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The Right Way to Cut Pentagon Spending
Whether or not Congress avoids sequestration by March 1, defense spending will likely be cut by at least 10% over the next decade. As 20% of the federal budget and 50% of disc...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Mexican oil, Chinese drilling, Japanese nuclear: Energy trends to watch in 2013
Energy issues ranked among the top international headlines in 2012 – from reports that the United States is on track to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer o...
By Will Rogers
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Rescind North Korea's license to provoke
"Even if you know the way," an ancient Korean proverb advises, "ask one more time." If North Korea's latest cycle of misdeeds, followed by international censure, followed by m...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Final Draft
Forty years ago Sunday -- on January 27, 1973, the same day the United States signed the Paris Accords ending its involvement in the Vietnam War -- then-Secretary of Defense M...
By Phillip Carter
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The French Connection
French forces launched a military offensive last week in Mali to push back Islamic militants and help the nascent government assert control in the northern part of that former...
By Phillip Carter
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U.S. Must Keep Planning Realistic for Arctic 'Opening'
The Arctic is melting faster than anyone predicted. The World Meteorological Organization announced that ice melt in the Arctic reached a new record in 2012 when an area of ic...
By Will Rogers
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A 'Zero Option' for Afghanistan
Recent reports suggest that the White House is looking at troop options ranging from 3,000 to as many as 15,000 stay-behind troops. Many think that the final figure will be we...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Asia's Pivotal PowerA resurgent Asian nation has just elevated hawkish nationalists to the pinnacle of power. Its maritime conflicts with neighbors raise the risk of military confrontation along ...
By Richard Fontaine
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For Secretaries of Defense and State, Democrats’ Short list is Far Too Short
If the names being bandied about to fill the top jobs at the State Department and the Pentagon sound familiar, they should. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts was Hillary Rodha...
By Yochi Dreazen
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American Decline and the Liberal Order
The national conversation about America’s potential “decline,” however defined, tends to rely on an understanding in which power is conceptualized in simple metrics rather tha...
By Richard Fontaine
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Iraq in Hindsight: Views on the U.S. Withdrawal
In Iraq in Hindsight: Views on the U.S. Withdrawal, Emma Sky offers a pointed critique of U.S. policy over the last decade, arguing that valuable lessons can be learned from t...
By Emma Sky
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North Korea hits its mark
North Korea’s successful missile launch now presents Pyongyang as on the cusp of joining the elite club of nations with nuclear-armed Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Global Swing States and European Strategy
A new European Global Strategy must account for one of the most important geopolitical trends of the early 21st century: the growing influence of emerging market democracies i...
By Daniel Kliman & Richard Fontaine
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How to Fight in Afghanistan With Fewer U.S. Troops
Kimberly and Frederick W. Kagan’s Nov. 23 commentary, arguing for a force of 30,000 or more Americans in Afghanistan after 2014 [“What we’ll need in Afghanistan,” Sunday Opini...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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US energy: What's oil production got to do with national security?
The American energy revolution is starting to come into focus. Technological breakthroughs in shale gas and tight oil production are poised to make the United States — not Sau...
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How U.S. Can Help Avert Asia Crisis
Mounting tensions over the East and South China Seas are threatening to torpedo the Asian Century. China and the Philippines locked horns near Scarborough Shoal this past spri...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Questioning the Brass
OVER the last 11 years, as we fought an unnecessary war in Iraq and an unnecessarily long one in Afghanistan, the civilian American leadership has been thoroughly — and justly...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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A New Moral Compact
As our nation enters its second decade of armed conflict overseas, it is appropriate to reflect on the moral compact between our government, our people, and our soldiers. Elev...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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We Aren't Victims
There are now nearly 2.5 million veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. This new generation joins earlier cohorts of veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Col...
By Phillip Carter
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Brace Yourself
The United States should get ready to go off the fiscal cliff. Without congressional action, broad tax increases and spending cuts will automatically take effect on January 2....
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)