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Sustaining the Third Offset in the Next Administration
After more than a year of speeches, debate, and discussion (much of it curated here at War on the Rocks), the recent fiscal year 2017 (FY17) budget submission finally provides...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Shawn Brimley
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The fear driving Trump's success is tying America's hands in war on terror
Donald Trump is riding a wave of fear to electoral victory across the country. One of the greatest fears driving supporters to Trump is that of the global jihad, led today by ...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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Trump’s donations aside, these are tough times for veterans groups
Donald Trump claimed it took only an hour to raise $6 million for veterans. “We set up the website. I called some friends,” he said. And, just like that, 20 veterans’ groups w...
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Obama Is No George H. W. Bush
President Barack Obama is known to be a great admirer of President George H. W. Bush, who Obama recently said is "one of the more underrated presidents we have ever had." Obam...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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What the U.S.-China Experience Can Teach About Iran’s Future
The results from Iran’s recent elections indicate that reformists and moderates have made gains in both the parliament and the Assembly of Experts—the body that will pick the ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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A blunt defense of interrogations, targeted killings and domestic spying
People living in a democracy in an age of electronic communications can be altogether fickle. After a mass casualty attack, they demand total vengeance on the killers and thei...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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CNAS Commentary: A Bipartisan National Security Agenda for an Election Year
As the country turns its attention to the Democratic and Republican primaries, it is tempting to assume that the United States should postpone any bold national security moves...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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The Right Way to Sanction China
Over the last five years, the United States has struggled to influence Chinese behavior. Washington’s responses to Beijing’s increasingly assertive activities—ranging from eco...
By Eric Lorber
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China is Cruising for a Bruising
China is attempting to create a situation wherein the United States, to uphold international law, will either have to accede to their territorial claims in the South China Sea...
By Jerry Hendrix
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"Late-breaking sexism": why younger women aren’t excited about electing a woman president
How many of us have received a phone call from our mothers these past few weeks, demanding to know why young women aren't lining up behind Hillary Clinton? It's the question t...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Justice Scalia’s Legacy
Justice Antonin Scalia’s views on much of national-security litigation are embodied in an awkward moment during my clerkship interview. Justice Scalia, like most judges, belie...
By Adam Klein
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Doom and Gloom: Five Key Takeaways from the Munich Security Conference
Last weekend, the world’s national security establishment gathered for the annual Munich Security Conference. What was once an exclusively transatlantic affair has become far ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Eurasia's Coming Anarchy
As China asserts itself in its nearby seas and Russia wages war in Syria and Ukraine, it is easy to assume that Eurasia’s two great land powers are showing signs of newfound s...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Does the U.S. Overstate the Threat of Terrorism?
Looking back on the past fifteen years, it is clear that September 11, 2001, dramatically altered the landscape of international security. It brought to light the reality that...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Of Course Women Should Register for the Draft
Women have been serving honorably in the armed forces for as long as the armed forces have existed — they’ve either hidden their gender, seen combat “unofficially,” or served ...
By Amy Schafer
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The Hard Questions about the Selective Service Have Nothing to do with Women in Combat
Representative Duncan Hunter’s proposed legislation requiring women to register for the draft is intentionally provocative. It comes in the wake of both the chief of staff of ...
By Katherine Kidder
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Weighing the Strategic Impact of Killing Civilians in Counter-Militancy
In order to avoid putting ever more boots on the ground, the United States has increasingly turned to using airstrikes and drone strikes to damage a wide range of militant gro...
By Andrew Kenealy
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CNAS Commentary: High Stakes at the Sunnylands Summit
The transformation of U.S.–Southeast Asian relations is the least heralded and yet most forward-looking element of President Barack Obama’s rebalance to Asia. At the upcoming ...
By Derwin Pereira & Patrick M. Cronin
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In Libya, No Unity without Security
In late January, Libya’s internationally recognized parliament overwhelmingly rejected a slate of candidates to lead a proposed national unity government. Several days later, ...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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Confronting China in the South China Sea
On January 29, the USS Curtis Wilbur, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, a Chinese-held islet in the South China Sea that is also cl...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper