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Time to Boost US Alliance, Not Weaken It
As Australia and the US reflect on the 60th anniversary of their alliance, the two governments have announced steps to strengthen their security ties. Enhancing joint exercise...
By Richard Fontaine
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Pentagon Must Reshape Future Role of Private Contractors
The recent report by the U.S. Commission on Wartime Contracting, which examined contracting abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan, understandably focused on the loss of up to $60 bil...
By Richard Fontaine
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India's Arab Spring Opportunity
The fall of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi stands as the latest, most dramatic episode in the explosive changes roiling today’s Middle East. As Libyans—and their counterparts in Egyp...
By Richard Fontaine
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Preserving Progress: Transitioning Authority And Implementing The Strategic Framework Agreement
Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcomittee on the Middle East and South Asia on June 23, 2011. Font...
By Richard Fontaine
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Video: Revolution In The Middle East: Democracy In The Digital Domain
CNAS CEO Nathanial Fick gives opening remarks at the CNAS Fifth Annual Conference on June 2, 2011. Following his remarks is the roundtable discussion, "Reveloution In The Mid...
By Colin H. Kahl, Nathaniel C. Fick & Richard Fontaine
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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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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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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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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
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Rejuvenating Strategic Partnership
In 1998, then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee asserted that India and the United States were "natural allies in the quest for a better future for the world in the 21st cen...
By Richard Fontaine
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Richard Fontaine on Natural Allies: A Blueprint for the Future of U.S.-India Relations
In this exclusive interview, CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine, co-author of the new CNAS report Natural Allies: A Blueprint for the Future of U.S.-India Relations, talks ab...
By Richard Fontaine
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National Security Human Capital Program
Contracting in Combat Zones: Who Are Our Subcontractors?CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine testified on the problems associated with contracting in conflicts and areas for reform before the U.S. Congressional Committee on Oversigh...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Managing North Korea: The Need for Coordination between Washington and SeoulAs the hundreds of American and South Korean officials involved in formulating and executing policy towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea over the years will attes...
By Richard Fontaine
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America Needs an Internet Agenda
Google's announcement that it has stopped censoring results from its Chinese search engine has captured global attention, but developments on the Internet freedom front are co...
By Richard Fontaine
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Yemen's coming disaster
The Nigerian Islamist who allegedly attempted to detonate a bomb on a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has brought Yemen once again into the spotlig...
By Andrew M. Exum & Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The U.S.-ROK Alliance in the 21st CenturyThe U.S.-ROK Alliance in the 21st Century, published by the Korea Institute for National Unification in December 2009, explores the bilateral relationship between the United S...
By Abraham M. Denmark & Richard Fontaine
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Obama’s Opportunity with India
In hosting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week for the first state visit of his administration, President Barack Obama can claim to be taking India seriously as a p...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trading Up in the Taiwan Strait
In the year and a half since President Ma Ying-jeou took office in Taipei, the world has witnessed an unprecedented rapprochement between China and Taiwan. The two sides have ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Counterintuitive Counterinsurgency
As the Obama administration debates whether to stick with the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan, opponents point to that nation's flawed presidential election as a re...
By John A. Nagl & Richard Fontaine