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Eurasia's Coming Anarchy
As China asserts itself in its nearby seas and Russia wages war in Syria and Ukraine, it is easy to assume that Eurasia’s two great land powers are showing signs of newfound s...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Does the U.S. Overstate the Threat of Terrorism?
Looking back on the past fifteen years, it is clear that September 11, 2001, dramatically altered the landscape of international security. It brought to light the reality that...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Of Course Women Should Register for the Draft
Women have been serving honorably in the armed forces for as long as the armed forces have existed — they’ve either hidden their gender, seen combat “unofficially,” or served ...
By Amy Schafer
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The Hard Questions about the Selective Service Have Nothing to do with Women in Combat
Representative Duncan Hunter’s proposed legislation requiring women to register for the draft is intentionally provocative. It comes in the wake of both the chief of staff of ...
By Katherine Kidder
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Weighing the Strategic Impact of Killing Civilians in Counter-Militancy
In order to avoid putting ever more boots on the ground, the United States has increasingly turned to using airstrikes and drone strikes to damage a wide range of militant gro...
By Andrew Kenealy
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Dr. Michael Horowitz before the Subcommittee on Seapower and Power Projection Forces
Dr. Michael Horowitz, CNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow, testified before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Power Projection Forces....
By Michael Horowitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
CNAS Commentary: High Stakes at the Sunnylands SummitThe transformation of U.S.–Southeast Asian relations is the least heralded and yet most forward-looking element of President Barack Obama’s rebalance to Asia. At the upcoming ...
By Derwin Pereira & Patrick M. Cronin
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In Libya, No Unity without Security
In late January, Libya’s internationally recognized parliament overwhelmingly rejected a slate of candidates to lead a proposed national unity government. Several days later, ...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
North Korea: U.S. intelligence warningsBy Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
North Korea Ignites a Predictable Chain ReactionNorth Korea’s fourth nuclear test set in motion a predictable chain reaction. I refer not to the precision of nuclear physics, but to the same old policy responses from all re...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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A New Baseline for North Korea Policy: What the Next US President Needs to Know
North Korea’s launch of a long range missile this weekend – its sixth – has once again thrust the country into the world’s headlines. No matter who wins the election, the next...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Confronting China in the South China SeaOn January 29, the USS Curtis Wilbur, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, a Chinese-held islet in the South China Sea that is also cl...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Stop the Navy's carrier plan
When there is a crisis anywhere in the world, the president’s first question often is, “Where are the aircraft carriers?” The modern supercarrier lies at the very center of Am...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Julianne Smith before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Julianne Smith testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the "strains" on the European Union and implications for U.S. foreign policy....
By Julianne Smith
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China threatens sanctions against U.S. companies: Is this the future?
China's recent threat to impose sanctions on U.S. defense companies that sell arms to Taiwan should come as no surprise to American officials or corporate executives: Washingt...
By Peter Harrell
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America's Naval Presence Problem
One month ago, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter sent a stinging letter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus entitled “Program Balance.” The memo offered a stark reminder that Bud...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Mapping Asia's Trajectory: An Australia PerspectiveBy Michèle Flournoy & Patrick M. Cronin
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National Security Human Capital
Ignoring War Authorization Widens the Civil-Military DivideFifteen years after the last Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) and one week before President Obama delivered the State of the Union address, yet another servi...
By Amy Schafer
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Agenda SECDEF: Crafting the Next Defense Strategy
When the next secretary of defense arrives in the Pentagon in January 2017, he or she must show up with a fairly well-developed agenda in order to properly seize the various l...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Shawn Brimley
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Iran’s Arrest of U.S. Sailors Reflects Obama’s Foreign-Policy Weakness
Two thousand years ago, a Roman could wander the known world confident that he would be unmolested by local unruly elements, protected only by the statement “Civis romanus sum...
By Jerry Hendrix