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Video: Coalition to Fight Islamic State Could Reward Assad
By Nora Bensahel
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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 / 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
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Explaining the Arab uprisings
The delirious early days of the Arab uprisings seem like a distant memory today. The failed promise of the Egyptian revolution, Libya’s utter collapse, the savage sectarian re...
By Marc Lynch
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Islamic State’s #1 Export: The Continuing Relevance of Counterterrorism
In 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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When it Comes to Nonproliferation, China Has Been a ‘Free Rider’
When asked recently by New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman whether China, as the “biggest energy investor in Iraq,” should behave more like a stakeholder there, U.S. P...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Pointless PunishmentThe Obama administration has responded to increasing Russian aggression by stepping up its own efforts to inflict economic pain on Moscow and isolate it diplomatically. The Un...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Can America "Just Say No" to China?“One of America’s clearest and most compelling interests is to develop a positive and constructive U.S.-China relationship.” Secretary Kerry’s statement at the recent U.S.-Chi...
By Amy Chang
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Ukraine Crisis Torpedoes Russia-Japan RapprochementOne of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s main objectives since returning to office has been to improve relations with Russia, a goal also sought by Moscow. Both governments...
By Richard Weitz
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Ferguson's Cops Are Armed Like I Was in Iraq
In Iraq, I led a motley crew of soldiers, civilians, and contractors, who lived outside the wire in downtown Baquba, advising the government of Iraq’s volatile Diyala province...
By Phillip Carter
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Obama's Foreign Policy Record: TBD
The establishment media has declared U.S. President Barack Obama a failure in foreign policy. He is worse than George W. Bush, say some journalists; he is worse than Jimmy Car...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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America: Beware the Siren Song of Disengagement
In authorizing airstrikes in Iraq, President Obama faces a challenge: making the case for U.S. action to an American population that is tired of energetic international engage...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How Japan Can Raise Costs on Tailored Coercion in the East China SeaAs a previous blog post alluded to, one of the goals of the first workshop in our Maritime Strategy Project, and indeed of the entire initiative, is to understand the drivers ...
By Alexander Sullivan