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Event: Ensuring a Strong U.S. Defense for the Future
CNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy participated in a discussion hosted by The U.S. Institute of Peace of the report by the National Defense Panel, “Ensuring a Strong U.S. Defense for ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Send the U.S. Navy to AustraliaAustralian cooperation with America's ongoing military and humanitarian operations in Iraq is just the latest example of a deep alliance that has flourished for over six decad...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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Managing Partnerships, not Enlargement, Is NATO’s Real Challenge
Despite the recent prominence given to the issue of NATO’s membership enlargement, the alliance seems destined for at least the next few years to focus on broadening and deepe...
By Richard Weitz
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Interview: Michèle Flournoy on NBC's "Meet the Press" on ISIS threat and Russia relations
Watch the full "Meet the Press" segment at NBC News....
By Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
The Islamic State's Dangerous Influence in AsiaIn places across Indonesia, small collections of political Islamists have “openly pledged their allegiance” to the extremist terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS). One of th...
By Hannah Suh
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National Security Human Capital Program
Six Strategies Obama Could Use to Fight the Islamic StateAfter a summer in which Islamic State militants have rampaged through Iraq and Syria, declared an Islamic caliphate, recruited extremists from abroad and claimed credit for de...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Video: Coalition to Fight Islamic State Could Reward Assad
By Nora Bensahel
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: ON THE LINE: The Asia PivotBy Ely Ratner
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Technology & National Security
Stopping a New Class of MilitantsTechnological improvements are changing the power relationships between non-state and state actors. At War on the Rocks, TX Hammes made this argument with an eye toward Israel...
By Jack Miller
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Terrorism as Theater
The beheading of American journalist James Foley by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq was much more than an altogether gruesome and tragic affair: rather, it was a very soph...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The New Arab Cold War
A bitter proxy war is being waged in the Middle East. It stretches from Iraq to Lebanon and reaches into North Africa, taking lives in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt's Western Des...
By Jacob Stokes
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Interview: Nora Bensahel on MSNBC on European extremists as ISIS threat
By Nora Bensahel
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Kim Jong-un: Starving For PowerThe world is gradually coming to the conclusion that chronic malnutrition in Kim Jong-un’s North Korea is Pyongyang’s problem. After providing the DPRK with more than 12.5 mil...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Can US get beyond war and deterrence? Elbridge Colby says no.
At the 2014 U.S. Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium, Robert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby presented during its second panel, "Mutually Assured Stability (MAS) vs. Mutuall...
By Elbridge Colby & JaRel Clay
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Hollow Force: The Tradeoff Between Readiness and Modernization
After years of annual increases in the United States defense budget, recent measures to reduce federal budget deficits have mandated a substantial decline in Department of Def...
By Jack Miller
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Russia’s Nuclear Revival And Its Challenges – Analysis
Although attention is naturally focused on the role of Russia’s conventional forces in the Ukraine conflict , we should not overlook the modernization of the country’s nuclear...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Tensions Mounting in the East China SeaWaking up to another news article about a close encounter in or above the East China Sea has become routine. But when one looks more closely at the recent developments in thes...
By Zachary Hosford
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The Hard Hand of the Middle East
Reality can be harsh. In order for the United States to weaken and eventually defeat the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, it could use help from both the Iranian regime and th...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Gen. Allen: Destroy the Islamic State Now
The brutal murder of the brave American journalist James Foley is meant to directly terrorize the world’s media, the international community, and the United States. If all the...
By Gen. John Allen & USMC (Ret.)
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
#ThinkDefense: CEO Michèle Flournoy and NPR's Tom Bowman's Twitter ChatCNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy (@micheleflournoy) and NPR Pentagon Reporter Tom Bowman (@TBowmanNPR) took to Twitter to chat about today's most pressing national security issues in...
By JaRel Clay