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Heartland Security
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Executive Summary The American Century earned its name from two phenomena: the paramount global leadership of the United States and the meteoric rise of the average American’s...
By Harry Krejsa
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Navigating Dangerous Pathways
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The ongoing integration of new technologies by U.S. and Russian militaries – particularly cyber, space, long-range strike, missile defenses, autonomous systems, and big data a...
By James N. Miller, Jr. & Richard Fontaine
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The Financing of Nuclear and other Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation
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Executive Summary The financiers of proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) traditionally have been states seeking to expand their military capabi...
By Jonathan Brewer
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Battlefield Singularity
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Although technological advantage has been a key pillar of U.S. military power and national competitiveness, China is starting to catch up in its quest to become a “science and...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Taming Sea Dragons
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Executive Summary In his 2010 book, titled Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power, Robert Kaplan asserted that the Indian Ocean “is at the heart of the wor...
By Sean Liedman
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Energy, Economic Growth, and U.S. National Security
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Summary It has been nearly two years since Congress lifted the ban on the export of crude oil from the United States. In 2015, a Center for a New American Security (CNAS) repo...
By David Gordon, Divya P. Reddy, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Neil Bhatiya & Edoardo Saravalle
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A Brief History of Defense Budget Instability
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The Department of Defense (DoD) has lurched from one budgetary crisis to another for nearly a decade, through a series of continuing resolutions, short-term budget deals, and ...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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Contain, Enforce, and Engage
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Foreword The United States ended a thirty-five-year diplomatic vacuum with Tehran with one objective in mind: to stop it from developing a nuclear weapon. The Joint Comprehens...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg, Ilan Goldenberg, Elisa Catalano Ewers, Jarrett Blanc, Ariel E. Levite & Karim Sadjadpour
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A Space Policy for the Trump Administration
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The administration of Donald Trump finds itself in an exciting and challenging position with regard to space. It is the first administration of the 21st century not to have it...
By Jerry Hendrix & Adam Routh
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Deir Azzour Tribal Mapping Project
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About Deir Azzour Syria’s Deir Azzour governorate encompasses the two most important remaining wilayat (provinces) of ISIS’ would-be caliphate, Wilayat al-Furat/Wilayat al-...
By Nicholas Heras, Bassam Barabandi & Nidal Betare
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A New Era in U.S.-Russian Strategic Stability
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For more than two decades following the end of the Cold War, military conflict between the United States and Russia seemed highly implausible. While relations were sometimes r...
By James N. Miller, Jr. & Richard Fontaine
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Gray Zones in the Middle East
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and trans-Sahara regions are undergoing a period of instability and state collapse, with active civil wars raging in four of the most i...
By Nicholas Heras
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Gender Equality as a National Security Priority
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The Obama administration made efforts to advance gender equality around the world one of its core national security and foreign policy priorities, based on the premise that co...
By Julia M. Santucci
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The Power of Example
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When I chose a career in foreign policy and national security, I never considered the fact that I was entering a historically male-dominated profession. In a purely abstract w...
By Laura Rosenberger
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After Paris
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The dust is now settling on President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. This decision was a ...
By David Gordon, Divya P. Reddy & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Risk Friction
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Some of the friction points in the Civil-Military relationship center around how different actors view the risk associated with large force deployments. In the past 25 years, ...
By LtCol Dave Mueller
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Getting it Righter, Faster
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Humanity is fascinated by prediction failures. The failure to predict the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has replaced the failure to predict the Japanese attack on Pear...
By Dr. Kathryn McNabb Cochran & CDR Gregory Tozzi
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From Reform to Revolution
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A New Phase in U.S.–Egyptian Relations The United States has long looked to Egypt as a key partner in the Middle East. Egypt’s adherence to the Camp David Accords is fundament...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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The "Section 702" Surveillance Program
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Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is an important intelligence tool that will expire on December 31, 2017, unless Congress reauthorizes it. Here’s wh...
By Adam Klein, Madeline Christian, Matt Olsen & Tristan Campos
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New Russia Sanctions from Congress
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Congress adopted new sanctions in late July to codify and significantly expand U.S. financial restrictions on Russia and tightly constrain the president’s exercise of policy i...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg, Neil Bhatiya & Edoardo Saravalle
