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A War in the Conservative Movement?: Defense Hawks vs. Budget Hawks
The conservative movement may not be able to acknowledge it yet, but it is facing a big schism in its ranks. The schism is not “establishment” versus “grassroots” or “compromi...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
How the 'Internet with Chinese Characteristics' Is Rupturing the WebChina is openly undermining the United States' vision of a free and open Internet. Motivated by maintaining the fragile balance between information control, social and politic...
By Amy Chang
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Zuckerberg’s pandering to China threatens Web’s valuesPresident Obama acknowledged Dec. 3 that the Chinese exercise of cybertheft is “indisputable.” While he encouraged American CEOs to speak out about China’s behavior, others, s...
By Amy Chang
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Why Japan’s Election MattersAmidst the worst Russian aggression since the Cold War, the seizure of large swaths of the Middle East by Islamist extremists, a teetering nuclear negotiation with Iran and a ...
By Vance Serchuk
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Talk Stealthy to Me
As the Air Force Times recently reported, the F-22 and F-35A conducted their first integrated training mission earlier this month. Several observers declared this mission, whi...
By Kelley Sayler
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How to Deal with Chinese Assertiveness: It's Time to Impose CostsChina’s reemergence as a wealthy and powerful nation is a fact. In recent decades its rise has been unprecedented, moving from the tenth-largest economy in 1990, to the sixth-...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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When Superiority Goes Wrong: Science Fiction and Offset Strategies
For all our talk about the need for military technical superiority, what if pursuit of that goal becomes our downfall? A couple of weeks ago, Bill Sweetman from Aviation Weekl...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Modi Doctrine for the Indo-Pacific Maritime RegionOnly six months into his tenure, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is breathing new life into the concept of Indo-Pacific security. Indeed, it is not too early to describe t...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Why Does the Navy Still Not Have Enough Money for New Submarines?
The Navy is beginning to increase the tempo of its drumbeat calling for additional shipbuilding money to pay for the long planned replacement for the Ohio-class ballistic miss...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Pick Your Prism
This year has been filled with multiple, competing foreign policy crises, but 2014 has also been a year of dueling historical analogies. The trend began in January, when Japan...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
A Delicate Atomic Dance: Managing the Aftermath of the Iran Nuclear TalksWith the agreement in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 on an extension of the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, policy makers will now have to turn to the equally chal...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Ilan Goldenberg
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National Security Human Capital Program
America Musn’t Neglect Its NukesEarlier this month the Pentagon released a devastating assessment of its own management of the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The report, authored by two widely respected former fo...
By Elbridge Colby
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China Scores
China is back. Nearly two centuries after it lost its traditional place at the center of Asian affairs, Beijing has begun giving shape and substance to its renewed leadership ...
By Ely Ratner
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How the United States can counter the ambitions of Russia and China
The unraveling of the Middle East under the weight of the Sunni-Shiite rivalry and the rise of the Islamic State is enough of a national security challenge to keep the United ...
By Ely Ratner
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Smart Hawks
This point is becoming increasingly accepted in defense circles. Defense experts at places like Washington’s Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments have been sounding ...
By Elbridge Colby & Eric Sayers
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Paul Scharre and Michael Horowitz on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systemshen the robots start thinking for themselves in the movies or on TV, it’s never a good sign for the humans. Whether the setting is Earth or Caprica, letting robots think and g...
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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Time to govern
The midterm election handed control of Congress to the party whose traditional strength is national security. In developing its foreign policy agenda, the incoming Republican ...
By Elbridge Colby & Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Trading UpLooking ahead to the next Congress, Republicans on Capitol Hill see trade as one issue where they actually, maybe, possibly might be able to compromise with the White House. I...
By Ely Ratner
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The Myth of the Militarization of America's Africa Policy
After almost fifteen years of unprecedented political stabilization and economic development in Africa, the ravages of Ebola and a spike in military coups in places like Burki...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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Realism Returns
The most remarkable aspect of Senator Rand Paul’s “conservative realism” speech on October 23 in New York was that it was seen as remarkable at all. For the fact is that, desp...
By Elbridge Colby