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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Vietnam: From enemy to partner(CNN) – Traveling to Vietnam with Sen. John McCain a few years ago, it was clear to me just how far the relationship between two former enemies had come. Viewing the dark cel...
By Richard Fontaine
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National Security Human Capital
Naysayers Are Learning the Wrong Lessons About the Littoral Combat ShipRecently, the distinguished national security practitioner and analyst Lawrence Korb, whom I hold in the highest professional regard, detailed four lessons from the saga of th...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Fighting Terrorism in Syria: It's More Than ISIS
The fact of the matter is that although the United States has provided military assistance to individual Syrian armed opposition groups led by “trusted commanders” since 2012,...
By Nicholas Heras
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The liberal international order is under fire. The United States must defend it.
Hardly a day goes by without evidence that the liberal international order of the past seven decades is being eroded. China and Russia are attempting to fashion a world in the...
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Defense / National Security Human Capital
The DIUx Is Dead. Long Live The DIUx.Defense Secretary Ash Carter launched his high-profile Silicon Valley outpost a year ago to great fanfare and high expectations. Less than a year later, he has completely over...
By Ben FitzGerald & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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National Security Human Capital
Observations on Global Military PostureThe secretary of defense has outsized influence over America’s global network of bases, the number of military personnel stationed overseas, and the frequency of internation...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Shawn Brimley
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Defense / Middle East Security
From the Bottom, Up: A Strategy for U.S. Military Support to Syria’s Armed OppositionAs negotiations continue to uphold a teetering ceasefire in Syria, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Middle East Security Program researcher Nicholas Heras has written...
By Nicholas Heras
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Understanding the Promise — and Limits — of Sanctions
Last week, David Francis and Lara Jakes published a report for Foreign Policy, titled “Sanctions Are a Failure… Let’s Admit That,” on the feeling in Washington that recent a...
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Capitalize on native speakers of the digital languages
One divide in the United States is becoming increasingly clear — the split between those who can remember their first encounter with digital technology and those who cannot. F...
By Jacqueline Parziale
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How Islam Created Europe
Europe was essentially defined by Islam. And Islam is redefining it now. For centuries in early and middle antiquity, Europe meant the world surrounding the Mediterranean, or ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Notable & Quotable: Anarchy in the 21st Century
From foreign-affairs analyst Robert D. Kaplan's "The Post-Imperial Moment: Vulgar, populist anarchy will define the twenty-first century" in the May-June issue of the National...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Brexit Will Shatter Europe
On June 23, the United Kingdom will hold a referendum that will determine whether it remains a member of the European Union. Arguments abound in both the pro- and anti...
By Michelle Shevin-Coetzee & Rachel Rizzo
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How China Sees World OrderChina's rapid ascent to great-power status has, more than any other international development, raised concerns about the future of the liberal international order. Forged in t...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper & Richard Fontaine
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What the US Gives Its Mideast Partners Isn’t Always What They Need
As President Obama heads to Saudi Arabia later this week for a summit with Gulf Cooperation Council leaders, the American public and policymakers are generally united in their...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Peter Kirechu
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Taking the Fight to "ISILSTAN": Displacing and Replacing ISIL in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq
More so than at any time in recent history, last month demonstrated the dichotomous nature of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) current situation. On the one h...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Paul Scharre
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Escaping the No Man's Land of Defense Reform
Defense reform — frequently relegated to a no man’s land somewhere between wonkish dreams and third-rail issues — has reappeared as the issue du jour. Secretary of Defense Ash...
By Katherine Kidder, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Shawn Brimley
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What ISIS Wants: Punishing Refugees for Brussels
On Tuesday, March 22, twin explosions at the Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek Metro Station rocked Belgium’s capital city of Brussels, killing at least thirty and injuring 230. T...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Freedom for Me—But Not for Thee
When historians in future decades ponder America’s wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the name of Andrew J. Bacevich, a West Point graduate, retired Army colonel and professor emeritus...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Protecting the Rule of Law on the South China SeaLater this year, The Hague is expected to render its decision in a dispute over China’s land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea. Most observers expect the court to rul...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Technology & National Security
Reforming Acquisitions and the Need for SpeedThis month, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, unveiled new acquisition reform legislation. The draft stand-alone bill is noteworthy from a ...
By Alexandra Sander, Ben FitzGerald & Jacqueline Parziale