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Defense / Technology & National Security
Commentary: Swarming the BattlefieldThe US Department of Defense has launched a long-range research and development planning effort, and DoD leaders have stated that robotics and autonomous systems will be a cri...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Local Flavor: What Asia’s Hedging Trend Tells Us about Asia, and StrategyWhen modern scholars and strategists discuss trends as a hook to some larger observation or policy argument, they typically do so with an eye to trends at the global level — t...
By Van Jackson
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Dr. Patrick Cronin: Maritime Strategy in AsiaAsia-Pacific Security Director Patrick Cronin discusses the Maritime Strategy in Asia Project on This Week in Defense News....
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Where Are the Spratly Islands and Why Do They Matter?Senior Fellow Ely Ratner discusses why six nations are contesting sovereignty over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. He speaks on “In The Loop.”...
By Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Asia Goes Nuclear: Elbridge Colby December 2014 InterviewRobert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby discusses his op-ed on nuclear weapons in Asia with The National Interest....
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Welcome to China and America's Nuclear NightmareFor all the focus on maritime disputes in the South and East China Seas, there is an even greater peril in Asia that deserves attention. It is the rising salience of nuclear w...
By Elbridge Colby
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A War in the Conservative Movement?: Defense Hawks vs. Budget Hawks
The conservative movement may not be able to acknowledge it yet, but it is facing a big schism in its ranks. The schism is not “establishment” versus “grassroots” or “compromi...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
North Korea expert: Hollywood needs to get seriousDr. Patrick Cronin, director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program, spoke with The Hill on North Korea's cybersecurity capabilities....
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
How the 'Internet with Chinese Characteristics' Is Rupturing the WebChina is openly undermining the United States' vision of a free and open Internet. Motivated by maintaining the fragile balance between information control, social and politic...
By Amy Chang
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Zuckerberg’s pandering to China threatens Web’s valuesPresident Obama acknowledged Dec. 3 that the Chinese exercise of cybertheft is “indisputable.” While he encouraged American CEOs to speak out about China’s behavior, others, s...
By Amy Chang
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Why Japan’s Election MattersAmidst the worst Russian aggression since the Cold War, the seizure of large swaths of the Middle East by Islamist extremists, a teetering nuclear negotiation with Iran and a ...
By Vance Serchuk
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Talk Stealthy to Me
As the Air Force Times recently reported, the F-22 and F-35A conducted their first integrated training mission earlier this month. Several observers declared this mission, whi...
By Kelley Sayler
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Beyond Offset Working Group Interview: Ben FitzGeraldSenior Fellow Ben FitzGerald discusses the importance of the Beyond Offset project and provides recommendations for the Department of the Defense's third offset strategy....
By Ben FitzGerald
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How to Deal with Chinese Assertiveness: It's Time to Impose CostsChina’s reemergence as a wealthy and powerful nation is a fact. In recent decades its rise has been unprecedented, moving from the tenth-largest economy in 1990, to the sixth-...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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When Superiority Goes Wrong: Science Fiction and Offset Strategies
For all our talk about the need for military technical superiority, what if pursuit of that goal becomes our downfall? A couple of weeks ago, Bill Sweetman from Aviation Weekl...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Modi Doctrine for the Indo-Pacific Maritime RegionOnly six months into his tenure, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is breathing new life into the concept of Indo-Pacific security. Indeed, it is not too early to describe t...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Technology & National Security
UNIDIR White Paper on Meaningful Human ControlThe United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) recently published a second report centered around the weaponization of increasingly autonomous technologies. A...
By Matthew Seeley
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Nov. 13-14 Meetings and BeyondThe United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) met for the second time this year on November 13th and 14th in Geneva to discuss lethal autonomous weapons ...
By Matthew Seeley & Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Paul Scharre and Michael Horowitz on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systemshen the robots start thinking for themselves in the movies or on TV, it’s never a good sign for the humans. Whether the setting is Earth or Caprica, letting robots think and g...
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Trading UpLooking ahead to the next Congress, Republicans on Capitol Hill see trade as one issue where they actually, maybe, possibly might be able to compromise with the White House. I...
By Ely Ratner