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What’s Worse Than Brexit? This.
Commentary
It’s official: the delayed parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s initial Brexit deal with the European Union is now scheduled for Jan. 15. May has had a brutal co...
By Rachel Rizzo
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If Trump Wants to Get Out of Syria, He Should Strike a Deal With Russia
Commentary
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American forces from Syria is a mistake. But if he insists on going ahead with it, the best option for the United States is ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Why China’s Military Wants to Beat the US to a Next-Gen Cell NetworkThe race for 5G — the next-generation cell-network technology that promises high speed, low latency, and high throughput — has emerged as a new frontier of rivalry in U.S.-Chi...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
To Retain Today’s Talent, the DoD Must Support Dual-Professional CouplesTalent management in the Department of Defense has received a great deal of critical attention over the last few years, but much of this thinking has centered on how the milit...
By Tom Barron
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A New Cold War Has Begun
Commentary
In June 2005, I published a cover story in the Atlantic, “How We Would Fight China.” I wrote that, “The American military contest with China … will define the twenty-first cen...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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How to Hit Russia Where It Hurts
Commentary
Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, its war in eastern Ukraine, its interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and other aggressive acts against the United States an...
By Peter Harrell
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A Question of Statecraft
Commentary
Any Western policymaker working in the field of national security over the past decade has had to grapple with the same disheartening reality: the structures and processes tha...
By Julianne Smith
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Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
The decision by President Trump to withdraw 7,000 of the roughly 14,000 American troops left in Afghanistan, possibly by summer, has raised new concerns about his impulsive be...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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In a single tweet, Trump destroys U.S. policy in the Middle East
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With his decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria, President Trump hands a huge New Year’s gift to President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamic State, the Kremlin and Tehran....
By Victoria Nuland
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America’s Yo-Yo Diet in the Middle East
Commentary
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria is a mistake. But unlike so many of his other ill-considered moves, this one is completely conventiona...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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In an Era of Divided Government, China Can Unite
The televised bickering between President Trump and top Democratic leaders illustrates that, if political leaders find any consensus in 2019, it won’t be on the border wall. N...
By Richard Fontaine
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Congress must face reality in exposing Russian aggressionThe shakeup of members of the new Congress provides an opportunity for changing United States foreign policy. After two years of criticizing much of what the Trump administrat...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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The Eroding Balance of Terror
Commentary
Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars,” the American nuclear strategist Bernard Brodie wrote in 1946. “From now on its chief purpose mu...
By Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr.
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Congress Can Help the United States Lead in Artificial IntelligenceThis week the U.S. Congress will hold hearings focusing on the Defense Department’s progress on artificial intelligence, a critical technology area. On the agenda is the new N...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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Pompeo’s Speech in Brussels Was Tone-Deaf and Arrogant
Commentary
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo set himself an impossible task for his speech in Brussels on Tuesday: take President Donald Trump’s disparaging and often contradictory remarks ...
By Julianne Smith
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Give Saudi Arabia a Take It or Leave It Deal
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President Donald Trump released a statement on November 20 in which he supported Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s (MBS) claim that he had nothing to do with t...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Kaleigh Thomas
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National Security Human Capital Program
There Really Is No Place For Hazing In A Professional MilitaryThe vigorous Twitter response to the recent piece “There’s A Reason For All That Hazing And Ass-Chewing, And We Shouldn’t Ignore It” highlighted a need to disentangle a few ty...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Can the U.S. Reinstate “Maximum Pressure” on North Korea?
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The diplomatic sprint to North Korean denuclearization has slowed to a crawl. Earlier last month, North Korea abruptly canceled talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,...
By Eric Brewer
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To punish the Saudis, protect the Jamal Khashoggis still at work
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Senate leaders who emerged from a closed-door briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel on Tuesday were unequivocal: Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was directly inv...
By Vance Serchuk
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Progressives Should Embrace the Politics of Defense
In his essay on what a progressive national security agenda should look like, Van Jackson proposes to stretch the common progressive position of anti-militarism to a more real...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
