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Dependable Expendables?
While cheap precision weapons, supposedly expendable drones, and invulnerable standoff fires continue to fascinate publics and intrigue policy makers, we should be careful bef...
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Reminder: Election 2012 Event on Wednesday
We are still on holiday and won’t be posting any new content to the blog today. But we did want to remind our readers that on Wednesday, October 10, CNAS will hold its final E...
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Reinventing Landpower
Let's face it: American landpower is in crisis. As blogfather Andrew Exum pointed out in a January column, without a dominant adversary or geographical template (the Soviet Un...
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Japan’s rightward shift
Japanese politics are shifting to the right, and the impact on regional security could be crucial. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s surprise victory to head Japan’s Liberal ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
With some apologies to AC/DC, the latest Economist has an interesting story on increasingly cheaper and deadlier conventional weapons. Systems are coming online that can engag...
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Has Obama Properly Handled the Arab Spring?
Has Obama Properly Handled the Arab Spring? Tension has again been bubbling to the surface in the Arab world, with several recent outbreaks of violence expressing heavy anti-A...
By Marc Lynch
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Targeted Killings and Pakistan: Focus on the Policy
Some familiarity with strategic theory might not save the hopelessly confused debate on targeted killings in the "AfPak" region, but it might help. The basics: policy is a con...
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The Real Pivot
Last week marked a major inflection point in the war in Afghanistan. NATO decided to suspend joint operations with Afghan forces below the battalion level, while the last of t...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Water Security Takes Center Stage at UN Meeting
Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participated in a roundtable on water security while visiting the United Nations in New York, raising the security profile...
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The Logic and Risks of Capture Operations
Marisa Porges has a forceful op-ed in today's NYT making the case for beefing up the capture component of U.S. counterterrorism efforts. Read the whole thing: At the moment, ...
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Can Taiwan Bring Peace to the South and East China Seas?
Given Taiwan’s precarious lack of strategic depth as an island, it is only fitting that its president, Ma Ying-jeou, should have written his doctoral dissertation on sovereign...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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American Power and Choice in the Middle East
Though Kindred Winecoff may have written this about Stephen Walt, it also speaks to Pankaj Mishra's op-ed today predicting the allegedly inevitable US decline in the Middle Ea...
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Is Russia’s Geopolitical Influence Waning in the Wake of the Shale Gas Boom?
The Washington Post published a must-read report this morning on the decline of Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned natural gas company. Gazprom has long been Moscow’s instrument of...
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Don’t give up on India
Throwing 10 percent of the world’s population into darkness is not a good way to advertise one’s “great power” credentials. India’s late-summer power outage, political dysfunc...
By Richard Fontaine
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Don't give up on India
Throwing 10 percent of the world’s population into darkness is not a good way to advertise one’s “great power” credentials. India’s late-summer power outage, political dysfunc...
By Richard Fontaine
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Video: Election 2012: The National Security Agenda - Campaign Surrogate Debate
On September 19, the Center for a New American Security, the American Enterprise Institute and the New America Foundation hosted a debate between top-level surrogates of the O...
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Sentries in the Sky: Using Space Technologies for Disaster Response
Yesterday, CNAS released a new policy brief exploring how the United States can make better use of space technologies to improve disaster warning and response. Sentries in the...
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The Taliban, Special Operations, and Strategy
One of the preemiment problems with the way that guerrilla warfare is discussed is the almost commonplace idea that it is a fundamentally different type of war, requiring fund...
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
In On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future, member of the CNAS Board of Directors and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Karen Elliott House navigat...
By Karen Elliott House
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Arms Sales and American Interests
With the U.S. economy in the doldrums and pessimism over American international influence at its peak, the occasional bits of good news naturally grab the headlines. A case in...
By Ethan B. Kapstein