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Defense / National Security Human Capital
A Conservative Defense Policy for 2014: Look to EisenhowerRecent discussions amongst Republicans regarding US Defense force structure have revealed an ongoing disagreement between two camps within the party. Military Hawks, citing th...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Is Abbott spreading Australia too thin?Two months ago, as Prime Minister Abbott's globalist reflexes were becoming increasingly apparent, I offered a perspective from Washington that the US should welcome a more pr...
By Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Sea-based nuclear-weapons: Military needs and political consequencesHow will the deployment of ballistic missile submarines by China and India affect the Indo-Pacific strategic landscape? What effect will these deployments have on stability in...
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / National Security Human Capital / Technology & National Security
Is the U.S. Air Force Set for a "Crash Landing"?In its recently-released thirty-year strategy document, the Air Force lays out a clear vision for its future. Unlike many government strategy documents, America’s Air Force: A...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Testing North Korea’s IntentionsNorth Korean diplomatic offensives are usually short-lived and end in disappointment. Even so, it would be a mistake just to ignore Pyongyang’s recent signals that it would li...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Send the U.S. Navy to AustraliaAustralian cooperation with America's ongoing military and humanitarian operations in Iraq is just the latest example of a deep alliance that has flourished for over six decad...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
The Islamic State's Dangerous Influence in AsiaIn places across Indonesia, small collections of political Islamists have “openly pledged their allegiance” to the extremist terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS). One of th...
By Hannah Suh
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: ON THE LINE: The Asia PivotBy Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Kim Jong-un: Starving For PowerThe world is gradually coming to the conclusion that chronic malnutrition in Kim Jong-un’s North Korea is Pyongyang’s problem. After providing the DPRK with more than 12.5 mil...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Tensions Mounting in the East China SeaWaking up to another news article about a close encounter in or above the East China Sea has become routine. But when one looks more closely at the recent developments in thes...
By Zachary Hosford
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital / Middle East Security
#ThinkDefense: CEO Michèle Flournoy and NPR's Tom Bowman's Twitter ChatCNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy (@micheleflournoy) and NPR Pentagon Reporter Tom Bowman (@TBowmanNPR) took to Twitter to chat about today's most pressing national security issues in...
By JaRel Clay
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Pointless PunishmentThe Obama administration has responded to increasing Russian aggression by stepping up its own efforts to inflict economic pain on Moscow and isolate it diplomatically. The Un...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Ely Ratner
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Can America "Just Say No" to China?“One of America’s clearest and most compelling interests is to develop a positive and constructive U.S.-China relationship.” Secretary Kerry’s statement at the recent U.S.-Chi...
By Amy Chang
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Ukraine Crisis Torpedoes Russia-Japan RapprochementOne of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s main objectives since returning to office has been to improve relations with Russia, a goal also sought by Moscow. Both governments...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How Japan Can Raise Costs on Tailored Coercion in the East China SeaAs a previous blog post alluded to, one of the goals of the first workshop in our Maritime Strategy Project, and indeed of the entire initiative, is to understand the drivers ...
By Alexander Sullivan
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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