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The Next QDR Is the Last Chance for Sanity
The next nine months will be the most important period for United States defense strategy since the end of the Cold War. The highly anticiapted Quadrennial Defense Review and,...
By Shawn Brimley
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An Asian Power Web Emerges
When President Obama met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in California last week, it is doubtful that either leader focused on the growing ties among countries like Singapo...
By Ely Ratner, Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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Through a Murky PRISM
Edward Snowden is one of history's great actors. But not in the way his admirers (and some detractors) believe, as will be made clear at the end of this post. An earlier draft...
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How America Lost Its Nerve Abroad
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Much as Baghdad once did, this city feels like an outpost of American imperialism. There's the familiar "green zone," the checkpoints you have to zigzag ...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Setting an Agenda for U.S.-China Strategic ReassuranceThe summit meeting between Xi Jinping and Barack Obama underway in Southern California offers an opportunity to recast the often fraught Sino-US relationship as one that is on...
By Alexander Sullivan & Patrick M. Cronin
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I Might Need You To Kill: Signatures, Patterns, and Alternatives
From what we know from seemingly deliberate leaks on the eve of Obama’s major counterterrorism speech at the National Defense University last week, the most widely criticized ...
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Arctic Updates
Some recent happenings in the Arctic: The Arctic Council will hold its biennial Ministerial Meeting on May 15. The Council is an intergovernmental body that attempts to addres...
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The Most Dangerous Border in the World
The night before Beijing released its biennial defense white paper in mid-April, avowing that it would not "engage in military expansion," roughly 30 Chinese troops marched 12...
By Alexander Sullivan & Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
America and the South China Sea ChallengeThe rough waters that roiled the South China Sea in 2012 are not giving way to smooth sailing in 2013. Despite a springtime push for diplomatic progress, present conditions po...
By Alexander Sullivan & Patrick M. Cronin
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National Security Advisor Tom Donilon's Speech on Foreign Policy in the Modern Energy Era
Last week, Tom Donilon, National Security Advisor to the President, spoke at the launch of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. In his speech, Donilon discuss...
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Bringing Structure Back to Irregular Warfare
Structural approaches to international relations have gone somewhat out of fashion in recent years. Burdened with their associations with Cold War geopolitics and “billiard ba...
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The United States and China to Increase Dialogue on Climate Change
Saturday marked John Kerry’s inaugural visit to China as acting Secretary of State. While North Korea’s most recent episode of belligerence took center stage and dominated the...
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Cracking Defense's Crystal Balls
It's the Sequestration Game of Thrones, and a careful observer of DC defense politics will glimpse much tumult as the Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force all battle for suprema...
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Signing Off
After four years, it is bittersweet for me to close this chapter of my professional life. Today is my last day at CNAS and at the helm of the Natural Security program. Startin...
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The Limits of Proxy Warfare in Syria
With the drumbeat for directly joining Syria’s civil war growing, it probably should not surprise us that the U.S. governments quiet efforts to aid the Syrian rebels are now c...
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Are US Navy's Super Carriers a Relic of Wars Past?
WASHINGTON — Budget pressures at the Pentagon have renewed a debate about the value of the US Navy's giant aircraft carriers, with critics arguing the warships are fast becomi...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Raw Power
Dan Drezner, in light of Moises Naim eloping with a book title he came up with last year (NB: Undead Power is still available if he wants to change his narrative tack, and thi...
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Climate Change Tops List of Security Threats in Pacific, says ADM Locklear
Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, likely surprised many when he said that the biggest long-term security challenge in the Pacific is climate c...
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A Rack City on a Hill: Unsolicited Advice to Landpower and Seapower
One of the most thoroughly annoying things about American strategic debate is its thoroughly theological character. Landpower advocates will whip out their T.H. Fehrenbach quo...
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Beyond Disruption
America’s war in Iraq came at a strange moment in technological history. The 21st century saw mass proliferation of affordable cellular telephony, altering not simply the way ...