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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 piloted ...
By Paul Scharre
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Can Israel Survive Without the Palestinian Authority?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s obsessive focus on Iran ignores a greater and much more immediate threat to the security of Israel: the dissolution of the Palestin...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Salvaging the Global Order
International order is all the rage these days. Not since end of Cold War has so much sustained attention focused on the web of norms, institutions, rules, and relationships t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Why China's Growing Defense Budget MattersSo what does this tell us? Obviously nothing definitive, given that such an inherently indeterminate question as the nature and contours of China’s future behavior cannot be r...
By Elbridge Colby
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Train-and-Equip: Fight for Pluralism in Syria
This month, the United States and several of its Middle Eastern allies will begin training Syrian fighters through a revamped train-and-equip program that will form the core f...
By Nicholas Heras
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A Trade Deal With a Bonus For National Security
On the Big Island of Hawaii beginning Monday, U.S. officials will host trade negotiators from 11 nations spanning Asia and the Americas to work toward completing what could be...
By Ely Ratner & Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
U.S. Security ChallengesOn This Week in Defense News, Asia-Pacific Security Senior Director Dr. Patrick Cronin discusses the fight against the Islamic State group, Russia's aggression in Ukraine and ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A New Model of U.S. Defense CooperationHow are our European allies meant to cope with the predations of Russia, Middle East friends with the Islamic State, and Asian partners with the gray-zone challenges of China?...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Unleash the Swarm: The Future of WarfareCould swarms of low-cost expendable systems change how militaries fight? Last November, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall asked the Defense Science Board to examine a r...
By Paul Scharre
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Opinion Journal: The Case for an Iran Deal
Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow Robert D. Kaplan makes the case for compromise with Tehran....
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Opinion Journal: Bibi, Congress, Obama and Iran
Mary Kissel discusses Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress with The Israeli Project's Omri Ceren and Center for a New American Security's Robert D. ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Argument For Women In Combat Should Be About Mission Effectiveness
Recent weeks brought a number of historic firsts for women in ground combat forces, reigniting the debate surrounding the role of women in the military. On Jan. 30, five women...
By Katherine Kidder
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Can Washington do more to stop PRC land reclamation?
Efforts by the Obama administration to enhance America’s strategic position in Southeast Asia have been considerable: expanding and diversifying U.S. force posture, strengthen...
By Ely Ratner
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Better Than the Alternatives
The Obama administration is pursuing an imperfect deal with Iran, but one that is far superior to any of the realistic alternatives. Critics argue that instead of the current ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Contesting China’s Facts on New Ground
China’s aggressive actions to contest its excessive territorial claims in the South China Sea received a welcome if worrisome dose of realism this month, as new satellite imag...
By Shawn Brimley
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National Security Human Capital / Middle East Security
HuffPost Live: Benjamin Netanyahu & Susan Rice To Speak At AIPACSenior Fellow Ilan Goldenberg joins a panel on HuffPost Live Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address at AIPAC will impact relations and a possible Iran deal....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Ilan Goldenberg on Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations: Lessons Learned
Ilan Goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program, discusses his outlook on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and whether the two nations cam come...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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National Security Human Capital
Video: Women and Leadership in National SecurityCNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy, Senior Fellow Phillip Carter, and Research Associate Katherine Kidder discuss the vision behind CNAS' initiative discussing women and leadership in ...
By Katherine Kidder, Michèle Flournoy & Phillip Carter