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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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Taiwan’s Great RecalibrationThe 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
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Kim Jong Un's motives: North Korea nuclear testOn CNN, Patrick Cronin, Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program, discusses Kim Jong Un's possible motives for conducting a nuclear test, which North Korea claims ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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The U.S. Can Thaw India-Pakistan Relations
Narendra Modi’s surprise Christmas Day visit to Pakistan stunned the world. Photos of the Indian prime minister holding hands in Lahore with his counterpart Nawaz Sharif offer...
By Richard Fontaine
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If China's Goliath Threatens Asia, Then Arm David
There is a Goliath menacing the western Pacific. China’s construction of three huge artificial islands with obvious military capacity in the South China Sea has already destab...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Podcast: Shawn Brimley on America's Military Edge
in his latest podcast, CNAS Executive Vice President Shawn Brimley argues that the U.S. military edge – particularly in regards to technology – is rapidly eroding. Mr. Brimley...
By Shawn Brimley
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Mind Games Behind Obama Arming TaiwanAmerican presidents like to announce major arms sales to Taiwan when they are leaving office. George Herbert Walker Bush announced the sale of nearly $8 billion in hardware, i...
By Harry Krejsa & Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Yomiuri-Gallup Survey / Strong support for alliance expressed on both sidesIn the Asia-Pacific region, the United States has no closer ally than Japan. The American public at large fully supports Japan’s measured steps to make a more proactive contri...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Remarks by Defense Deputy Secretary Robert Work at the CNAS Inaugural National Security Forum
WORK: Thank you for that kind introduction and in fact, all of the people at CNAS, our CNAS family, and it’s really great to be back here this morning. It reminds me of a sto...
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Gen. Dunford's Remarks and Q&A at the CNAS Inaugural National Security Forum
MICHELE FLOURNOY: Thanks, David, for bringing that footage to us. You know, this has been a wonderful day and a wonderful conference, and I want to thank all of you for comi...
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Video: Inaugural National Security Forum - Morning Sessions
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Video: Inaugural National Security Forum - Afternoon Sessions