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The wrong stuff: The F-35 vs. what U.S. airpower really needs in the future
The fact that the F-35 Lightning II isn’t making an appearance at the Farnborough International Airshow is the latest in a never-ending string of disappointments that have mar...
By Kelley Sayler
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Political science after Gaza
Israel’s latest war with Gaza has already killed more than a thousand people, including hundreds of children, while showing few signs of significantly changing anything fundam...
By Marc Lynch
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China Advances on Missile Defense, With Eye on Dissuading Rivals
On July 23, China conducted its third declared ballistic missile defense (BMD) test in the past four years, with the Defense Ministry announcing afterward that the test had “a...
By Richard Weitz
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How to Lose the Robotics Revolution
The U.S. military is at the leading edge of the robotics revolution, with some of the most advanced systems on the globe like the autonomous X-47B carrier-based aircraft. But ...
By Paul Scharre
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It’s Time to Talk About the Role of U.S. Civilians in Modern War
There is a new bill currently languishing in Congressional committee, the “Combat Zone Tax Parity Act,” which would grant federal civilian employees deployed to combat zones t...
By Phillip Carter
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How Russia, China and the US can denuclearize North Korea
Despite their many differences over regional security and other issues, China, Russia, and the United States continue to collaborate to counter the nuclear and missile program...
By Richard Weitz
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East Africa Rising
The Greater Indian Ocean is the maritime organizing principle of geopolitics, uniting the entire arc of Islam (including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf), East Africa, the In...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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MH17 disaster foretells a more dangerous world
The Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster is a poignant reminder of the randomness of fortune and misfortune. But it also serves as a prelude to an emerging security environmen...
By Kelley Sayler & Patrick M. Cronin
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Australia's new activism: The view from Washington
When US officials talk about the US-Australia alliance, they almost always highlight, as President Obama did in hisNovember 2011 speech in Canberra, that Australians have foug...
By Ely Ratner
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The Shadow Wars of the 21st Century
War is morphing. Today’s headlines are dominated by the conflicts in Gaza, Iraq and Ukraine, which little resemble the large, conventional state versus state wars that dominat...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Putin’s South American Trip Hides Russia’s Strategic Weaknesses
Although Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to South America earlier this month was overshadowed by events in Ukraine and the Middle East, it did garner considerable att...
By Richard Weitz
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Trouble at sea reveals the new shape of China’s foreign policy
China’s recent moves in the East and South China Seas – various military deployments, policy proclamations, provocative naval maneuvers and rhetorical stridency – pose serious...
By Kurt Campbell
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Beyond UCLASS: Preparing the Navy for Next Generation Warfare
The United States is the world’s leading military power in large part because it employs both the best military technologies in the world and the best-trained force to effecti...
By Michael Horowitz
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In Japan’s defense change, context is everything
WASHINGTON/HONOLULU – The announcement by Japan’s government that it will reinterpret the country’s constitution and permit a greater range of military activity has evoked rea...
By Richard Fontaine
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Iran's Highly Enriched Bargaining Chip
As talks over Iran's disputed nuclear program enter the home stretch, Tehran has placed a major obstacle in the way of a diplomatic solution: insistence on an industrial-scale...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Getting Unmanned Naval Aviation Right
The issue of when and how the U.S. Armed Forces fully integrate unmanned and increasingly autonomous surveillance and strike platforms into their inventory is one of the most ...
By Shawn Brimley
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The Case for U.S. Arms Sales to Vietnam
When Beijing built a deep-sea drilling platform squarely in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone earlier this summer, it once again flouted widely accepted rules and sought to ex...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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For Afghanistan Election, After Kerry Deal Comes the Hard Part
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s shuttle diplomacy in Kabul this weekend paved the way to resolving Afghanistan’s current election crisis, while helping to establish a pot...
By Richard Weitz
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When it comes to oil exports, all our fears are old fears
Are you still driving a Pinto? Smoking in the office and wearing polyester bellbottoms? Probably not, because we don’t live in the 1970s any more. So why does our oil export p...
By Peter Gardett
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Non-Academic Job Searches in DC – What to Know
Many graduate students are expanding their job searches outside the academy. As an advisor, I’m horribly underprepared at offering job advice outside of the academic job mark...
By Katherine Kidder