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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Mapping Asia's Trajectory: An Australia PerspectiveBy Michèle Flournoy & Patrick M. Cronin
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Iran’s Arrest of U.S. Sailors Reflects Obama’s Foreign-Policy Weakness
Two thousand years ago, a Roman could wander the known world confident that he would be unmolested by local unruly elements, protected only by the statement “Civis romanus sum...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Taiwan’s Great RecalibrationThe winds of change that swept Taiwan on Saturday, Jan. 16, propelling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Dr. Tsai Ing-wen to a landslide victory — with nearly doubl...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Phoebe Benich
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Russia's Evolving Nuclear Doctrine and Its Implications
In this report, Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow Elbridge Colby provides a baseline of Russian thinking on how Moscow sees its options for nuclear employment. Mr. Colby argues th...
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Kim Jong Un's motives: North Korea nuclear testOn CNN, Patrick Cronin, Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program, discusses Kim Jong Un's possible motives for conducting a nuclear test, which North Korea claims ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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If China's Goliath Threatens Asia, Then Arm David
There is a Goliath menacing the western Pacific. China’s construction of three huge artificial islands with obvious military capacity in the South China Sea has already destab...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Podcast: Shawn Brimley on America's Military Edge
in his latest podcast, CNAS Executive Vice President Shawn Brimley argues that the U.S. military edge – particularly in regards to technology – is rapidly eroding. Mr. Brimley...
By Shawn Brimley
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Mind Games Behind Obama Arming TaiwanAmerican presidents like to announce major arms sales to Taiwan when they are leaving office. George Herbert Walker Bush announced the sale of nearly $8 billion in hardware, i...
By Harry Krejsa & Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Yomiuri-Gallup Survey / Strong support for alliance expressed on both sidesIn the Asia-Pacific region, the United States has no closer ally than Japan. The American public at large fully supports Japan’s measured steps to make a more proactive contri...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Does China Needs Its Own 'Womenomics'?Any economist will tell you that failing to integrate half of a country’s population into the workforce is economic nonsense — a needless expense that permanently limits growt...
By Harry Krejsa
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Breaking the North Korea Arms Control TabooArms control is one of the more benign tools of statecraft available to governments grappling with hard security problems. It entails diplomatic agreements or external mandate...
By Van Jackson
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The Smartphone Wars are ComingWe are living today in the midst of the greatest democratization of information since the invention of the printing press. Smartphones transform any person into a citizen repo...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Washington's Message in the South China SeaOn October 27, the United States conducted a long-awaited freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea. During the operation, the USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burk...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Countering Russian Nuclear Strategy in Central Europe
In this collection of essays, Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow Elbridge Colby highlights discusses countering Russian nuclear strategy in central Europe. The collection, titled "...
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Will the Ma-Xi Meeting Backfire for Taiwan's KMT?The data is in: less than a week after the meeting between Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese President Xi Jinping, a plurality of Taiwanese believe Ma does not refl...
By Phoebe Benich
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Defense / Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
A Better, Smarter Approach to Beating ISISThe ISIS threat looms large in the American psyche. Recent polling shows that strong percentages of Americans support sending ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Re...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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Defense / Technology & National Security
INFOGRAPHIC: The Value of EnduranceDownload a PDF of the infographic....
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How to Get Kim Jong-un Out of the U.S.-ROK Alliance's 'Head'North Korea remains the most explosive flashpoint in Asia because of the potential for escalation and major war. As the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley, puts ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
What Did The Navy Do In the South China Sea?After the U.S.S. Lassen’s freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the Spratly Islands last week, we wrote that the Lassen and the accompanying P-8 Poseidon aircraft appeare...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Testimony before the Senate Armed Services CommitteeA video of the entire hearing is available online....
By Paul Scharre