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It's Time For The US To Stand Up For the Rule of Law
The world desires and needs American leadership to confront the expansion of authoritarian regimes that seek to undermine the global economic system and the rule of law that s...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Obama Needs an ISIS War Czar Before It's Too Late
With the Islamic State, or ISIS, still entrenched across a large swath of Iraq and Syria after a year of U.S.-led airstrikes, the Obama administration is under growing critici...
By Richard Fontaine
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After the Deal, Strengthen Our Iran Policy
With the president having secured the congressional votes necessary to ensure the Iran deal enters into force, our elected leaders should turn their attention to America’s bro...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Nanotechnology and U.S. Military Power
Research Associate Kelley Sayler explores nanotechnology and U.S. military power as an excerpt of the American Foreign Policy Council's "Defense Dossier." Assessing how micro-...
By Kelley Sayler
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Ilan Goldenberg: U.S. Strategy after Iran Deal
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Video: Terminators - Fact or Fiction?
By Paul Scharre
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Europe Discovers a New Geography
A vast crumbling can be heard across Europe, coupled with an ennui that is the ironic upshot of being stunned by too many disparate crises. The Mediterranean, it turns out, is...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Future of Japan Self-Defense Forces: Implications for the Alliance and Regional Security
The CNAS Asia team recently hosted an experts’ briefing on the future of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF). The first of our Alliance Requirements Seminar Series, the ev...
By Harry Krejsa
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Elbridge Colby on Russia's Military Modernization
By Elbridge Colby
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Diplomacy in the Time of Repression
Note: Article originally published on Wall Street Journal Asia. Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s first state visit to Washington takes place this month amid China’s fiercest crackd...
By Richard Fontaine
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Elizabeth Rosenberg before the House Financial Services Committee
Energy, Economics, and Security Program Director Elizabeth Rosenberg testified before the House Financial Services Committee on U.S. efforts to stop the financing of terror....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Promoting Strategic Stability in the Midst of Sino-U.S. Competition
Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow Elbridge Colby examines Sino-U.S. competition and nuclear weapons. This is part of a series of briefs on "Strategic Domains and the Obama-Xi Summ...
By Elbridge Colby
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Fighting ISIS Means Galvanizing Its Resistance
The U.S. campaign against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also called ISIS) is unlikely to succeed without a clear strategy for taking the fight to ISIS in eastern Syria by...
By Nicholas Heras
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Don't Bother Working Through Baghdad
The United States has long relied on its influence in Baghdad to defuse sectarianism in Iraq, fight Sunni extremism, and curb Iran’s regional influence. But the Iraqi national...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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Changing Tides in South China Sea
China’s rapid effort to build artificial islands in the South China Sea is far more than a diplomatic challenge. For China’s neighbors and the United States, it could soon bec...
By Elbridge Colby
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It's Time to Confront Beijing About the South China Sea
China has continued its aggressive actions in the South China Sea. Events from ramming Vietnamese fishing boats to continued dredging and land reclamation demonstrate aggressi...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Don't Forget Land Wars in Asia
“You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is to never get involved in a land war in Asia.” This humorous quote from the film The Princess Br...
By Van Jackson
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The Sino-Russo Rundown
Commentary
Russia and China seem to be growing closer by the day. In May 2015, Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Russia. As China’s official media opined at the time, “China and Russia a...
By Jacob Stokes & Alexander Sullivan
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The legacies of the Iraq war
Just after midnight on Aug. 2, 1990, an invasion force of about 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait. The Kuwaiti military, outnumbered and taken by surprise, was swiftly ...
By Vance Serchuk
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The United States, NATO, and Dissuading Russian Aggression
This past June, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that Washington would pre-position heavy military equipment in eastern and central Europe, a move that would ...
By Elbridge Colby
