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Release the drones
This week, the Obama administration announced a new policy loosening export restrictions for military and commercial drones. This policy shift represents a responsible first s...
By Kelley Sayler, Paul Scharre & Van Jackson
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Note to Ash Carter: Make the Rebalance a Reality
The new secretary of defense needs to make the United States’ “rebalance to the Asia-Pacific” an indisputable fact. Even in the face of global challenges and constrained resou...
By Alexander Sullivan, Patrick M. Cronin & Van Jackson
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Ash Carter: Invest in the 3rd Offset Strategy
Ashton Carter, the newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of Defense, will need to articulate his vision of how he intends to lead the Pentagon over the next two years. He would do ...
By Paul Scharre, Shawn Brimley & Jerry Hendrix
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The Key to a Nuclear Agreement with Iran? The Window of Vulnerability
For the past year, the debate on Iran’s nuclear program has focused far too much on the various technical components without examining the sum of its parts. The objective for ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Putin and the Hermit Kingdom
If the rumors are true, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia in May during a commemoration of World War II in Moscow. Russian Ambassador to North Korea Alexander ...
By Van Jackson
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Moscow and Pyongyang: From Disdain to Partnership?
A few weeks ago, the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said that Moscow and Pyongyang planned to “deepen political, economic and military co...
By Richard Weitz
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The Theory Of Intersectionality Can Make Cybersecurity Collaboration Real
Symbolically, the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection was about the White House reaching out to Silicon Valley and the need for collaboration between g...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Between a Roomba and a Terminator: What is Autonomy?
Department of Defense leaders have stated that robotics and autonomous systems will be a key part of a new “offset strategy” to sustain American military d...
By Paul Scharre
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Nigerian President to U.S. Government: Send Silver Bullets
Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, challenged the American people to put up or shut up last week when he toldthe Wall Street Journal that he has repeatedly and fruitlessl...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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How Will America React When One of Its Companies is Sanctioned?
For the past decade, the United States has led an unprecedented revolution in the use of targeted sanctions. Over the past week alone, President Obama has emphasized the poten...
By Peter Harrell
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The Foreign Policy Essay: A Nuclear Asia?
For all the focus on maritime disputes in the South and East China Seas, there is an even greater peril in Asia that deserves attention: the rising salience of nuclear weapons...
By Elbridge Colby
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Just Another Likely Russian Tactical Move
The cease-fire agreed to on Thursday by the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France might represent a positive step on the road toward ending the year-long conflict in ...
By Jacob Stokes
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If the Iran Nuke Talks Fail...
What if the nuclear talks with Iran completely break down at some point, as quite a few people in Congress and the Washington policy community seem to want? We believe the res...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Robert D. Kaplan
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How to bankrupt the Islamic State
As Congress begins to debate a new resolution endorsing the U.S. use of military force against the Islamic State (ISIS), policymakers also need to stay focused on another key ...
By Peter Harrell
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Countering Putin’s Grand Strategy
The heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine this week isn’t the only reason to be skeptical about the prospects for the peace summit that began Wednesday in Minsk, Belarus. Even if ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Can We Finally Get an AUMF Right?
On Wednesday the White House sent legislative text to the Senate and House of Representatives that would authorize military force against the self-declared Islamic State, init...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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Asia’s Rise Is Rooted in Confucian Values
One of the striking elements of “The Governance of China,” a book published this past fall in several languages (including English) by Chinese President Xi Jinping , was his r...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Obama's Defense-Spending Charade
The president is trying to lure conservatives into a mousetrap with an offer of a topline increase in defense spending in return for removing the spending caps put in place by...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Obama's National Security Strategy: A Policy of ‘Sustainment’
Commentary
Perhaps the most important function of any National Security Strategy (NSS) comes in articulating an administration’s worldview, rather than detailing a specific to-do list. T...
By Jacob Stokes
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The Lowdown on Obama's New National Security Strategy
A little less than a year ago, my colleague Jacob Stokes and I wrote a piece for Politico Magazine highlighting some of the challenges facing those drafting the next National ...
By Julianne Smith
