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  • LTG David Barno Testifies Before House Armed Services Committee on Transition in
    LTG David Barno Testifies Before House Armed Services Committee on Transition in Afghanistan
    Type of Publication: Congressional Testimony
    Date: 02/27/2013

    LTG David Barno, USA (Ret.) testified before the House Armed Services Committee on the road ahead in Afghanistan and protecting U.S. vital interests in the country and the region post-2014.

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  • Shawn Brimley Testifies Before the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee o
    Shawn Brimley Testifies Before the House Armed Services Committee on the QDR
    Author(s): Shawn Brimley
    Type of Publication: Congressional Testimony
    Date: 02/26/2013

    In his testimony before the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, CNAS Vice President and Director of Studies Shawn Brimley discussed the role of the QDR and key issues for the 2014 QDR in the context of a changing strategic environment.

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  • Active Cyber Defense: A Framework for Policymakers
    Active Cyber Defense: A Framework for Policymakers
    Type of Publication: Policy Brief
    Date: 02/22/2013

    Cyber attacks are posing ever more serious economic and national security risks to the United States.  In Active Cyber Defense: A Framework for Policymakers, CNAS Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Technology and U.S. National Security Dr. Irving Lachow urges policymakers to provide guidance and clarity on an intensifying debate about active cyber defense (ACD).

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  • Syria's Hard Landing
    Syria's Hard Landing
    Author(s): Dr. Marc Lynch
    Type of Publication: Policy Brief
    Date: 02/22/2013

    As the conflict in Syria escalates into an even more brutal civil war, it not only continues to cause great human suffering, but it also threatens to undermine the stability of the country’s regional neighbors. In Syria’s Hard Landing, Dr. Marc Lynch, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, argues that the international response to these developments has been manifestly inadequate. While he writes that the debate over Syria must shift to reflect new realities and that there are actions American policymakers can take in order to prepare for a political transition after Asad falls from power, he maintains that the United States should continue to resist direct intervention or directly arming rebels.

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  • Atomic Kingdom: If Iran Builds the Bomb, Will Saudi Arabia Be Next?
    Atomic Kingdom: If Iran Builds the Bomb, Will Saudi Arabia Be Next?
    Type of Publication: Report
    Date: 02/19/2013

    It is taken for granted in Washington that Saudi Arabia will inevitably pursue nuclear weapons if Tehran succeeds in its quest for the bomb. However, CNAS Senior Fellow Colin Kahl, Visiting Fellow Melissa G. Dalton and Research Associate Matthew Irvine argue in their new report Atomic Kingdom: If Iran Builds the Bomb, Will Saudi Arabia Be Next? that the prospects for Saudi reactive proliferation are lower than the conventional wisdom suggests.

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  • Assessing the Cyber Executive Order
    Assessing the Cyber Executive Order
    Type of Publication: Commentary
    Date: 02/13/2013

    On February 12, President Obama signed an Executive Order designed to improve the cyber security of the nation's critical infrastructures such as power plants, financial systems and telecommunications networks. CNAS Senior Fellow & Director of the Program on Technology and U.S. National Security Dr. Irving Lachow and Research Associate Jacob Stokes offer their perspective on the Executive Order's strengths and areas for improvement in their analysis Assessing the Cyber Executive Order.

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  • Renewing America's Strategic Solvency
    Renewing America's Strategic Solvency
    Type of Publication: Commentary
    Date: 02/12/2013

    As Shawn Brimley and Jacob Stokes write in their commentary Renewing America's Strategic Solvency, foreign policy experts are likely to feel spurned when President Obama gives his State of the Union speech on Tuesday. Some may interpret the President’s focus on jobs and the economy, with only passing discussion of international issues, as declinism or retrenchment. However, they argue, given the critical intersection of domestic strength and U.S. national security, these experts would be mistaken to do so.

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  • Finding Common Ground: Energy, Security and Cooperation in the South
    Finding Common Ground: Energy, Security and Cooperation in the South China Sea
    Author(s): Will Rogers
    Type of Publication: Flashpoints Bulletin
    Date: 02/12/2013

    Global energy trends are increasing demands for potential hydrocarbons in the South China Sea. As the global economy recovers from worldwide recession, demand for energy is steadily picking up speed, particularly among emerging economies in South and East Asia. As U.S. policymakers look for opportunities to promote cooperation over competition, Will Rogers argues in Finding Common Ground: Energy, Security and Cooperation in the South China Sea that understanding these emerging trends and their role in the broader South China Sea dispute will be essential to diffusing tensions and avoiding conflict.

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  • The Internet Yalta
    The Internet Yalta
    Type of Publication: Commentary
    Date: 02/05/2013

    In his commentary The Internet Yalta, Alexander Klimburg, Fellow and Senior Adviser at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, argues that the December 2012 meeting of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) may be the digital equivalent of the February 1945 meeting of the Allied powers in Yalta: the beginning of a long Internet Cold War between authoritarian and liberal-democratic countries. 

    Please note, an earlier version of this commentary contained errors on pages 3 and 5.

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  • The Challenge of Chinese Revisionism: The Expanding Role of China’s Non-Military
    The Challenge of Chinese Revisionism: The Expanding Role of China’s Non-Military Maritime Vessels
    Type of Publication: Flashpoints Bulletin
    Date: 02/01/2013

    Recent actions by China’s non-military law enforcement vessels pose one of the most immediate threats to peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. In The Challenge of Chinese Revisionism: The Expanding Role of China's Non-Military Maritime Vessels, CNAS experts Zachary M. Hosford and Ely Ratner argue that the United States, together with its allies and partners, will need a new strategic approach to meet this emerging challenge.

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