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Taking the Fight to "ISILSTAN": Displacing and Replacing ISIL in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq
More so than at any time in recent history, last month demonstrated the dichotomous nature of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) current situation. On the one h...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Paul Scharre
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Escaping the No Man's Land of Defense Reform
Defense reform — frequently relegated to a no man’s land somewhere between wonkish dreams and third-rail issues — has reappeared as the issue du jour. Secretary of Defense Ash...
By Katherine Kidder, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Shawn Brimley
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Statement at United Nations CCW Expert Meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
As we enter our third year of discussions on lethal autonomous weapons, I would like to applaud states for their continued engagement on this important topic as well as offer ...
By Kelley Sayler & Paul Scharre
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Julianne Smith before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Julianne Smith, senior fellow and director of the CNAS Strategy and Statecraft Program, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affa...
By Julianne Smith
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What ISIS Wants: Punishing Refugees for Brussels
On Tuesday, March 22, twin explosions at the Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek Metro Station rocked Belgium’s capital city of Brussels, killing at least thirty and injuring 230. T...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Freedom for Me—But Not for Thee
When historians in future decades ponder America’s wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the name of Andrew J. Bacevich, a West Point graduate, retired Army colonel and professor emeritus...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Protecting the Rule of Law on the South China Sea
Later this year, The Hague is expected to render its decision in a dispute over China’s land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea. Most observers expect the court to rul...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper, senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific Security Program, testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on “China and the U.S. Rebala...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Reforming Acquisitions and the Need for Speed
This month, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, unveiled new acquisition reform legislation. The draft stand-alone bill is noteworthy from a ...
By Alexandra Sander, Ben FitzGerald & Jacqueline Parziale
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Saving the South China Sea Without Starting World War III
At present, Australia, Japan, India and South Korea are all active in the Southeast Asian security environment, engaged in everything from arms sales to combined military trai...
By Van Jackson
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Trump's nuclear views are terrifying: Column
The contours of Donald Trump’s foreign policy are becoming disturbingly clear. Newspapers have labeled his thinking on international affairs "isolationist” and “unabashedly no...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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China Looms Large in Australia's New Strategy
For a middle power, Australia has long defined its national interests in very broad terms. It has sent its troops alongside U.S. forces to Iraq and Afghanistan, and over the y...
By Richard Fontaine
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To strengthen the Iran deal, impose tough sanctions on Iran’s missile tests
With Iran’s recent launch of advanced ballistic missiles, Iranian hardliners are testing the resolve of the U.S. and our partners to confront Iranian aggression that challenge...
By Peter Harrell
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China's Short-Term Victory In the South China Sea
The sands are quickly shifting in the South China Sea. New reports suggest that China may be preparing to conduct land reclamation at Scarborough Shoal, which is seized from t...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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US caught off guard by Russia's military drawdown in Syria
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By Richard Fontaine
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Our Overworked Security Bureaucracy
Over the last two years, the West has been caught by surprise by a number of transformative international crises. From Russia’s annexation of Crimea to the Ebola outbreak to t...
By Julianne Smith
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Building social science knowledge on public attitudes and autonomous weapons
Last week, Charli Carpenter published an important piece advancing the conversation about public attitudes, public conscience, and autonomous weapons. Her post critiqued my re...
By Michael Horowitz
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Sustaining the Third Offset in the Next Administration
After more than a year of speeches, debate, and discussion (much of it curated here at War on the Rocks), the recent fiscal year 2017 (FY17) budget submission finally provides...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Shawn Brimley
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The fear driving Trump's success is tying America's hands in war on terror
Donald Trump is riding a wave of fear to electoral victory across the country. One of the greatest fears driving supporters to Trump is that of the global jihad, led today by ...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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Trump’s donations aside, these are tough times for veterans groups
Donald Trump claimed it took only an hour to raise $6 million for veterans. “We set up the website. I called some friends,” he said. And, just like that, 20 veterans’ groups w...