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The Persistent Dangers of Double Games
Although America’s past and emergent counterterrorism strategies frequently raise concerns about unilateralism, the multilateral and cooperative aspects remain relatively low ...
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Video Highlights: Election 2012: The National Security Agenda - Campaign Surrogate Debate
On October 10, 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 Oba...
By Election 2012 Series
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Urbanization, the Environment and Biosecurity
Over the summer, Nancy Brune and I contributed to the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 blog, a forum to discuss a range of issues ahead of the NIC’s forthcom...
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Untangling the Good War
Jason Fritz at Ink Spots has an excellent review up of Anthony Beevor’s new single-volume history of World War II. I haven’t read the work (although Fritz’s review has moved i...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...