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Time clock for deal with Iran
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, the P5+1, and Iran are in overtime negotiations to reach a nuclear agreement, after failing to craft one in ...
By Ellie Maruyama
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Commentary: Swarming the BattlefieldThe US Department of Defense has launched a long-range research and development planning effort, and DoD leaders have stated that robotics and autonomous systems will be a cri...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Local Flavor: What Asia’s Hedging Trend Tells Us about Asia, and StrategyWhen modern scholars and strategists discuss trends as a hook to some larger observation or policy argument, they typically do so with an eye to trends at the global level — t...
By Van Jackson
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Give democratic Tunisia the U.S. support it needs and deserves
Tunisia is rightly hailed as the lone success story of the Arab Spring: the only country that has threaded a path from the uprisings of 2011 to genuine multiparty democracy to...
By Vance Serchuk
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The South will Rise Again
Syria’s civil war is heading toward a point of no return. Advances by the Islamic State (IS) in eastern and northern Syria and the resurgence of other jihadi organizations in ...
By Dafna Rand & Nicholas Heras
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Warming to Iran
Foreign policy is about necessity, not desire. And multiple necessities have been driving the United States and Iran toward a détente of sorts. Indeed, the American-Iranian es...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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America Is Fated to Lead
THE SLEEP of any president, prime minister or statesman is haunted by what ifs. What if I had only fired that defense secretary sooner, or replaced that general in Iraq with t...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Welcome to China and America's Nuclear NightmareFor all the focus on maritime disputes in the South and East China Seas, there is an even greater peril in Asia that deserves attention. It is the rising salience of nuclear w...
By Elbridge Colby
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COLUMN-Russia Sanctions: Beware the Blowback
In recent days, the U.S. Congress has moved aggressively to increase the economic pain inflicted on Russia in punishment for its brazen destabilization of easternUkraine and C...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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No need for new sanctions on Iran
As the 113th Congress wraps up and the new Congress prepares for the start of 2015 it is evident that one of the central early debates on foreign policy will revolve around ne...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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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