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National Security Human Capital
The Shadow Wars of the 21st CenturyWar is morphing. Today’s headlines are dominated by the conflicts in Gaza, Iraq and Ukraine, which little resemble the large, conventional state versus state wars that dominat...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Putin’s South American Trip Hides Russia’s Strategic Weaknesses
Although Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to South America earlier this month was overshadowed by events in Ukraine and the Middle East, it did garner considerable att...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Trouble at sea reveals the new shape of China’s foreign policyChina’s recent moves in the East and South China Seas – various military deployments, policy proclamations, provocative naval maneuvers and rhetorical stridency – pose serious...
By Kurt Campbell
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National Security Human Capital
Beyond UCLASS: Preparing the Navy for Next Generation WarfareThe United States is the world’s leading military power in large part because it employs both the best military technologies in the world and the best-trained force to effecti...
By Michael Horowitz
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Katherine Kidder's Latest Review Essay in FPRI's Orbis
This is no typical summer in July for CNAS staff. Adding to the full force includes Research Associate Katherine Kidder's new essay in Orbis, a publication by the Foreign Poli...
By JaRel Clay & Katherine Kidder
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
In Japan’s defense change, context is everythingWASHINGTON/HONOLULU – The announcement by Japan’s government that it will reinterpret the country’s constitution and permit a greater range of military activity has evoked rea...
By Richard Fontaine
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Video: Ukraine's stalemate
Watch the full interview at RT.com....
By Richard Weitz
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Iran's Highly Enriched Bargaining Chip
As talks over Iran's disputed nuclear program enter the home stretch, Tehran has placed a major obstacle in the way of a diplomatic solution: insistence on an industrial-scale...
By Colin H. Kahl
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National Security Human Capital
Getting Unmanned Naval Aviation RightThe issue of when and how the U.S. Armed Forces fully integrate unmanned and increasingly autonomous surveillance and strike platforms into their inventory is one of the most ...
By Shawn Brimley
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Executive Vice President Shawn Brimley before House Armed Services Committee on UCLASS
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies Shawn Brimley testified before the House Committee on Armed Services regarding the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveill...
By Shawn Brimley
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
The Case for U.S. Arms Sales to VietnamWhen Beijing built a deep-sea drilling platform squarely in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone earlier this summer, it once again flouted widely accepted rules and sought to ex...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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For Afghanistan Election, After Kerry Deal Comes the Hard Part
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s shuttle diplomacy in Kabul this weekend paved the way to resolving Afghanistan’s current election crisis, while helping to establish a pot...
By Richard Weitz
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When it comes to oil exports, all our fears are old fears
Are you still driving a Pinto? Smoking in the office and wearing polyester bellbottoms? Probably not, because we don’t live in the 1970s any more. So why does our oil export p...
By Peter Gardett
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Non-Academic Job Searches in DC – What to Know
Many graduate students are expanding their job searches outside the academy. As an advisor, I’m horribly underprepared at offering job advice outside of the academic job marke...
By Katherine Kidder
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Arabs do care about Gaza
Since the Arab uprisings began in late 2010, Palestine has seemed to recede to the margins of Arab discourse. The agenda has been understandably dominated by intensely urgent ...
By Marc Lynch
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National Security Human Capital
A New U.S. Military Would Be an Army of AdvisersThe United States has an extraordinary ability to defeat any conventional armed force on the planet; our tanks, ships and planes will make short work of any enemy in frontal w...
By John A. Nagl
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National Security Human Capital
The Army’s next enemy? Peace.Retired Army Lt. Gen. David W. Barno is a senior fellow and co-director of the Responsible Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security. From 2003 to 2005, he ser...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Why Moldova Urgently Matters
"NATO's Article 5 offers little protection against Vladimir Putin's Russia," Iulian Fota, Romania's presidential national security adviser, told me on a recent visit to Buchar...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Recent Trends in the South China Sea and U.S. Policy: Day 1, Panel 1By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Autonomy, “Killer Robots,” and Human Control in the Use of Force – Part IIIn a recent post , I covered how autonomy is currently used in weapons and what is different about potential future autonomous weapons that would select and engage targets on ...
By Paul Scharre