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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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Paul Scharre on Automation in the U.S. Military
Podcast
Paul Scharre, senior fellow and director of the CNAS Future of Warfare Initiative, discusses automation and the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System. Hosted by Neal Urwitz....
By Paul Scharre & Neal Urwitz
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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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CNAS President Richard Fontaine on The Hugh Hewitt Show
Podcast
Richard Fontaine joined the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss his latest article for National Review, "Obama’s Foreign-Policy Legacy: The Limits of American Restraint" and how Presi...
By Richard Fontaine
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Likely shift to closer Russian ties under Trump
Richard Fontaine talks to CNBC about America's role in international politics under the Trump administration and what it could mean for other world leaders including Vladimir ...
By Richard Fontaine
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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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Top priorities for Defense Secretary nominee Gen. James Mattis
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Katherine Kidder, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, discusses the challenges facing defense secretary nominee Gen. James Mattis, and the pillars of his polic...
By Katherine Kidder
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Trump staffing failure leaves US vulnerable through transition
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Shawn Brimley, former White House director of strategic planning on the National Security Council, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's failure to staff up the Nation...
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
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Why the United States Is Losing Its Technological Edge
Earlier this month, President-elect Donald Trump drew headlines for his criticism of two major defense programs, the Air Force One replacement and the Joint Strike Fighter (F-...
By Ben FitzGerald
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the wEnter Trump
I’ll admit it. I did not expect to be writing a piece with this title. Like so many on both sides of the Atlantic, I did not expect Donald Trump to win on November 8. But he d...
By Julianne Smith
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Why America’s Space Launch Must be Competitivead
The Sept. 1 pad explosion that resulted in SpaceX losing a Falcon 9 rocket and the associated commercial communications satellite may have been frustrating to those responsibl...
By Adam Routh
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Obama leaves complicated legacy in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria
President Obama came into office with a desire to wind down America’s wars overseas. Today the Middle East is a far more volatile place than it was. Chief foreign affairs corr...
By Michèle Flournoy
