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Security assistance isn't the quick fix the US thinks it is
Building partner capacity, or BPC, has become all the rage. But the recent capture of U.S.-trained rebels in Syria by the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra front is the latest in a...
By Dafna Rand
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From 1987: Robert D. Kaplan on Robert Conquest
At the height of the famine emergency in 1985, a few journalists sat around a restaurant table in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, considering analogies for the food cris...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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A Defining Moment for the Alliance?
Williams: To what extent is it fair to classify Europe's lack of investment in defense technology and national defense budgets as a threat to the capabilities of the Atlantic ...
By Julianne Smith
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America's Allies Want More From the US
During the past several years, U.S. allies got a “reset” and a “rebalance,” but what they really need and want is reassurance. During our time in the Obama administration, we ...
By Julianne Smith
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Why China likes the Iran deal
As members of Congress debate whether to back the deal over Iran's nuclear program, one source of support seems guaranteed -- China. It's one of the biggest winners in the agr...
By Alexander Sullivan & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Stephen Hawking Doesn't Have to Fear Killer Robots
On Monday, a broad group of several thousand academics, legal scholars, roboticists, and scientific luminaries – including Stephen Hawking – released an open letter warning th...
By Kelley Sayler
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North Korea's saber rattling more worrying than Russia
While Iranian leaders prepare to pause on their nuclear program, Russia and North Korea appear locked in a contest for chief nuclear menace. Both Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Contesting the Caliphate
On June 29, 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared himself the Caliph, extending his position as the ruler of the Islamic State and claiming leadership of all Muslims. A remarkab...
By Marc Lynch
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Forecasting the Future of US-China Competition
China figured prominently in this year’s annual conference conducted by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), which held the massive, all-day event at the end of last...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Can the Iran deal be a new Camp David?
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement over Iran’s nuclear program announced on Tuesday is a genuinely historic accomplishment. While experts will closely pa...
By Marc Lynch
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How Promoting Business in Iran Boosts the Nuclear Agreement
The United States and international partners have signed a historic agreement with Iran on its nuclear program, but they still face important choices about just how far to go ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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A historic agreement
The nuclear agreement reached in Vienna creates an unprecedented opportunity for the United States to deter Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and increase stability in the M...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Ilan Goldenberg
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Here Are The Highlights From The Joint Chiefs' New National Military Strategy
Here’s the good news and bad news laid out in the 2015 National Military Strategy recently released by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Over the sleepy D.C. week leading up to th...
By Katherine Kidder
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Sanctions Relief Can Empower the Iranian People
If the United States, other world powers and Iran sign a nuclear deal in the coming weeks, the United States should proceed strategically in its diplomatic opening with Iran t...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Peter Harrell
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The Biggest Myth about North Korea
A million lives and a trillion dollars. Experts in the 1990s predicted that the costs of war with North Korea would reach at least this magnitude. While this is probably true ...
By Hannah Suh & Van Jackson
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The Greek Crisis Is About More Than Money
Geopolitics can be more important than economics. Just look at Greece. On purely economic grounds, Greece should never have been admitted to the European Union in 1981 and mig...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Lean Forward in Iraq
The announcement this month that 450 additional U.S. trainers and support troops will deploy to Iraq represents a modest step forward in the fight against the Islamic State. B...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Dawn of the Drones
We are living in a drone saturated world. In recent years, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have proliferated rapidly around the globe in both military and civilian ...
By Kelley Sayler
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America and South Korea Strengthen Military Alliance
The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) are embarking on a bold experiment of shared command at the tactical level. On June 3, 2015, the U.S. Forces in Korea (USFK)...
By David Eunpyoung Jee
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How the West Can Still Lead the World
Listen to any European or American leader talk about the transatlantic relationship these days and you will hear a handful of common refrains. Major policy addresses of this k...
By Julianne Smith