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North Korea: U.S. intelligence warnings
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Confronting China in the South China Sea
On January 29, the USS Curtis Wilbur, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, a Chinese-held islet in the South China Sea that is also cl...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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North Korea Ignites a Predictable Chain Reaction
North Korea’s fourth nuclear test set in motion a predictable chain reaction. I refer not to the precision of nuclear physics, but to the same old policy responses from all re...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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A New Baseline for North Korea Policy: What the Next US President Needs to Know
North Korea’s launch of a long range missile this weekend – its sixth – has once again thrust the country into the world’s headlines. No matter who wins the election, the next...
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Stop the Navy's carrier plan
When there is a crisis anywhere in the world, the president’s first question often is, “Where are the aircraft carriers?” The modern supercarrier lies at the very center of Am...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Julianne Smith before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Julianne Smith testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the "strains" on the European Union and implications for U.S. foreign policy....
By Julianne Smith
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China threatens sanctions against U.S. companies: Is this the future?
China's recent threat to impose sanctions on U.S. defense companies that sell arms to Taiwan should come as no surprise to American officials or corporate executives: Washingt...
By Peter Harrell
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America's Naval Presence Problem
One month ago, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter sent a stinging letter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus entitled “Program Balance.” The memo offered a stark reminder that Bud...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Video: Mapping Asia's Trajectory: An Australia Perspective
By Michèle Flournoy & Patrick M. Cronin
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Ignoring War Authorization Widens the Civil-Military Divide
Fifteen years after the last Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) and one week before President Obama delivered the State of the Union address, yet another servi...
By Amy Schafer
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Agenda SECDEF: Crafting the Next Defense Strategy
When the next secretary of defense arrives in the Pentagon in January 2017, he or she must show up with a fairly well-developed agenda in order to properly seize the various l...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Shawn Brimley
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Iran’s Arrest of U.S. Sailors Reflects Obama’s Foreign-Policy Weakness
Two thousand years ago, a Roman could wander the known world confident that he would be unmolested by local unruly elements, protected only by the statement “Civis romanus sum...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Despite Sanctions Relief, Iran’s Prospects Look Bleak
The international community has just lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for major nuclear concessions under the deal signed last summer. But fresh lows in oil prices and poo...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Taiwan’s Great Recalibration
The winds of change that swept Taiwan on Saturday, Jan. 16, propelling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Dr. Tsai Ing-wen to a landslide victory — with nearly doubl...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Phoebe Benich
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Taiwan’s Election Has Echoes of 1992
This Saturday, Taiwan will elect a successor government to President Ma Ying-jeou and his ruling KMT party. Over the last eight years, the Ma administration has pursued a warm...
By Harry Krejsa & Phoebe Benich
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Europe’s New Medieval Map
Look at any map of Europe from the Middle Ages or the early modern era, before the Industrial Revolution, and you will be overwhelmed by its dizzying incoherence—all of those ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Obama’s ‘Slippery Slope’ Delusion
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama sounded a familiar and somewhat defensive theme about the Islamic State. Let’s not overreact, he said, against “masse...
By Richard Fontaine
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Refugees Need New Places to Live—and Jobs When They Get There
Four years ago the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan did not exist. Today, housing about 80,000 Syrian refugees just miles from the international border, it is one of Jo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Judging the Iran Nuclear Deal, Six Months In
Six months ago this week, the P5+1 and Iran agreed on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The headlines and intense public debates have subsided but disagreements ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Russia's Evolving Nuclear Doctrine and Its Implications
In this report, Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow Elbridge Colby provides a baseline of Russian thinking on how Moscow sees its options for nuclear employment. Mr. Colby argues th...
By Elbridge Colby