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Commentary
Defense / National Security Human Capital
Two Cheers for Esper’s Plan to Reassert Civilian Control of the PentagonThe longest-ever gap in civilian leadership atop the Department of Defense came to an end on July 23, when Mark Esper was sworn in as secretary of defense. His presence in the...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Alice Hunt Friend & Mara Karlin
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Technology & National Security
The Rise of Municipal RansomwareLast month’s coordinated ransomware attacks against 23 cities in Texas reflect a troubling trend for America’s cities: bad actors are addicted to the payoff. In the 30 years s...
By Kara Frederick
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Welcome to the New Phase of US-China Tech Competition
Commentary
It came without a breaking news alert or presidential tweet, but the technological competition with China entered a new phase last month. Several developments quietly heralded...
By Ashley Feng & Lorand Laskai
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Commentary
Energy, Economics & Security / National Security Law
How to Reform IEEPAOver the weekend, President Trump cited a 1977 statute, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as providing the legal authority he would need to carry throug...
By Peter Harrell
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Commentary
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
In Military-Civil Fusion, China is Learning Lessons from the United States and Starting to InnovateChina’s national strategy of “military-civil fusion” (军民融合) is provoking some anxiety in Washington.1 There are concerns the United States could be challenged, or even outrigh...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Commentary
Defense / National Security Law
What would John McCain do?A year ago, the world lost Sen. John McCain. The global response to his passing — largely grief and appreciation from allies and democratic activists, mostly silence from adve...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Balkans Will Pay a Heavy Price for China's Global Ambitions
Commentary
Since President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan in 2013, framing it as an overland strategy to connect Asia to Europe, China’s inroads in the W...
By Karina Barbesino & Kristine Lee
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Here’s How Trump Should Have Approached Greenland
Commentary
The news that U.S. President Donald Trump was pushing to purchase Greenland probably didn’t take its government entirely by surprise. The United States has long harbored desig...
By Jim Townsend
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital
Every Marine a Blue-Haired Quasi-Rifleperson?All the U.S. military services suffer a shortage of competent and experienced cyber talent. But with a tiny pool of eligible candidates willing to do work for the Department o...
By Emma Moore & Nina Kollars
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What Would a Larger Chinese Presence Mean for the Middle East?
Commentary
The Middle East has emerged as a new theater of U.S.-China great power competition. Today, America’s military presence in the region coupled with its strong diplomatic relatio...
By Daniel Kliman
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital
Perceptions of the Military CommunitySharpening America’s strategic edge and sustaining the U.S. military advantage is about more than technology and budgets. Crucially, it is also about people: the soldiers, sai...
By Kayla M. Williams
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How China's Military Is Becoming Stronger
The PRC claims that its policy for national defense is inherently defensive. However, the scope and scale of what the PLA may be called upon to defend is expanding, motivated ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Commentary
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Weaponizing Biotech: How China’s Military Is Preparing for a ‘New Domain of Warfare’Under Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy, the PLA is sponsoring research on gene editing, human performance enhancement, and more. We may be on the verge of a brave new...
By Elsa B. Kania & Wilson VornDick
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The Chinese Military Reforms and Transforms in the “New Era”
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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been undergoing a far-reaching transformation with strategic implications for the military balance in the region and beyond. Sta...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Why Are Deepfakes So Effective?Public opinion shifts, skewed election results, mass confusion, ethnic violence, war. All of these events could easily be triggered by deep fakes—realistic seeming but falsifi...
By Martijn Rasser
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Setting the Stage for U.S. Leadership in 6GEvery day there are more headlines about China’s rise in 5G, the next generation of wireless communications technologies, and the economic and national security risksto the Un...
By Martijn Rasser
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The U.S. or China? Europe Needs to Pick a Side
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Amid ten consecutive weeks of protest in Hong Kong, Beijing is looking to a seemingly unlikely place for support: Europe. In recent days, Chinese ambassadors across the contin...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Rachel Rizzo
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Commentary
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
The Old World and the Middle KingdomEurope is beginning to face up to the challenges posed by a rising China. From the political debates roiling European capitals over the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei...
By Julianne Smith & Torrey Taussig
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Strategy or Straitjacket? Three Reasons Why People Are Still Arguing About the National Defense Strategy
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“It feels so weird to not intervene in the Middle East. I know we’re trying to avoid getting sucked in, but it’s hard to say no.” These were the words my colleague uttered dur...
By Chris Dougherty
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The U.S. Abandoned Iraq. Don’t Repeat History in Afghanistan
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The announcement of a peace agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban is said to be imminent, after years of combat and months of negotiation. The U.S. will reportedly promis...
By David H. Petraeus & Vance Serchuk
