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Rewire: Semiconductors and U.S. Industrial Policy
Chris Miller | September 19, 2022
Defense
No I in Team
The United States faces a strategic landscape unlike anything it has encountered in its recent history. It faces a rising great power in China, a diminished but still dangerou...
Defense
Precision and Posture: Defense Spending Trends and the FY23 Budget Request
This report examines the fiscal year (FY) 2023 defense budget request and assesses whether it sufficiently resources what was known of the Biden administration’s national defe...
Transatlantic Security
Russia in the Arctic: Gauging How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Will Alter Regional Dynamics
Russia’s reinvasion of Ukraine in February 2022 is producing ripple effects that will reverberate far beyond Ukraine for years to come, affecting issue areas and regions where...
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The Marines Have a New Ship-Killing Weapons System to Counter China
In The News
The 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment was activated in March 2021 and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Wednesday that the 12th Artillery Regiment on Okinawa will be ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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A String of Russian Failures Got Scores of Troops Killed in a Ukrainian Strike, and Moscow’s Reaction Only Made Things Worse
In The News
Andrew Metrick, a fellow with the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, said that some elements of the incident can be attributed to declining Russian mil...
By Andrew Metrick
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Japan Sells Tokyo as Us Linchpin of Security against China, Russia
In The News
Jacob Stokes, senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, called it “an incredibly important time” in Japan’s defense policy...
By Jacob Stokes
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Ukraine Zeroes In on Western Tanks in Bid to Rout Russia
In The News
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, told The Economist last month that Kyiv needs 300 tanks to achieve a decisive victory on the battlefield again...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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The Air Force Is Changing the Way It Measures Body Fat for Airmen and Guardians
In The News
While it may sound similar to the “tape test” that the service ditched in 2020, experts say that the new waist-to-height ratio may be more forgiving than its predecessor. “Fro...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Marines Have a New Ship-Killing Weapons System to Counter China
The 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment was activated in March 2021 and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Wednesday that the 12th Artillery Regiment on Okinawa will be ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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A String of Russian Failures Got Scores of Troops Killed in a Ukrainian Strike, and Moscow’s Reaction Only Made Things Worse
By Andrew Metrick
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Sharper: Integrated Deterrence
By Anna Pederson & Michael Akopian
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The Marines Have a New Ship-Killing Weapons System to Counter China
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Japan Sells Tokyo as Us Linchpin of Security against China, Russia
Jacob Stokes, senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, called it “an incredibly important time” in Japan’s defense policy...
By Jacob Stokes
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Ukraine, Japan and the Korean War’s 21st-Century Parallel
By Vance Serchuk
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What Are The Opportunities & Challenges In India-US Ties?
By Lisa Curtis
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Japan Sells Tokyo as Us Linchpin of Security against China, Russia
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The Air Force Is Changing the Way It Measures Body Fat for Airmen and Guardians
While it may sound similar to the “tape test” that the service ditched in 2020, experts say that the new waist-to-height ratio may be more forgiving than its predecessor. “Fro...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Get Ready for Fort Liberty: The Pentagon Begins Changing Confederate Base Names
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Can the Army Fill Its Ranks?
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Air Force Is Changing the Way It Measures Body Fat for Airmen and Guardians
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What to Expect of Europe-China Relations in 2023
2022 brought about a number of developments in Europe-China relations. While there was continued convergence between European and U.S. policy on China, there are still areas o...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Carisa Nietsche, Noah Barkin & Mikko Huotari
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The Political Spillover of Spain’s Unresolved Catalan Question
By Nicholas Lokker & Michael Angeloni
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The Case for Supporting Russian Civil Society, with Jamie Fly and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Jamie Fly
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What to Expect of Europe-China Relations in 2023
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How the Speaker Impasse Is Impacting U.S. National Security
Not only are those members barred from briefings, the key national security committees they would normally sit on cannot even be formed yet – including the House Intelligence ...
By Jonathan Lord
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What’s Driving an Islamic State Insurgency in Iraq and Syria?
By Jonathan Lord
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US Top Middle East Commander Tests New Model of Deterring Iran
By Jonathan Lord
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How the Speaker Impasse Is Impacting U.S. National Security
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Iranian Netizens Promote #Unity to Save Protesters From Execution
Rachel Ziemba, an Adjunct Senior Fellow, of the Energy, Economics, & Security Program discusses why petrochemicals are so important for Iran as the US toughens sanctions o...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Bolsonaro Is a ‘Big Headache’ for the Biden Administration, Analyst Says
By Rachel Ziemba
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How to Win Friends and Choke China’s Chip Supply
By Emily Kilcrease
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Iranian Netizens Promote #Unity to Save Protesters From Execution
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The China-US Quantum Race
The country leading in quantum will be able to threaten adversaries’ corporate, military, and government information infrastructure faster than an adversary can implement effe...
By Sam Howell
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Ukraine Zeroes In on Western Tanks in Bid to Rout Russia
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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The Semiconductor Madman
By Martijn Rasser
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The China-US Quantum Race
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Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent Extremism in the Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Communities
Executive Summary In recent years, the involvement of currently serving military members and law enforcement officers, as well as veterans of those two professions, in domesti...
By Carrie Cordero, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Arona Baigal & Josh Campbell
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Carrie Cordero on the Latest January 6 Trials
By Carrie Cordero
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Carrie Cordero Keynote Speech: "Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent Extremism in the Military, Veterans and Law Enforcement Communities"
By Carrie Cordero
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Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent Extremism in the Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Communities
