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Defense / Technology & National Security
Left Behind: Why It's Time to Draft Robots for CASEVACWith thousands of air and ground robots in the field, you could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. military has embraced unmanned systems. The truth is that they are used ...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The U.S. Needs More DronesAl-Qaeda is morphing and metastasizing, spreading like a cancer in an arc of jihadism from the deserts of Northern Mali through Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: A Fading Star?The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) stands at a pivotal point in its history. On the one hand, the growing ties between Russia and China as well as the withdrawal of t...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Dueling Narratives, Dueling Visions of ASEANChina-U.S. relations retain a high degree of stability and do not operate within a zero-sum game. They do, however, operate against the background music of dueling narratives ...
By Cecilia Zhou & Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Chinese Assertiveness Has Asia on Edge: How to RespondA recent Pew Research Poll made clear that publics in East Asia are increasingly uneasy about the destabilizing effects of China’s maritime assertiveness. Among the eight coun...
By Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Bold Maritime Strategy for TaiwanTaiwan’s future security hinges on developing a new maritime strategy of active diplomacy and asymmetric defense. Although President Ma Ying-jeou has initiated creative peace ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Diversified Portfolio: Regional Responses to Chinese AssertivenessA recent Pew Research Poll made clear that publics in East Asia are increasingly uneasy about the destabilizing effects of China’s maritime assertiveness. Among the eight coun...
By Ely Ratner
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The wrong stuff: The F-35 vs. what U.S. airpower really needs in the future
The fact that the F-35 Lightning II isn’t making an appearance at the Farnborough International Airshow is the latest in a never-ending string of disappointments that have mar...
By Kelley Sayler
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Defense / Technology & National Security
How to Lose the Robotics RevolutionThe U.S. military is at the leading edge of the robotics revolution, with some of the most advanced systems on the globe like the autonomous X-47B carrier-based aircraft. But ...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China Advances on Missile Defense, With Eye on Dissuading RivalsOn July 23, China conducted its third declared ballistic missile defense (BMD) test in the past four years, with the Defense Ministry announcing afterward that the test had “a...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
CNAS Kicks Off Maritime Strategy Project: Imposing Costs on Bad Behavior in Maritime AsiaAsia’s relative peace and prosperity is increasingly marked by maritime tensions, especially in the East and South China Seas. Despite the obvious incentives for cooperation,...
By Alexander Sullivan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How Russia, China and the US can denuclearize North KoreaDespite their many differences over regional security and other issues, China, Russia, and the United States continue to collaborate to counter the nuclear and missile program...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
MH17 disaster foretells a more dangerous worldThe Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster is a poignant reminder of the randomness of fortune and misfortune. But it also serves as a prelude to an emerging security environmen...
By Kelley Sayler & Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Australia's new activism: The view from WashingtonWhen US officials talk about the US-Australia alliance, they almost always highlight, as President Obama did in hisNovember 2011 speech in Canberra, that Australians have foug...
By Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Trouble at sea reveals the new shape of China’s foreign policyChina’s recent moves in the East and South China Seas – various military deployments, policy proclamations, provocative naval maneuvers and rhetorical stridency – pose serious...
By Kurt Campbell
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
In Japan’s defense change, context is everythingWASHINGTON/HONOLULU – The announcement by Japan’s government that it will reinterpret the country’s constitution and permit a greater range of military activity has evoked rea...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
The Case for U.S. Arms Sales to VietnamWhen Beijing built a deep-sea drilling platform squarely in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone earlier this summer, it once again flouted widely accepted rules and sought to ex...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Recent Trends in the South China Sea and U.S. Policy: Day 1, Panel 1By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Autonomy, “Killer Robots,” and Human Control in the Use of Force – Part IIIn a recent post , I covered how autonomy is currently used in weapons and what is different about potential future autonomous weapons that would select and engage targets on ...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Autonomy, “Killer Robots,” and Human Control in the Use of Force – Part IIn May of this year, the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons(CCW) held the first multilateral discussions on autonomous weapons or, as activists like to ...
By Paul Scharre