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A New Vision For The Guard, Reserves
It is time for fundamental change in the post-9/11 National Guard and reserves. It is also time to embrace the lessons of the past nine years and start thinking about a reserv...
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The Humanist In The Foxhole
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR, who died last week at age 96 at his home in England, was one of the great minor men of the 20th century. A hero for helping undermine the German occupati...
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When Social Networks Become Tools of Oppression: Jillian C. York
When Syria’s government unblocked Facebook, YouTube and Blogspot in February, many activists saw the move as an overture to protesters, possibly one offering a semblance of th...
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How China, U.S. See Each Other at Sea
Maritime security, especially in the East and South China Sea, remains high on the agenda of China, the United States, Japan and other regional actors. Incidents over the pas...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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China's Port in Pakistan?
Pakistani officials have announced that the Chinese look favorably on taking over the operation of the Arabian Sea port of Gwadar close to the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz...
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Getting the CIA and DOD in Sync
President Barack Obama’s reshuffling of his national security team signals that the White House is likely to continue focusing heavily on its counterterrorism efforts in the M...
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A New Kind Of Defense
The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant U.S. victory to date in the war on terrorism. Its full consequences may not be known for months or even years, but the ...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Stop Trying to Renegotiate the SOFA
Over the past few weeks, top U.S. officials have started to publicly press the Iraqi government to decide whether it will allow thousands of American troops to stay in the cou...
By Brian Burton
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Challenges for Obama's New National Security Team are Huge
President Barack Obama's national security shake-up will pit some of America's most able practitioners against some of the nation's most intractable challenges. The forceful, ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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After Gates: Asymmetric Threats
When Robert Gates began his service as U.S. secretary of defense, his priorities were clear: "Iraq, Iraq and Iraq," as he said at his Senate confirmation hearing. The priority...
By John A. Nagl
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After Bashar al-Assad, the Deluge
The late Princeton scholar Philip K. Hitti called Greater Syria -- the historical antecedent of the modern republic -- "the largest small country on the map, microscopic in si...
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As Debt Grows, So Does U.S. Exposure to Attack
On Wednesday, President Obama grabbed onto one of the most highly charged issues in American politics: deficit reduction. The president’s speech offered a sensible way forward...
By Travis Sharp
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Twilight of a Strongman
Over the past decade, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been the quintessential U.S. ally in the Middle East -- a useful, mercurial dictator who rules through a combinat...
By Richard Fontaine
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Why It's Hard For Strongmen To Leave
By any rational standard, it would seem that the fighting and power struggles in the Ivory Coast, Libya, and Yemen should have been over weeks ago. Maybe soon they all will be...
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Military Spending Must Be Part of the Deficit Debate
The budget compromise reached by the White House and Congress this weekend included a "historic amount of cuts," as House Speaker John Boehner and Senate majority leader Harry...
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Japan’s New Deal Opportunity
Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered office in the midst of an historic internal disaster, the Great Depression. But although FDR exuded the confidence to inspire a nation, he l...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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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