Policy Roundtable: What to Make of Trump’s National Security Strategy
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Every time an American president releases a new National Security Strategy, it provokes a round of commentary on the document itself as well as an additional round of hand-wri...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Michèle Flournoy on Fox News Sunday: Trump's 'America First' doctrine
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Michèle Flournoy joins 'Fox News Sunday' to discuss President Trump's foreign policy....
By Michèle Flournoy
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Michèle Flournoy speaks at 2017 Reagan National Defense Forum
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At the 2017 Reagan National Defense Forum, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) CEO Michèle Flournoy joined the panel "Keeping Pace in Europe and Asia: Are We Postured to...
By Michèle Flournoy
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The 5 things we learned from Trump’s Asia trip
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President Trump returned Tuesday night after 12 days in Asia. So what did we learn from his stops in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines? Here are five take...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Trump's Post-Pivot Strategy
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s five-nation tour of Asia in November 2017 marks the inception of America’s post-pivot strategy. Through summitry and speeches, Trump set forth h...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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The Quad: US and its allies want insurance against instability and coercion in Asia
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If all goes according to plan, officials from the United States, Australia, Japan and India will sit down together on the margins of next week's East Asia Summit. The gatherin...
By Richard Fontaine
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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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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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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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Putting Peace Out of Reach
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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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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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The Necessity of Questioning the Military
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On Thursday morning, I planned to write a pointed screed decrying President Trump’s propensity to view the military community as a problem he can buy off with a check. Then, o...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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A Tale of Two Speeches
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In two widely noticed speeches this week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and President George W. Bush called Americans to a global leadership worthy of the country’s best traditio...
By Richard Fontaine
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Former Army Secretary: Donald Trump’s Transgender Troops Ban Weakens the Military
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As the 22nd Secretary of the Army, my job was to ensure the Army remained the most effective fighting force the world has ever known. Critical to this effort was the constant ...
By Eric Fanning
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Trump Can't Just Walk Away From the Iran Deal. It's Not an Atlantic City Casino.
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Last November, the election results indicated that the nation was disappointed with the performance of its politicians, and so it decided to bring in a property developer and ...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Trump has a point on trade, however small
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Whether he is conferring with a close ally or staring down an angry antagonist, President Trump has a beef to pick on trade. Thermonuclear crisis with North Korea? Time to lec...
By Harry Krejsa
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The Problem with 'the Best of Intentions' Foreign Policy
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The nineteenth-century Germans focused so much on philosophy partly in order not to compete with the protean genius of Goethe, who had dominated all the other literary genres ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Michele Flournoy on NPR Morning Edition: Deciphering Trump's Foreign Policy
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CNAS CEO Michele Flournoy sits down with NPR Morning Edition host David Greene to analyze President Trump's speech at the UN General Assembly and consider his foreign policy s...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Will Trump’s Military Fetish End Up Hurting American Democracy — Or Saving It?
It is difficult to read a story about President Donald Trump without also hearing about “his generals.” Since Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster became national security advisor and retir...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Over-aggressive sanctions in Venezuela would backfire on the United States
Frustrated by a deteriorating situation in Venezuela, the Trump administration has widenedits sanctions program on the Maduro government, sending a strong signal to the regime...
By Neil Bhatiya
