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• Podcast
  • April 7, 2017
  The Strategic Implications of the U.S. Strike on Syria

  CNAS Middle East experts Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss U.S. missiles strikes on Syria and its implications....

  By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Neal Urwitz

• • Commentary
  • The Diplomat
  • April 7, 2017
  Weathering the Coming Storm in the South China Sea

  Quite apart from the Trump-Xi summit, China and the United States are due for a showdown in the South China Sea. Beijing confronted the last two administrations with dangerous...

  By Patrick M. Cronin & Anthony Cho

• • Commentary
  • Observer
  • April 7, 2017
  Xi’s Visit Could Signal US Decline, if We Let It

  With Xi Jinping journeying to President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, it is worthwhile to question whether the world is witnessing the slow unfolding of o...

  By Jerry Hendrix

• • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • April 6, 2017
  Bannon’s Demotion Means the Trump Team Is Learning — Even if Trump Isn’t

  The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it would remove White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council (NSC). National security wonk...

  By Julianne Smith & Loren DeJonge Schulman

• • Commentary
  • Slate
  • April 6, 2017
  Why Was Steve Bannon Booted From the National Security Council: Three Theories

  Even without the Russian intrigues of the nascent Trump administration, now would be a time for Kremlinology. Just as intelligence officers used to scrutinize every possible c...

  By Phillip Carter

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • April 6, 2017
  When Trump Meets Xi: Prepare for the Opening Gambit

  The first summit meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is the beginning of a process, punctuated by serious issues, separated by distinctly different negotiat...

  By Patrick M. Cronin

• Podcast
  • April 5, 2017
  Event Podcast: Women in National Security

  By Michèle Flournoy, Frances Townsend, GEN Carter Hem, USA (Ret.) & Jennifer Griffin

• • Podcast
  • April 5, 2017
  Katherine Kidder and Phillip Carter Discuss New Report on Women in National Security

  By Katherine Kidder, Phillip Carter & Neal Urwitz

• • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • April 5, 2017
  The Failure of Trumpcare Is Good News for the Iran Deal

  The collapse of the Republican healthcare bill is good news not only for President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement, but also for one of his central foreign polic...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • April 4, 2017
  The State Department Press Corps Is an Asset, Not a Liability

  A bad idea, left unchallenged, can become a “good” idea in the minds of the powerful. It can then be acted upon, often to terrible results. The Bay of Pigs fiasco, for instanc...

  By Neal Urwitz

• • Commentary
  • War on the Rocks
  • April 4, 2017
  Tips for Mattis on Navigating Swampland

  When then President-elect Donald Trump announced that he had chosen Gen. Jim Mattis to lead the Pentagon, there was a collective sigh of relief across the national security es...

  By Shawn Brimley

• • Commentary
  • Politico
  • April 4, 2017
  Trump’s Bad Deal With China

  One of Donald Trump’s winning themes on the campaign trail was the notion that nobody was better suited to getting a better deal from China than the man who literally wrote a ...

  By Mira Rapp-Hooper & Charles Edel

• • Commentary
  • The American Interest
  • April 4, 2017
  Hungary’s Challenge to Trump

  A shoe has dropped in Europe. A small shoe, but one with a loud bang on a marble floor. The government of pro-Russian populist Viktor Orban in Hungary has introduced legislati...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• Congressional Testimony
  • April 4, 2017
  Michèle Flournoy before the House Committee on Armed Services

  Chairman Thornberry, Ranking Member Smith, distinguished members of the House Armed Services Committee, it is truly an honor to testify before you today on the critical topic ...

  By Michèle Flournoy

• • Commentary
  • The American Interest
  • April 3, 2017
  Middle Kingdom Meets Middle East

  In a new Islamic State video that has undoubtedly caught Beijing’s eye, Uighur militants threaten to “shed blood like rivers” in China, pledge to avenge the oppressed, and bur...

  By Richard Fontaine & Michael Singh

• Podcast
  • April 3, 2017
  CNAS Asia Experts Preview the U.S.-China Summit

  Harry Krejsa and Hannah Suh, experts with our Asia-Pacific Security program, preview this week's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump. Hosted b...

• • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • March 31, 2017
  For Tillerson, Showing Up at NATO Isn’t Enough

  Bowing to outside pressure, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to attend his first meeting with NATO’s foreign ministers on Friday. But that was not his initial plan. Sch...

  By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend

• • Commentary
  • Slate
  • March 31, 2017
  What Is Michael Flynn’s Game?

  News leaked on Thursday evening that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was shopping his testimony regarding the Trump administration’s Russia ties to anyone who might listen. Spe...

  By Phillip Carter

• Podcast
  • March 30, 2017
  Lauren Fish on Exosuits and Gender Integration in the Military

  Lauren Fish, research associate with the CNAS Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, discusses the use of exosuits in the U.S. military and their advantages and...

  By Lauren Fish & Neal Urwitz

• • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • March 30, 2017
  Can Trump End the War in Syria?

  With the near-doubling of U.S. forces in northern Syria, and perhaps more on the way, President Donald Trump is moving aggressively on his pledge to “demolish and destroy” wha...

  By Colin H. Kahl, Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras