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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Here's How Private Contractors Can Help Win the Afghan WarThe president has declared a “path forward” for Afghanistan. Given that the United States is at a nexus for strategic change, might there be an increased role for private cont...
By CDR Daniel G. Straub, USN
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China has a plan to cripple North Korea, so let's work with Beijing
The United States and North Korea are in a dangerous cycle of escalating military threats and rhetorical exchanges. The risk of a miscalculation that results in catastrophic c...
By Peter Harrell
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Is China leaping past us?
Commentary
Sixty years ago this fall, the Soviet Union shocked the world by launching into orbit Earth’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. The beach ball-sized spacecraft was an ast...
By Daniel Kliman & Harry Krejsa
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North Korea’s Nuclear Threat Requires Diplomatic Talks
This is a hard essay to write. It is admittedly an awkward attempt to distill a lesson from a tragedy in order to apply it to a far larger problem facing our nation. In the na...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Decoupling is back in Asia: A 1960s playbook won't solve these problems
It has been quite a summer in Pyongyang. Between July 4th, when it tested its first ICBM, and Labor Day weekend, when it detonated its sixth nuclear bomb — possibly a thermonu...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Wanted: A U.S. Strategic Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
China is engaging in a nearly trillion dollar play for the future of Afro-Eurasia—called the Belt and Road Initiative—and has so far caught the United States flat-footed. Unle...
By Daniel Kliman
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Managing the North Korea crisis
By Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Course Correction: The Navy Needs to Invest in People, Not Just PlatformsOn a moonlit early morning with calm seas on June 17, the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald was conducting routine operations within sight of land, near Japan’...
By CDR Daniel G. Straub, USN & Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Imagining a War With North Korea—It's Not UnthinkableThis week marks the beginning of the Ulchi-Freedom Guardian exercise, an annual wargame conducted by the U.S.-South Korean alliance. The exercise comes on the heels of North K...
By Jerry Hendrix
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What Works in Afghanistan
There is a cliché about Afghanistan that custom dictates must be included in every TV appearance, column, and book about that land: It is the “graveyard of empires.” From Alex...
By Phillip Carter
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The Only Way Trump’s Afghanistan Plan Would Make Sense
Monday night, President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited plan for Afghanistan. Trump admitted his instinct was to withdraw from the war-torn country, where U.S. forces h...
By Stephen Tankel
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Trump Learns From America’s Failures in Afghanistan
Since the end of the Cold War, one of the unfortunate patterns in American foreign policy has been the tendency of new presidents to denounce their predecessors’ approach to t...
By Vance Serchuk
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Trump Learns From America’s Failures in Afghanistan
Since the end of the Cold War, one of the unfortunate patterns in American foreign policy has been the tendency of new presidents to denounce their predecessors’ approach to t...
By Vance Serchuk
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Here are 5 takeaways from Trump’s startling nuclear threats against North Korea
Read the full op-ed in The Washington Post....
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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America Needs to Stay in Afghanistan
Nearly 16 years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the United States is nearing a seminal moment in its involvement in Afghanistan, as President Donald Trump gathers at...
By Vance Serchuk
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Trump’s right — we are losing in Afghanistan
President Trump is not wrong on Afghanistan. During a contentious July meeting with his top military and national security advisors, he repeatedly questioned the quality of ad...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Afghanistan Has No Silver Bullet
Commentary
Last week, NBC News reported that President Donald Trump laced into top military leaders in mid-July over U.S. strategy and performance in Afghanistan. He refused to sign off ...
By Stephen Tankel
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Assessing North Korea's Nuclear Threat
Podcast
Dr. Daniel Kliman, a senior fellow with the CNAS Asia-Pacific Security Program, discusses the growing threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons program and the implication...
By Daniel Kliman & Neal Urwitz
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What "Winning" Looks Like in Pakistan and Afghanistan
CNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow Stephen Tankel discusses what "winning" looks like in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Hosted by Neal Urwitz....
By Stephen Tankel & Neal Urwitz
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North Korea and the ‘Blink’ of War
At a time when peace in Asia seems to hang by a thread of hope that untested leaders will exercise restraint, a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) seems a ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
