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Is North Korea a Nuclear State?If the global norm against nuclear proliferation is to retain meaning, North Korea must remain isolated from the international community in certain respects. But that doesn’t ...
By Van Jackson
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Sullivan Discusses Joko Widodo’s Visit To Japan And The New Japan-Indonesia Security Cooperation AgreementBy Alexander Sullivan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Sullivan Discusses Japan's Strategic Outreach To Southeast Asia And Indonesia's Role In The South China Sea.By Alexander Sullivan
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Commanding the SwarmToday’s uninhabited vehicles are largely tele-operated, with a person piloting or driving the vehicle remotely, but tomorrow’s won’t be. They will incorporate increasing auton...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Will Asia's Peace Last?Will Asia’s peace endure? The answer depends on how policymakers cope with growing structural pressures that increasingly encourage miscalculations, arms races, and reckless f...
By Van Jackson
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Why North Korea Is So Freaked out by US-ROK DrillsSpring is a season for cherry blossoms. However, for many of the 28,500 of American military personnel forward deploying in the Republic of Korea (ROK), this is the season for...
By David Eunpyoung Jee
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Dr. Jerry Hendrix on A Strategy for Sustainment and Fiscal Security
Defense Strategies and Assessments Director Dr. Jerry Hendrix discusses his new report, "Avoiding Trivia: A Strategy for Sustainment and Fiscal Security" with Neal Urwitz, dir...
By Neal Urwitz & Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Visiting Fellow Dr. Van Jackson discusses Japan’s militarizationIs Japan striving for military “normalcy,” hedging against uncertainty, or balancing a more assertive China? Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan has increased defense spend...
By Van Jackson
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Commentary: The Imperative of Long-Range StrikeLater this spring, the Department of Defense will unveil its decision for the new long-range strike bomber. The program, designed to supplement aging bomber inventories and re...
By Kelley Sayler & Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Matter of National Security: America Must Support TPPSome business analysts are stressing that the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership between the United States and 10 other countries promises smaller rewards—if also fewer risks—t...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
It’s MathGreg Easterbrook’s recent column “Our Navy is Big Enough” in the New York Times demonstrates that one lecture at the Naval War College does not a naval expert make. Easterbroo...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The Human Element in Robotic WarfareThe first rule of unmanned aircraft is, don’t call them unmanned aircraft. And whatever you do, don’t call them drones. The U.S. Air Force prefers the term “remotely piloted ...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Why China's Growing Defense Budget MattersSo what does this tell us? Obviously nothing definitive, given that such an inherently indeterminate question as the nature and contours of China’s future behavior cannot be r...
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
U.S. Security ChallengesOn This Week in Defense News, Asia-Pacific Security Senior Director Dr. Patrick Cronin discusses the fight against the Islamic State group, Russia's aggression in Ukraine and ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A New Model of U.S. Defense CooperationHow are our European allies meant to cope with the predations of Russia, Middle East friends with the Islamic State, and Asian partners with the gray-zone challenges of China?...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Unleash the Swarm: The Future of WarfareCould swarms of low-cost expendable systems change how militaries fight? Last November, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall asked the Defense Science Board to examine a r...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The Foreign Policy Essay: The South Korean Sentry—A “Killer Robot” to Prevent WarA new sentry guards the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. It is South Korea’s SGR-A1, a robot with the ability to autonomously identify and destroy targets....
By Alexander Velez-Green
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Defense / Technology & National Security
A World of Proliferated DronesPaul Scharre, who is the Director of the 20YY Warfare Initiative at CNAS, contemplates how the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles among states and non-state actors is i...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Dr. Van Jackson before the House Subcommittee on Asia and the PacificVisiting Fellow Dr. Van Jackson testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific on U.S. Opportunities and Challenges in the Asia P...
By Van Jackson
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Robots at War and the Quality of QuantityThe U.S. Department of Defense has launched the search for a “third offset strategy,” an approach to sustain U.S. military technological superiority against potential adversar...
By Paul Scharre