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Putting Peace Out of Reach
Despite the past week of violence that rocked Afghanistan, including a wave of major Taliban attacks on Afghan security forces, the Trump administration appears to still be ho...
By Stephen Tankel
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Washington Has a Bad Case of China ADHD
Commentary
As global attention fixes on the Trump administration’s North Korea and Iran policies, the White House is preparing for another consequential policy shift that’s gone almost u...
By Daniel Kliman
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Podcast
National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Women in National Security: Kate BatemanKate Bateman is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. Bateman was the lead author...
By Kate Bateman & Rachel Rizzo
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
Want to Honor the Vets? Go See This Movie.Ancient Greeks knew war intimately, thanks to frequent conflict at the time and norms about military service that existed back then. Despite or maybe because of this intimacy ...
By Phillip Carter
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"Brussels Sprouts" podcast: Insights from Pittsburgh, Mark Houser on Why Macron Will Forever Remember His Visit There
Podcast
CNAS' new program “Across the Pond, In the Field” is taking foreign policy discussions on a national road trip—visiting 12 cities over a span of three years. During our ...
By Julianne Smith
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Trump’s Asian Security Dilemma
Commentary
President Trump’s upcoming five-country Asian tour takes place amid deepening worries about security trends across the region. North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs menac...
By Richard Fontaine
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
Why were US soldiers even in Niger? America’s shadow wars in Africa, explained.President Trump’s inexplicable fight with the widow of a Green Beret who was killed in Niger has sparked a political firestorm that shows no signs of dying down. It’s also bro...
By Phillip Carter & Andrew Swick
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Podcast
National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Women in National Security: Yasmin FarukiFormer CNAS Executive Intern Yasmin Faruki shares her thoughts on beginning a career in national security as a woman of color and the importance of seeking out challenges....
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Yasmin Faruki
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US Space Policy Should Aim to Preserve Advantage on the New Frontier
The administration of Donald Trump is the first of the 21st century to not be entirely preoccupied by issues of terrorism and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Such conditions pro...
By Adam Routh & Jerry Hendrix
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
John McCain's 'Bone Spurs' Comment Shows There's a Deeper Problem in the MilitarySen. John McCain’s recent comments about the wealthy avoiding service in Vietnam through deferments not only took an unsubtle swipe at the current commander-in-chief, but also...
By Andrew Swick
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Journalists Aren’t 'Fake News.' They’re Patriots
Commentary
On Monday, journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb. She led the research into the Panama Papers, which exposed tens of billions of dollars of stolen money...
By Neal Urwitz
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Trump's Nov visit can be his defining moment in Asia
Commentary
United States President Donald Trump's first official visit to East Asia next month is historic in its combination of low expectations and high potential impact. The President...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Is Beijing Adopting an Ethnonationalist Foreign Policy?
Commentary
Around the world, governments from Poland to Myanmar are stoking ethnonationalist sentiment to consolidate support around otherwise divisive political agendas. For smaller or ...
By Harry Krejsa & Anthony Cho
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The Necessity of Questioning the Military
Commentary
On Thursday morning, I planned to write a pointed screed decrying President Trump’s propensity to view the military community as a problem he can buy off with a check. Then, o...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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A Tale of Two Speeches
Commentary
In two widely noticed speeches this week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and President George W. Bush called Americans to a global leadership worthy of the country’s best traditio...
By Richard Fontaine
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
“If You’ve Never Been in Combat, You Can’t Even Imagine”Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly gave a remarkable performance at Thursday’s White House press briefing, deploying his record of service and sacrifice to defend President Trump’...
By Phillip Carter
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Remembering War
Claudio Magris, Blameless, trans. Anne Milano Appel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), 368 pp., $26.00. CLAUDIO MAGRIS is an academic from Trieste, the quintessential C...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Technology & National Security
The Policy Dimension of Leading in AIThe artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is creating new challenges for law, policy, and governance at domestic and international levels. Although advances in AI could caus...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Why the United States Needs a 355-Ship Navy Now
Commentary
If we do not maintain global supremacy on the seas, nations hostile to our principles will fill the gaps. One of President Trump’s signature campaign promises to the American...
By Jerry Hendrix & Robert C. O'Brien
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'Across the Pond, In the Field': bringing U.S. foreign policy out of the Washington bubble
Commentary
Like many folks in the nation’s capital, I’m not originally from Washington. I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and return home to the Midwest at least a couple times every y...
By Julianne Smith
