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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Time to Actively Deter North KoreaIt is only a matter of time before North Korea flaunts its ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead, deploy intercontinental ballistic missiles and road-mobile missile launche...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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National Security Human Capital / Middle East Security
Maliki Isn’t The Problem. Oil Is.During the past few days, the United States strategy for addressing the escalating violence in Iraq has emphasized diplomacy to achieve political reconciliation. The Obama adm...
By Nora Bensahel
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Obama repeats his Iraq mistake in AfghanistanAs the Obama administration grapples with how to respond to the terrorist takeover of northern Iraq, one consequence of the crisis should be clear: There is an urgent need to ...
By Vance Serchuk
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Iraq and the Fall of Saigon
For Americans of a certain age, the near-collapse of the U.S.-trained Iraqi Army and the possibility of an ISIS takeover of Baghdad has disturbing similarities to the rout of ...
By USA (Ret.) & Robert Killebrew
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Learning From Iraq to Prepare for Afghanistan’s Post-2016 FutureIn a revealing quirk of history, the crisis in Iraq caused by the sudden onslaught of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) can help us better understand possible scenari...
By Richard Weitz
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No, Obama Didn’t Lose Iraq
The surprising advances by jihadists in northern and western Iraq have produced at least one unsurprising result: accusations that President Obama’s “abandonment” of Iraq is r...
By Colin H. Kahl
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How can the U.S. help Maliki when Maliki’s the problem?
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) genuinely stunning capture of Mosul, and advances across Iraq, look like a real turning point in regional politics. Even if the te...
By Marc Lynch
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Linking U.S. Statecraft to Grand Strategy
Commentary
Americans – both elites and the public – are currently engaged in a heated debate about the future direction of U.S. foreign policy. As we outlined in our previous piece, the ...
By Julianne Smith & Jacob Stokes
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Iraq veteran: This is not what my friends fought and died for
For a veteran of the fighting there—and proponent of the counterinsurgency strategy that provided a chance for the country to stabilize—watching the recent unraveling of Iraq ...
By John A. Nagl
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Plan to Counter Chinese AggressionWith China drilling for oil in contested waters off Vietnam and building artificial islands off the Philippines, U.S. policy clearly isn't curbing Beijing's ambitions to redra...
By Ely Ratner
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National Security Human Capital
Rebuilding Bipartisan Consensus on National SecurityPolitics, despite the saying, has never really stopped at the water’s edge. But these days, it seems, policymakers cannot even get to the beach before the sniping begins. The ...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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How America Must Lead
Recently, foreign policy watchers have been engaged in a frantic bout of hand-wringing over whether America will continue to play the role of global leader. Amid that discussi...
By Jacob Stokes & Julianne Smith
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Risky Business: Why Iran's Nuclear Demands Could Backfire
This week, Iranian and U.S. diplomats raced to Geneva for unscheduled, high-level bilateral talks. The news might have come as a surprise, but it shouldn’t have. The deadline ...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Europe's Deep Right-Wing Logic
It is undeniable that the right wing is ascendant in Europe. While leftist parties did well here and there in recent elections to the European Parliament, the story over recen...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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National Security Human Capital
70 Years After D-Day, the Legacy of WWII Veterans Carries OnThe crash of naval gunfire and aerial bombing grew louder. His Higgins boat, one of thousands in the first wave, tossed in the Channel toward the overcast beaches of Normandy ...
By Chris Kolenda
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Budding Ocean EmpireI am flattered by Nilanthi Samaranayake’s lengthy and respectful treatment of my March 2009 Foreign Affairs cover story about the importance of the Indian Ocean, on the articl...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Finding a Big Data "Safe Space" for the Energy Sector
The oil industry was one of the original "smart" industries, but its tradition of leadership in using data to improve operations, enhance security and serve markets has been d...
By Peter Gardett
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
What to Listen for in Obama's Warsaw speechPresident Barack Obama’s speech Wednesday in Warsaw will have three distinct audiences: the people of Poland and other countries in Central and Eastern Europe who have been se...
By Julianne Smith
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Moneyballing Obama's Foreign PolicyPresident Obama is feeling defensive about his foreign policy. And he is keen to use every metaphor in his toolbox to explain it. In his commencement address last week at West...
By Michael Horowitz
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How to Fix the VA
President Barack Obama had no choice but to accept Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki’s resignation. The VA inspector general’s interim report issued this week contained ...
By Phillip Carter
