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Forget F-16s for Taiwan: It's All About A2/AD
The time has come for the United States to consider ending the sale of upgrades for F-16 fighter aircraft to Taiwan and instead shift military sales and cooperation to emphasi...
By Van Jackson
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Solving the THAAD Puzzle in Korea
South Korea has been an ally of the Unites States for over 60 years. Over the decades, there have been numerous defense issues between the two allies. The latest issue hanging...
By David Eunpyoung Jee
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Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program pens an op-ed discussing the state of U.S.-Japan Relations.
At 9:30 AM on April 28, 1952 the U.S.-Japan alliance stood up as the U.S. occupation of Japan stood down. At the end of this month, the U.S.-Japan alliance will step up as Jap...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Japan Leads a New Asian Order
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress later this month will mark the first time a Japanese leader has spoken before America’s premier ven...
By Richard Fontaine
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From Political Taboo to Strategic Hedge: A US Perspective on Ballistic Missile Defense
Ballistic missile defense (BMD) is both expensive and largely unproven;1 so on what basis might we judge its value? This article offers a US perspective about the utility of B...
By Van Jackson
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Let’s Lock in the Rebalance to Asia
America’s rebalance to Asia is real today. Whether it endures as a permanent feature of U.S. foreign and defense policy very much depends on the next several years. A bit of m...
By Shawn Brimley & Jerry Hendrix
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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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Video: Sullivan Discusses Joko Widodo’s Visit To Japan And The New Japan-Indonesia Security Cooperation Agreement
By Alexander Sullivan
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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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Audio: Why an American and an Afghan are optimistic about Afghanistan's future
By Michèle Flournoy
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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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Why North Korea Is So Freaked out by US-ROK Drills
Spring 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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Visiting Fellow Dr. Van Jackson discusses Japan’s militarization
Is Japan striving for military “normalcy,” hedging against uncertainty, or balancing a more assertive China? Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan has increased defense spen...
By Van Jackson
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A Matter of National Security: America Must Support TPP
Some 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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It’s Math
Greg 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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Why China's Growing Defense Budget Matters
So 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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U.S. Security Challenges
On 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 an...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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A New Model of U.S. Defense Cooperation
How 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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Dr. Van Jackson before the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Visiting 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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Note to Ash Carter: Make the Rebalance a Reality
The new secretary of defense needs to make the United States’ “rebalance to the Asia-Pacific” an indisputable fact. Even in the face of global challenges and constrained resou...
By Alexander Sullivan, Patrick M. Cronin & Van Jackson