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Pick Your Prism
This year has been filled with multiple, competing foreign policy crises, but 2014 has also been a year of dueling historical analogies. The trend began in January, when Japan...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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Why Does the Navy Still Not Have Enough Money for New Submarines?
The Navy is beginning to increase the tempo of its drumbeat calling for additional shipbuilding money to pay for the long planned replacement for the Ohio-class ballistic miss...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Technology & National Security
Hagel's Departure and DOD Offset StrategySenior Fellow Ben FitzGerald and CSBA's Robert Martinage discuss Sec. Chuck Hagel's departure from the Department of Defense and DOD's Offset Strategy....
By Ben FitzGerald
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
A Delicate Atomic Dance: Managing the Aftermath of the Iran Nuclear TalksWith the agreement in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 on an extension of the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, policy makers will now have to turn to the equally chal...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Ilan Goldenberg
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National Security Human Capital Program
America Musn’t Neglect Its NukesEarlier this month the Pentagon released a devastating assessment of its own management of the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The report, authored by two widely respected former fo...
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / Technology & National Security
UNIDIR White Paper on Meaningful Human ControlThe United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) recently published a second report centered around the weaponization of increasingly autonomous technologies. A...
By Matthew Seeley
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Nov. 13-14 Meetings and BeyondThe United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) met for the second time this year on November 13th and 14th in Geneva to discuss lethal autonomous weapons ...
By Matthew Seeley & Paul Scharre
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China Scores
China is back. Nearly two centuries after it lost its traditional place at the center of Asian affairs, Beijing has begun giving shape and substance to its renewed leadership ...
By Ely Ratner
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How the United States can counter the ambitions of Russia and China
The unraveling of the Middle East under the weight of the Sunni-Shiite rivalry and the rise of the Islamic State is enough of a national security challenge to keep the United ...
By Ely Ratner
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Redesigning the All-Volunteer Force of the Future
By Phillip Carter
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Keynote: GEN Martin Dempsey on Civil-Military Relations
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The U.S. Military: Both A Part of Us and Apart From Us
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Smart Hawks
This point is becoming increasingly accepted in defense circles. Defense experts at places like Washington’s Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments have been sounding ...
By Elbridge Colby & Eric Sayers
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Paul Scharre and Michael Horowitz on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systemshen the robots start thinking for themselves in the movies or on TV, it’s never a good sign for the humans. Whether the setting is Earth or Caprica, letting robots think and g...
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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Time to govern
The midterm election handed control of Congress to the party whose traditional strength is national security. In developing its foreign policy agenda, the incoming Republican ...
By Elbridge Colby & Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Trading UpLooking ahead to the next Congress, Republicans on Capitol Hill see trade as one issue where they actually, maybe, possibly might be able to compromise with the White House. I...
By Ely Ratner
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The Myth of the Militarization of America's Africa Policy
After almost fifteen years of unprecedented political stabilization and economic development in Africa, the ravages of Ebola and a spike in military coups in places like Burki...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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Realism Returns
The most remarkable aspect of Senator Rand Paul’s “conservative realism” speech on October 23 in New York was that it was seen as remarkable at all. For the fact is that, desp...
By Elbridge Colby
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A Big Step Forward: Tunisia’s Fragile Democratic Consolidation
Those in Washington still hopeful about the positive potential of the 2011 Arab uprisings should celebrate Tunisia’s successful October 26 legislative elections. By all accoun...
By Dafna Rand
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Republican Congress Is Good News for AsiaHaving attended summits in China and Burma, President Barack Obama heads to Australia this weekend for the G-20 summit, all while carrying the albatross of his party’s elector...
By Elbridge Colby & Richard Fontaine