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How to Take Back Patriotism
President Donald Trump, in dependable jingoistic fashion, has declared Jan. 20, the date of his inauguration, an official day to venerate patriotism. America has always been a...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Bannon’s ‘Strategic Initiatives’ Cabal Inside the NSC Is Dangerous Hypocrisy
It has been a tough few days for the National Security Council. The news that Trump’s political guru Stephen Bannon secured a place on the NSC’s Principals Committee was troub...
By Julianne Smith & Derek Chollet
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Is Trump Trying to Tweet Us Into a War with Iran?
On Wednesday, the White House put out a statement from National Security Advisor Michael Flynn criticizing Iran’s recent ballistic missile test as well as a number of attacks ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Hubris, Distrust, Disorder
In their early weeks and months in office, presidents and their advisers tend to commit the same structure and process errors, hobbling their administrations until they stop m...
By Phillip Carter
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With Friends Like Us
On his eighth day in office, President Donald Trump signed an order purporting to keep America safe by keeping terrorists out. In reality, the order does little to keep us saf...
By Phillip Carter
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Antonin Scalia, Full-Time Originalist
The Washington Post has published an op-ed by Washington lawyer David Dorsen under the headline “Antonin Scalia, Part-Time Liberal.” Dorsen contends that Justice Scalia “was p...
By Adam Klein
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The Coming Chaos: What to Expect From Trump’s National Security Team
No one knows with any degree of certainty what type of foreign policy approach President Donald Trump and his team might pursue. But important data points from the transition ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Is Trump Even Ready to Host America’s Most Important Ally?
Hats off to the British embassy for beating out the foreign competition and landing the first post-inaugural meeting between the president of the United States and a foreign l...
By Julianne Smith
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Theresa May meets Donald Trump - but what does she hope to gain?
On Friday, the Prime Minister Theresa May will be the first foreign premier to meet the 45th US President, Donald Trump. Never has the special relationship been so controversi...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Worried about the Size of the U.S. Navy? Rearm the Coast Guard
The United States’ peer naval competitors are on the rise, and our Navy is woefully deficient in the small surface combatants that provide global presence during peacetime and...
By CDR Gregory Tozzi
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Civil Order and Governance as Military Responsibilities
In April 2003, as U.S. forces closed in on Baghdad, chaos and disorder began to break out in the city of more than six million residents. As civil order broke down, the lack o...
By LtCol Dave Mueller
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TPP Was Doomed To Fail
America’s exit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership should serve as a breakthrough development to spur widespread prosperity across the United States and build durable economic ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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How Trump can move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem
For years, presidential candidates have promised to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem only to renege after entering office. President Donald Trump appears serious about b...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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If America Refuses to Lead
Just a few months ago, the notion of China as the savior of international order would have struck most as fanciful, even absurd. Yet President Xi Jinping’s debut at Davos last...
By Richard Fontaine & Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Don't panic about 'alternative facts'
Since Donald Trump upended everything we thought we knew about politics, hands have been wrung and ink has been spilled about the "post-factual age." How could the candidate w...
By Neal Urwitz
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These Are Donald Trump’s Biggest Priorities as Commander-in-Chief
Donald Trump’s comments on national security topics both during and after his presidential campaign have been as confounding to Republican national security experts as they ha...
By Shawn Brimley
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Obama’s Foreign-Policy Legacy: The Limits of American Restraint
It was clear from the outset that Obama would preside over national retrenchment. George W. Bush had waged a global war on terror and campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, pursue...
By Richard Fontaine
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McCain’s Excellent White Paper: Smaller Carriers, High-Low Weapons Mix, Frigates, Cheap Fighters
The Senate Armed Services Committee new White Paper positions the committee as a leader in the Pentagon’s effort to rebuild and reform. The SASC offers a road map with key dec...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Trump’s Russia co-operation plan faces big obstacles
For all his shifting policy positions throughout the campaign, president-elect Donald Trump has been consistent on one issue: he would like better ties with Russia. Even befo...
By Richard Fontaine
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In China, North Korea, Trump admin drawing a dangerous 'red line'
In weeks that have been saturated by a presidential farewell address, cabinet confirmation hearings, a press conference from the presidential-elect, and new revelations of pos...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper