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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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Defense / Technology & National Security
Statement at United Nations CCW Expert Meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapon SystemsAs 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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Protecting the Rule of Law on the South China SeaLater 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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review CommissionDr. 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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Technology & National Security
Reforming Acquisitions and the Need for SpeedThis 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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Saving the South China Sea Without Starting World War IIIAt 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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National Security Human Capital Program
Trump's nuclear views are terrifying: ColumnThe 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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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
To strengthen the Iran deal, impose tough sanctions on Iran’s missile testsWith 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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Short-Term Victory In the South China SeaThe 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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Defense / Technology & National Security
Building social science knowledge on public attitudes and autonomous weaponsLast 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...
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Obama Is No George H. W. Bush
President Barack Obama is known to be a great admirer of President George H. W. Bush, who Obama recently said is "one of the more underrated presidents we have ever had." Obam...
By Robert D. Kaplan