Articles & Multimedia
Showing 4681-4700 of 9397 Publications
-
Russia’s Escalation in Syria: Making It Tougher to Fight ISIS?
On Thursday, the Trump administration decided to fire 59 cruise missiles from U.S. naval vessels in the Mediterranean at the Al-Shayrat airbase, an important Syrian military a...
By Nicholas Heras
-
Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss Syria in The Washington Post
Commentary
In The Washington Post, CNAS Middle East Security Program experts Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss President Donald Trump's decision to launch missile strikes agains...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
-
Podcast
Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
The Strategic Implications of the U.S. Strike on SyriaCNAS Middle East experts Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss U.S. missiles strikes on Syria and its implications....
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Neal Urwitz
-
Weathering the Coming Storm in the South China Sea
Quite apart from the Trump-Xi summit, China and the United States are due for a showdown in the South China Sea. Beijing confronted the last two administrations with dangerous...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Anthony Cho
-
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Xi’s Visit Could Signal US Decline, if We Let ItWith Xi Jinping journeying to President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, it is worthwhile to question whether the world is witnessing the slow unfolding of o...
By Jerry Hendrix
-
Bannon’s Demotion Means the Trump Team Is Learning — Even if Trump Isn’t
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it would remove White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council (NSC). National security wonk...
By Julianne Smith & Loren DeJonge Schulman
-
Why Was Steve Bannon Booted From the National Security Council: Three Theories
Even without the Russian intrigues of the nascent Trump administration, now would be a time for Kremlinology. Just as intelligence officers used to scrutinize every possible c...
By Phillip Carter
-
When Trump Meets Xi: Prepare for the Opening Gambit
The first summit meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is the beginning of a process, punctuated by serious issues, separated by distinctly different negotiat...
By Patrick M. Cronin
-
Podcast
National Security Human Capital / National Security Law
Event Podcast: Women in National SecurityBy Michèle Flournoy, Frances Townsend, GEN Carter Hem, USA (Ret.) & Jennifer Griffin
-
National Security Human Capital / National Security Law
Katherine Kidder and Phillip Carter Discuss New Report on Women in National SecurityBy Katherine Kidder, Phillip Carter & Neal Urwitz
-
The Failure of Trumpcare Is Good News for the Iran Deal
The collapse of the Republican healthcare bill is good news not only for President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement, but also for one of his central foreign polic...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
The State Department Press Corps Is an Asset, Not a Liability
A bad idea, left unchallenged, can become a “good” idea in the minds of the powerful. It can then be acted upon, often to terrible results. The Bay of Pigs fiasco, for instanc...
By Neal Urwitz
-
Tips for Mattis on Navigating Swampland
When then President-elect Donald Trump announced that he had chosen Gen. Jim Mattis to lead the Pentagon, there was a collective sigh of relief across the national security es...
By Shawn Brimley
-
Trump’s Bad Deal With China
One of Donald Trump’s winning themes on the campaign trail was the notion that nobody was better suited to getting a better deal from China than the man who literally wrote a ...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper & Charles Edel
-
Hungary’s Challenge to Trump
A shoe has dropped in Europe. A small shoe, but one with a loud bang on a marble floor. The government of pro-Russian populist Viktor Orban in Hungary has introduced legislati...
By Robert D. Kaplan
-
Michèle Flournoy before the House Committee on Armed Services
Congressional Testimony
Chairman Thornberry, Ranking Member Smith, distinguished members of the House Armed Services Committee, it is truly an honor to testify before you today on the critical topic ...
By Michèle Flournoy
-
Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Middle Kingdom Meets Middle EastIn a new Islamic State video that has undoubtedly caught Beijing’s eye, Uighur militants threaten to “shed blood like rivers” in China, pledge to avenge the oppressed, and bur...
By Richard Fontaine & Michael Singh
-
CNAS Asia Experts Preview the U.S.-China Summit
Podcast
Harry Krejsa and Hannah Suh, experts with our Asia-Pacific Security program, preview this week's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump. Hosted b...
-
For Tillerson, Showing Up at NATO Isn’t Enough
Bowing to outside pressure, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to attend his first meeting with NATO’s foreign ministers on Friday. But that was not his initial plan. Sch...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
-
What Is Michael Flynn’s Game?
News leaked on Thursday evening that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was shopping his testimony regarding the Trump administration’s Russia ties to anyone who might listen. Spe...
By Phillip Carter
