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Patrick Cronin and Anthony Cho Discuss a Strategy for the Trump Administration in Southeast Asia
CNAS Asia experts Dr. Patrick Cronin and Anthony Cho discuss a new report, "Averting Disengagement: A Geoeconomic Strategy for the Trump Administration in Southeast Asia." Hos...
By Patrick M. Cronin, Anthony Cho & Neal Urwitz
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
The Mysterious Case of the Wayward Aircraft CarrierThere is a sobering reality beyond this week’s strange “Where’s Waldo?” story of the USS Carl Vinson and its strike group: For a period of time, significant confusion existed ...
By Phillip Carter
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Keeping Up Civ-Mil Relations
James Mattis was sworn in as secretary of defense in what is arguably one of the more fraught periods in civil-military relations in decades. While civilian control in the Uni...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Mara Karlin
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Defense / Middle East Security
Don't Celebrate Dropping The 'MOAB' In Afghanistan - It's Just More Of The SameLast week's utilization of a 21,000 pound bomb to destroy an ISIS cave complex in Afghanistan was oddly met with jubilation. But as the dust settles, both literally and metaph...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
What America Can Learn from China’s People’s Liberation ArmyPresident Trump recently called for a $54 billion increase in military spending to “send a message to the world… of American strength, security, and resolve.” The U.S. defense...
By Annie Kowalewski
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Cyber Espionage in Pacific, Strait of Taiwan
The Center for a New American Security’s Hannah Suh, program manager at its Asia-Pacific Security Program, and Harry Krejsa, a research associate with the program, discuss the...
By Harry Krejsa & Hannah Suh
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U.S. Navy works to increase number of ships in fleet
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Capt. Jerry Hendrix (USN, Ret.), senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, discussed the challenges the U.S. Navy faces in increasing their fleet to 350 ships o...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Can Trump Handle The Challenge Of Russia's Intermediate Range Nuclear Weapons?Russia has shown willingness to test the United States’ resolve on many fronts. Though the daily news coverage has highlighted many of these issues, it has failed to adequatel...
By Jacqueline Ramos
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Defense / Middle East Security
Afghanistan is at risk of becoming the new VietnamThursday’s detonation in Afghanistan of the massive GBU 43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, also known as the Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) could be for this war what the Tet Offens...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Technology & National Security
Don’t Dismiss Concerns about Transition-Period Unmasking (At Least Not Yet)The aftermath of the 2016 election has spun off yet another divisive issue: Whether White House officials inappropriately requested the identities of Trump transition aides wh...
By Adam Klein
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The President Doesn’t Need a Trump Doctrine
Foreign policy doctrine season has come to the nation’s capital. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s forcible response to Bashar Assad’s gas attack in Syria, observers are...
By Richard Fontaine
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NATO Funding Frustration Could Cause Friction in Europe
A former candidate for UK Prime Minister suggests that the United Kingdom could use its military to counteract Spanish attempts to influence the status of a British outpost. A...
By Edoardo Saravalle
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Isolationist who? Americans are more globalist than you might think.
It is old news that, as a candidate, President Trump’s foreign policy rhetoric departed sharply — dangerously, many would say — from decades-old precepts about the role of the...
By Kate Bateman
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Can Trump continue to engage in acts of war without congressional approval? And how far can he go?
Last week, a chemical weapons attack in a Syrian town killed more than 70 men, women, and children. As a result, the Trump administration took action against Syria, launc...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Here’s How Trump Could Forge a Coherent Russia Strategy
On his 77th day in office, President Donald Trump changed his Russia policy. He may not have realized it as he gave the order that sent Tomahawk cruise missiles toward a Syria...
By Julianne Smith & Jacqueline Ramos
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Trump hails military after it drops "Mother of All Bombs" on AfghanistanPresident Trump hailed the U.S. military after it dropped the "mother of all bombs," America's largest non-nuclear weapon, in Afghanistan on Thursday.But just like last week's...
By Adam Routh
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NATO's Back on the Table: Reflections from the Secretary General
Podcast
After a successful meeting in Washington with President Trump, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg sits down with CNAS' Transatlantic Security team. Hosted by Jim Townsend...
By Jens Stoltenberg, Jim Townsend & Rachel Rizzo
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Why a Limited Strike on North Korea Could Escalate
As North Korea warns foreigners to evacuate Seoul, the Trump administration is threatening to hit North Korea the way it hit Syria earlier this month. While the United States ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper before the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission
Vice Chairman Shea, Senator Goodwin, thank you for the opportunity to testify before this distinguished commission on “Hotspots in China’s Maritime Periphery.” In the coming m...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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How Trump Can Build a 350-Ship Navy
When President Donald Trump wanted to send a message to North Korea, he did it the old-fashioned way: by sending the USS Carl Vinson—a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier that holds...
By Jerry Hendrix
