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Afghanistan Strategy on Stage: Five Key Questions for the Administration
The upcoming congressional testimony of the administration’s national security team on Afghanistan may be the most pivotal since September 2007, when General David Petraeus an...
By John A. Nagl & Richard Fontaine
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Dear Pentagon: It’s Not How Big Your Budget Is. It’s How You Use It.
Commentary
Over the past two months, unusually public negotiations between the White House and the U.S. Department of Defense on the 2020 defense budget request have bounced from $733 bi...
By Susanna V. Blume
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If Trump Wants to Get Out of Syria, He Should Strike a Deal With Russia
Commentary
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American forces from Syria is a mistake. But if he insists on going ahead with it, the best option for the United States is ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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What’s Worse Than Brexit? This.
Commentary
It’s official: the delayed parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s initial Brexit deal with the European Union is now scheduled for Jan. 15. May has had a brutal co...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Why China’s Military Wants to Beat the US to a Next-Gen Cell Network
Commentary
The race for 5G — the next-generation cell-network technology that promises high speed, low latency, and high throughput — has emerged as a new frontier of rivalry in U.S.-Chi...
By Elsa B. Kania
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To Retain Today’s Talent, the DoD Must Support Dual-Professional Couples
Commentary
Talent management in the Department of Defense has received a great deal of critical attention over the last few years, but much of this thinking has centered on how the milit...
By Tom Barron
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A New Cold War Has Begun
Commentary
In June 2005, I published a cover story in the Atlantic, “How We Would Fight China.” I wrote that, “The American military contest with China … will define the twenty-first cen...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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How to Hit Russia Where It Hurts
Commentary
Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, its war in eastern Ukraine, its interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and other aggressive acts against the United States an...
By Peter Harrell
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A Question of Statecraft
Commentary
Any Western policymaker working in the field of national security over the past decade has had to grapple with the same disheartening reality: the structures and processes tha...
By Julianne Smith
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Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
The decision by President Trump to withdraw 7,000 of the roughly 14,000 American troops left in Afghanistan, possibly by summer, has raised new concerns about his impulsive be...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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In a single tweet, Trump destroys U.S. policy in the Middle East
Commentary
With his decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria, President Trump hands a huge New Year’s gift to President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamic State, the Kremlin and Tehran....
By Victoria Nuland
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Quantum Hegemony
Podcast
China is positioning itself as a powerhouse in quantum science, posing a challenge to U.S. national security and innovation leadership. Elsa B. Kania, an Adjunct Fellow at CNA...
By Elsa B. Kania, John Costello & Paul Scharre
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America’s Yo-Yo Diet in the Middle East
Commentary
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria is a mistake. But unlike so many of his other ill-considered moves, this one is completely conventiona...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Iran Nuclear Negotiations
Podcast
Ambassador Wendy Sherman discusses her unlikely career, which began as an advocate for women's issues. Then, she went into politics, and eventually wound up at the State Depar...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Wendy Sherman
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Amb. Ian Bond on Brexit and What's Next for Europe
Podcast
Former Ambassador Ian Bond sits down with Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss his perspective on Brexit and what the future holds for the transatlantic relat...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Ian Bond
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In an Era of Divided Government, China Can Unite
The televised bickering between President Trump and top Democratic leaders illustrates that, if political leaders find any consensus in 2019, it won’t be on the border wall. N...
By Richard Fontaine
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Congress must face reality in exposing Russian aggression
The shakeup of members of the new Congress provides an opportunity for changing United States foreign policy. After two years of criticizing much of what the Trump administrat...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Amanda Sloat on Brexit
Podcast
Dr. Amanda Sloat, the Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at Brookings and DC’s Brexit expert, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Rachel Rizzo to discuss Brexit: how it happened, why ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Rachel Rizzo & Dr. Amanda Sloat
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China’s Non-Traditional Espionage Against the United States: The Threat and Potential Policy Responses
Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Honorable Members of the Committee, it is a pleasure to be invited to speak to you today about one of the most important trade...
By Peter Harrell
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The Eroding Balance of Terror
Commentary
Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars,” the American nuclear strategist Bernard Brodie wrote in 1946. “From now on its chief purpose mu...
By Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr.
