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Video: Shifting the Military Balance in East Asia: Panel One
On Friday, October 25, the Center for a New American Security hosted a half-day experts' conference, jointly organized with the Japan Institute of International Affairs, on th...
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Video: Putting the East China Sea and East Asia Into Strategic Context
On Friday, October 25, from 9:00 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m., the Center for a New American Security hosted a half-day experts' conference, jointly organized with the Japan Institute o...
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Video: Shifting Military Balance in East Asia: Panel Two
On Friday, October 25, the Center for a New American Security hosted a half-day experts' conference, jointly organized with the Japan Institute of International Affairs, on th...
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From Romance to Realism in U.S.-India Ties
Blink and you might have missed the U.S.-India summit earlier this month. Sitting in the Oval Office, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh watched as U.S. President Barack Oba...
By Richard Fontaine
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National Security Human Capital Program
The End of Overkill? Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Weapons PolicyRobert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby and several experts argue for getting rid of the triad by basing U.S. nuclear weapons exclusively on submarines....
By Elbridge Colby
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The End of the U.S. Military's Tech Edge?
Is the American military losing its vaunted technological edge? During the next decade, the rise of new powers and the accelerating diffusion of advanced technology throughout...
By Ben FitzGerald, Kelley Sayler & Shawn Brimley
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Placebo: The 2014 Defense Budget and DOD’s Credibility Challenges
The president’s Fiscal Year 2014 defense budget request is a placebo, a placeholder with no effect. It exceeds the budget caps imposed by the Budget Control Act’s automatic sp...
By Travis Sharp
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Video: Book Launch Event: Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted the book launch for Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel, CNAS Writer in Residence, on Tuesday, October 1, from 6:00...
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Video: Highlights of the Book Launch Event: Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted the book launch for Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel, CNAS Writer in Residence, on Tuesday, October 1, from 6:00...
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Video: Maintaining a Strong Defense-Industrial Workforce
A discussion of the challenges to the nation of maintaining a healthy defense industrial workforce in an era when sequestration requires deep cuts in defense budgets. Featurin...
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Video: Highlights from Maintaining a Strong Defense-Industrial Workforce
A discussion of the challenges to the nation of maintaining a healthy defense industrial workforce in an era when sequestration requires deep cuts in defense budgets. Featuri...
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Singh and Obama must look ahead
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit toWashington comes at a time of doubt. Someanalysts point to India’s stalled economic reforms and slowing growth and question the country...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS Board of Directors Co-Chair Michèle Flournoy at House Armed Services Committee
CNAS Co-Chair of the Board of Directors Michèle Flournoy testified on September 19 before the House Armed Services Committee on Afghanistan....
By Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
CNAS Commentaries: The Way Forward in SyriaNine experts at the Center for a New American Security offer analysis and commentary on the range of issues relating to the U.S. response to the alleged use of chemical weapon...
By Gordon Miller, Katherine Kidder, Nora Bensahel, Patrick M. Cronin, Phillip Carter, Richard Fontaine, Richard Williamson & David W. Barno, USA (Ret.)
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Consequence Considerations of a Syrian Strike
Before any authorization to attack Syria is given, it is necessary to contemplate and take appropriate action to mitigate any negative consequences from the strikes. There are...
By Gordon Miller
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International Law Constrains U.S. Action in Syria
Two basic legal principles animate our current international system: states are sovereign, and they shall not, generally speaking, attack each other. The United Nations char...
By Phillip Carter
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The Danger of Strategic Distraction
By Shawn Brimley
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The President Is Right to Intervene, But Then What?
President Obama is right to take action in response to the Asad regime’s chemical attack on Syrian civilians. Yet in the absence of a strategy that aims at ending the broader ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Syria and the Responsibility to Protect
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a powerful emerging international norm. President Obama has given it lip service and he has taken modest, yet important, bureaucratic st...
By Richard Williamson
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The Limits of a Limited Strike
We now know a great deal about how a military strike against Syria might unfold – but it is far less clear what broader strategic objectives such a strike would achieve, if an...
By Nora Bensahel