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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
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Yes, Unmanned Combat Aircraft are the Future
Will the next U.S. fighter aircraft be manned, contrary to the predictions of technologists and policymakers like Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus? That is the prediction of Co...
By Paul Scharre
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What Crimea Tells Us About Asia's Future Wars
Crimea and the complex military occupation that now exists in Ukraine is an all too reasonable and underexplored model for future conflict in Asia. When we think about conflic...
By Van Jackson
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How to constrain Iran's support for terrorism - and still make a deal
One of the major criticisms of the nuclear deal with Iran is that lifting economic sanctions will strengthen Iran’s ability to support terrorist groups and other activities th...
By Peter Harrell
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The Guns of August 1990
Just after midnight on August 2, 1990, an invasion force of approximately 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait. As mechanized and armored Republican Guard divisions breach...
By Vance Serchuk
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Richard Fontaine discusses new report on combatting ISIS
By Richard Fontaine
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Security assistance isn't the quick fix the US thinks it is
Building partner capacity, or BPC, has become all the rage. But the recent capture of U.S.-trained rebels in Syria by the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra front is the latest in a...
By Dafna Rand
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From 1987: Robert D. Kaplan on Robert Conquest
At the height of the famine emergency in 1985, a few journalists sat around a restaurant table in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, considering analogies for the food cris...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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A Defining Moment for the Alliance?
Williams: To what extent is it fair to classify Europe's lack of investment in defense technology and national defense budgets as a threat to the capabilities of the Atlantic ...
By Julianne Smith
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America's Allies Want More From the US
During the past several years, U.S. allies got a “reset” and a “rebalance,” but what they really need and want is reassurance. During our time in the Obama administration, we ...
By Julianne Smith
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Interview: Shawn Brimley on This Week in Defense News on DoD budget
By Shawn Brimley
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Why China likes the Iran deal
As members of Congress debate whether to back the deal over Iran's nuclear program, one source of support seems guaranteed -- China. It's one of the biggest winners in the agr...
By Alexander Sullivan & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Nick Heras: Assad is Stronger Than You Think
CNAS Researcher Nick Heras discusses why U.S. policymakers and the international community should not underestimate the ability of the Assad regime to prolong the Syrian civil...
By Nicholas Heras
