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Beware The Void Under Tyranny
With fighting near the end between the armies of two presidential aspirants in Ivory Coast, that country is at the bottom of a descent that began in 1993 with the death of the...
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Messages From a Libyan Intervention
Pundits around the world have been debating the meaning of the US intervention in Libya since the first bombs began falling last week. Does Libya mark a new direction in US f...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Surgical Financial Strikes Can Oust Gaddafi
Over the past week the Libyan no-fly zone has prevented Muammer Gaddafi from killing innocent civilians, but not forced him from power. None of the long-term options for Libya...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Refocus Mideast Presence
The popular upheavals shaking the established political order in the Middle East may throw U.S. defense strategy in the region into disarray. In the span of barely two months,...
By Brian Burton
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The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun
Despite the military drama unfolding in Libya, the Middle East is only beginning to unravel. American policy-makers have been spoiled by events in Tunisia and Egypt, both of w...
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The Ties that Bind? U.S.–Indian Values-based Cooperation
CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine co-authored a Washington Quarterly article about the evolution of U.S.-India relations. Both New Delhi and Washington have rhetorically inv...
By Richard Fontaine
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Does the World Belong in Libya's War?
President Barack Obama's decision to militarily intervene in Libya is already off to a good start. I say this as someone who has been deeply skeptical of intervention. I feare...
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Should the U.S. Move Against Qaddafi? A Logical, But Difficult, Step
The administration is right to ratchet up the pressure on Colonel Qaddafi and his brutal regime. Talking of establishing a no-flight zone, repositioning American military asse...
By Richard Fontaine
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Oman's Renaissance Man
The democratic upheaval across the Arab world has now become so profound and overwhelming -- so unstoppable -- as to engulf arguably the least oppressive and most competent au...
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Arab Democracy And The Return of The Mediterranean World
With the toppling of autocratic regimes in Egypt and Tunisia - and other Arab dictators, such as Libya's, on the ropes - some have euphorically announced the arrival of democr...
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Cyber Sanity
Despite a ballooning federal debt and intense pressures on the federal budget, cyber security has become Washington’s new growth industry. The U.S. government has spent over $...
By Kristin M. Lord & Travis Sharp
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America Primed
The past century has seen a multi-polar world through the end of World War II, a bipolar world through the end of the Cold War and a dissipating unipolar world since. Economic...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The ‘Long War’ May Be Getting Shorter
It is hard to tell when momentum shifts in a counterinsurgency campaign, but there is increasing evidence that Afghanistan is moving in a more positive direction than many ana...
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Go Inside The $56 Billion ‘Black’ Budget
The Pentagon dropped its $533 billion budget this week. Some line items get a thorough public debate — like stealth jet engines and soldier health care. Others have opaque nam...
By Travis Sharp
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The Dangers of Korean Unification
While the popular uprisings in Egypt and the Middle East are unlikely to infect North Korea, they are still a reminder that sudden change is always possible. With this in mind...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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From Tahrir to Tiananmen
For the first time in memory, places like Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen are starting to understand what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote that "when the people fear their gover...
By Abraham M. Denmark
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One Small Revolution
The West stands captivated by Tunisia, where a month of peaceful protests by secular working- and middle-class Arabs has toppled a dictator, raising hopes that this North Afri...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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What the U.S. and Other Democracies Must Make Clear to China
When Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington this week, there will be lots of ruffles and flourishes. Both governments will refer to the "positive, cooperative and compr...
By Daniel Kliman
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The Right Cuts
"To amass military power without regard to our economic capacity would be to defend ourselves against one kind of disaster by inviting another," said U.S. President Dwight D. ...
By Travis Sharp, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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We Need an Indian Civilian Surge
President Barack Obama visits India this weekend amid high expectations for the future of the U.S.-India relationship. Yet of the many issues that will be on his plate -- civi...
By Richard Fontaine