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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Trouble at sea reveals the new shape of China’s foreign policyChina’s recent moves in the East and South China Seas – various military deployments, policy proclamations, provocative naval maneuvers and rhetorical stridency – pose serious...
By Kurt Campbell
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National Security Human Capital Program
Beyond UCLASS: Preparing the Navy for Next Generation WarfareThe United States is the world’s leading military power in large part because it employs both the best military technologies in the world and the best-trained force to effecti...
By Michael Horowitz
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Putin’s South American Trip Hides Russia’s Strategic Weaknesses
Although Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to South America earlier this month was overshadowed by events in Ukraine and the Middle East, it did garner considerable att...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
In Japan’s defense change, context is everythingWASHINGTON/HONOLULU – The announcement by Japan’s government that it will reinterpret the country’s constitution and permit a greater range of military activity has evoked rea...
By Richard Fontaine
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Iran's Highly Enriched Bargaining Chip
As talks over Iran's disputed nuclear program enter the home stretch, Tehran has placed a major obstacle in the way of a diplomatic solution: insistence on an industrial-scale...
By Colin H. Kahl
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National Security Human Capital Program
Getting Unmanned Naval Aviation RightThe issue of when and how the U.S. Armed Forces fully integrate unmanned and increasingly autonomous surveillance and strike platforms into their inventory is one of the most ...
By Shawn Brimley
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
The Case for U.S. Arms Sales to VietnamWhen Beijing built a deep-sea drilling platform squarely in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone earlier this summer, it once again flouted widely accepted rules and sought to ex...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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For Afghanistan Election, After Kerry Deal Comes the Hard Part
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s shuttle diplomacy in Kabul this weekend paved the way to resolving Afghanistan’s current election crisis, while helping to establish a pot...
By Richard Weitz
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Arabs do care about Gaza
Since the Arab uprisings began in late 2010, Palestine has seemed to recede to the margins of Arab discourse. The agenda has been understandably dominated by intensely urgent ...
By Marc Lynch
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National Security Human Capital Program
A New U.S. Military Would Be an Army of AdvisersThe United States has an extraordinary ability to defeat any conventional armed force on the planet; our tanks, ships and planes will make short work of any enemy in frontal w...
By John A. Nagl
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Non-Academic Job Searches in DC – What to Know
Many graduate students are expanding their job searches outside the academy. As an advisor, I’m horribly underprepared at offering job advice outside of the academic job mark...
By Katherine Kidder
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When it comes to oil exports, all our fears are old fears
Are you still driving a Pinto? Smoking in the office and wearing polyester bellbottoms? Probably not, because we don’t live in the 1970s any more. So why does our oil export p...
By Peter Gardett
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National Security Human Capital Program
The Army’s next enemy? Peace.Retired Army Lt. Gen. David W. Barno is a senior fellow and co-director of the Responsible Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security. From 2003 to 2005, he ser...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Why Moldova Urgently Matters
"NATO's Article 5 offers little protection against Vladimir Putin's Russia," Iulian Fota, Romania's presidential national security adviser, told me on a recent visit to Buchar...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Autonomy, “Killer Robots,” and Human Control in the Use of Force – Part IIIn a recent post , I covered how autonomy is currently used in weapons and what is different about potential future autonomous weapons that would select and engage targets on ...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Autonomy, “Killer Robots,” and Human Control in the Use of Force – Part IIn May of this year, the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons(CCW) held the first multilateral discussions on autonomous weapons or, as activists like to ...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
How worried should U.S. policymakers be about nuclear blackmail?In recent years, a new generation of scholars has increasingly turned to sophisticated statistical methods to tackle decades-old questions regarding the causes and consequence...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Xi’s Visit Brings No Breakthrough in China-South Korea TiesLast week’s China-South Korea summit confirmed the good relations between Beijing and Seoul under Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye. When t...
By Richard Weitz
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Have We Hit Peak America?
In other words, a greater number of Americans are worried about diminishing U.S. influence today than in the face of feared Soviet technological superiority in the late 1950s,...
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China’s territorial advances must be kept in check by the United StatesThis month, China will participate for the first time in the U.S.-led Rim of the Pacific naval exercise, better known as RIMPAC. Four Chinese navy ships, including a destroyer...
By Ely Ratner & Michèle Flournoy