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Dr. Dafna Rand before Senate Committee on Armed Services on U.S. Middle East Policy
Deputy Director of Studies Dr. Dafna Rand testified before the Senate Committee on Armed Services on U.S. Middle East Policy....
By Dafna Rand
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Why North Korea Is So Freaked out by US-ROK DrillsSpring is a season for cherry blossoms. However, for many of the 28,500 of American military personnel forward deploying in the Republic of Korea (ROK), this is the season for...
By David Eunpyoung Jee
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The Kobani Model: Strengthening Kurdish-Arab Relations in Syria
The Islamic State (IS) suffered a setbackat the northern Syrian-Turkish border city of Kobani. This much-heralded event was important for a reason that has potential future ra...
By Nicholas Heras
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CEO Michèle Flournoy: Statement to Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
CEO Michèle Flournoy submitted a Congressional Statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discussing United States Crude Export Policy....
By Michèle Flournoy
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Elizabeth Rosenberg before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Senior Fellow Elizabeth Rosenberg testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the United States' Crude Export Policy....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Video: Dr. Dafna Rand discusses Syria
By Dafna Rand
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Visiting Fellow Dr. Van Jackson discusses Japan’s militarizationIs Japan striving for military “normalcy,” hedging against uncertainty, or balancing a more assertive China? Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan has increased defense spen...
By Van Jackson
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Iran's Great Cultural Advantage
Throughout all the vicissitudes of dealing with Iran, an obvious fact has been insufficiently addressed: The external behavior of Iran's regime is simply more dynamic and more...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Is the Iran Deal the New Obamacare?
Has the Iran deal become too big to fail? Last October, right-wing opponents of President Obama seized on comments by his advisor, Ben Rhodes, who suggested that the administr...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Dr. Jerry Hendrix on A Strategy for Sustainment and Fiscal Security
Defense Strategies and Assessments Director Dr. Jerry Hendrix discusses his new report, "Avoiding Trivia: A Strategy for Sustainment and Fiscal Security" with Neal Urwitz, dir...
By Neal Urwitz & Jerry Hendrix
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Islamism in the IS age
The “IS-ification of Islamist politics,” in Khalil al-Anani’s felicitous phrase, has reshaped the ideological and strategic incentives for Islamist groups and their adversarie...
By Marc Lynch
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Transcript: Managing, Ending and Avoiding Wars in the Middle East
What I'd like to do today is to lay out the specific variables that are engendering conflict in the region, and that will continue to do so over the five- to 10-year time fram...
By Dafna Rand
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Matter of National Security: America Must Support TPPSome business analysts are stressing that the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership between the United States and 10 other countries promises smaller rewards—if also fewer risks—t...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Commentary: The Imperative of Long-Range StrikeLater this spring, the Department of Defense will unveil its decision for the new long-range strike bomber. The program, designed to supplement aging bomber inventories and re...
By Kelley Sayler & Paul Scharre
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Iraq's Sunni Reawakening
In early March, Baghdad started a push to retake the historic city of Tikrit, located in the center of the so-called Sunni triangle, from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham...
By Dafna Rand & Nicholas Heras
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THE U.S. REALIGNMENT OF THE PERSIAN GULF REGIONAL SECURITY COMPLEX
The Persian Gulf sits at the nexus of multiple regional security complexes overlaid one upon another, creating a delicately balanced yet dangerously volatile mosaic of cultura...
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North Korea, Russia declare a 'year of friendship'
Asia-Pacific Security Director Dr. Patrick Cronin weighs in on the "year of friendship" declared by North Korea and Russia....
By Patrick M. Cronin
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LTE: Why We Need to Keep Forces in Afghanistan
Your March 9 editorial “No Cause to Delay the Afghan Pullout” ignores the compelling logic of a broad, bipartisan consensus in the national security community and Congress: th...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
It’s MathGreg Easterbrook’s recent column “Our Navy is Big Enough” in the New York Times demonstrates that one lecture at the Naval War College does not a naval expert make. Easterbroo...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The Human Element in Robotic WarfareThe first rule of unmanned aircraft is, don’t call them unmanned aircraft. And whatever you do, don’t call them drones. The U.S. Air Force prefers the term “remotely pil...
By Paul Scharre