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Video: Joe Walsh in NWA Supporting BFF Film
A huge name in music was in Bentonville Saturday night promoting a film on the war in Afghanistan.Joe Walsh wrote a song for the movie Citizen Soldier. The film tells the stor...
By Wendy R. Anderson
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Understanding the Promise — and Limits — of Sanctions
Last week, David Francis and Lara Jakes published a report for Foreign Policy, titled “Sanctions Are a Failure… Let’s Admit That,” on the feeling in Washington that recent a...
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Capitalize on native speakers of the digital languages
One divide in the United States is becoming increasingly clear — the split between those who can remember their first encounter with digital technology and those who cannot. F...
By Jacqueline Parziale
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How Islam Created Europe
Europe was essentially defined by Islam. And Islam is redefining it now. For centuries in early and middle antiquity, Europe meant the world surrounding the Mediterranean, or ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Notable & Quotable: Anarchy in the 21st Century
From foreign-affairs analyst Robert D. Kaplan's "The Post-Imperial Moment: Vulgar, populist anarchy will define the twenty-first century" in the May-June issue of the National...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Brexit Will Shatter Europe
On June 23, the United Kingdom will hold a referendum that will determine whether it remains a member of the European Union. Arguments abound in both the pro- and anti...
By Michelle Shevin-Coetzee & Rachel Rizzo
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How China Sees World OrderChina's rapid ascent to great-power status has, more than any other international development, raised concerns about the future of the liberal international order. Forged in t...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper & Richard Fontaine
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What the US Gives Its Mideast Partners Isn’t Always What They Need
As President Obama heads to Saudi Arabia later this week for a summit with Gulf Cooperation Council leaders, the American public and policymakers are generally united in their...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Peter Kirechu
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Taking the Fight to "ISILSTAN": Displacing and Replacing ISIL in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq
More so than at any time in recent history, last month demonstrated the dichotomous nature of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) current situation. On the one h...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Paul Scharre
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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
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