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Contesting China’s Facts on New Ground
China’s aggressive actions to contest its excessive territorial claims in the South China Sea received a welcome if worrisome dose of realism this month, as new satellite imag...
By Shawn Brimley
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The Foreign Policy Essay: The South Korean Sentry—A “Killer Robot” to Prevent WarA new sentry guards the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. It is South Korea’s SGR-A1, a robot with the ability to autonomously identify and destroy targets....
By Alexander Velez-Green
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Robots at War and the Quality of QuantityThe U.S. Department of Defense has launched the search for a “third offset strategy,” an approach to sustain U.S. military technological superiority against potential adversar...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Note to Ash Carter: Make the Rebalance a RealityThe 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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Defense / Technology & National Security
Release the dronesThis 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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National Security Human Capital Program
Ash Carter: Invest in the 3rd Offset StrategyAshton 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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Defense / Technology & National Security
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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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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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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Technology & National Security
The Theory Of Intersectionality Can Make Cybersecurity Collaboration RealSymbolically, 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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
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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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Asia’s Rise Is Rooted in Confucian ValuesOne 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