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For Secretaries of Defense and State, Democrats’ Short list is Far Too Short
If the names being bandied about to fill the top jobs at the State Department and the Pentagon sound familiar, they should. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts was Hillary Rodha...
By Yochi Dreazen
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American Decline and the Liberal Order
The national conversation about America’s potential “decline,” however defined, tends to rely on an understanding in which power is conceptualized in simple metrics rather tha...
By Richard Fontaine
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North Korea hits its mark
North Korea’s successful missile launch now presents Pyongyang as on the cusp of joining the elite club of nations with nuclear-armed Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Read This Now: Global Trends 2030
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) published its Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds on Monday, a quadrennial analysis of the major trends shaping the global security ...
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The Silence and the Drones
The controversy of the American targeted-killing program, and especially the resurgence of covert paramilitary and military action, has inspired a great deal of concern about ...
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Iraq in Hindsight: Views on the U.S. Withdrawal
In Iraq in Hindsight: Views on the U.S. Withdrawal, Emma Sky offers a pointed critique of U.S. policy over the last decade, arguing that valuable lessons can be learned from t...
By Emma Sky
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A Sea Change in Natural Gas Trade Raises Foreign Policy Questions
International trade in natural gas has been turned on its head. In 2005, the United States was on track to import nearly 20 percent of its natural gas by 2020. That forecast l...
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India’s South China Sea Gambit Redux
India’s interest in the South China Sea is getting more attention. Last year, The Times of India reported that India’s offshore Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Videsh w...
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Data Show Global Carbon Emissions Hit Record High in 2011
New climate data published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Sundayshow that global carbon emissions hit a record high in 2011 and could increase in 2012 without a conce...
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How to Fight in Afghanistan With Fewer U.S. Troops
Kimberly and Frederick W. Kagan’s Nov. 23 commentary, arguing for a force of 30,000 or more Americans in Afghanistan after 2014 [“What we’ll need in Afghanistan,” Sunday Opini...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Global Swing States and European Strategy
A new European Global Strategy must account for one of the most important geopolitical trends of the early 21st century: the growing influence of emerging market democracies i...
By Daniel Kliman & Richard Fontaine
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Generalship and its Discontents
Having plowed through Tom Ricks' book on generals, I expected to write a review here. Unfortunately, I realized that I lack the background in the history of American military ...
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The State of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
Last week the Department of Energy (DOE) announced its decision to award the first company to receive government funding in support of commercializing Small Modular Reactors (...
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US energy: What's oil production got to do with national security?
The American energy revolution is starting to come into focus. Technological breakthroughs in shale gas and tight oil production are poised to make the United States — not Sau...
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Beijing Pushes the Diplomatic Envelop on South China Sea Dispute
Territorial claims over the South China Sea took an interesting turn last week. According to a report from Reuters, China’s new passports have raised the eyebrows of several...
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Gaza: Winners and Losers?
The Internet is abuzz with theorizing about who won and lost the short Israel-Hamas duel in Gaza. Unfortunately, the standards by which victory and defeat is tallied are fairl...
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Rage Against the Machines
Human Rights Watch recently put out a report demanding a ban on fully autonomous weapons system and more scrutiny, as well as additional legal controls, to regulate the develo...
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CIA Shutters Climate Center, But Continues its Work
Annie Snider of Greenwire confirmed on Monday that after more than three years the CIA has closed its Center for Climate Change and National Security, the office responsible f...
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National Security Human Capital Program
Transcript: A Conversation with the Honorable Leon PanettaThe Center for a New American Security hosted "A Conversation with the Honorable Leon Panetta, U.S. Secretary of Defense" on November 20, 2012. Secretary Panetta discussed U.S...
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National Security Human Capital Program
Video Highlights: A Conversation with the Honorable Leon PanettaThe Center for a New American Security hosted "A Conversation with the Honorable Leon Panetta, U.S. Secretary of Defense" on November 20, 2012. Secretary Panetta discussed U.S...