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Bensahel: A Step on the Path Toward Stability
The bilateral security agreement was a necessary step toward long-term stability in Afghanistan, but it is not sufficient by itself. Without it, however, Afghanistan would hav...
By Nora Bensahel
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Hendrix: The Navy Has No Strategy? A Response to Randy Forbes
By all measures Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., is a maritime strategist and a supporter of the United States Navy. He is chairman of the House Armed Services Seapower Subcommittee....
By Jerry Hendrix
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Video: Dr. Nora Bensahel on "Federated Defense in the Middle East"
By Nora Bensahel
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Interview: "Does America Have the Right Strategy to Take on ISIS?"
By Richard Fontaine
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Some thoughts about how the Army could better tell its story to the American people
The United States Army is struggling to explain its relevance as it returns home from 13 years at war. The American people and their lawmakers are increasingly averse to large...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Cuts to defense spending are hurting our national security
This summer’s dramatic global events — from the rise of the Islamic State, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, war between Hamas and Israel, violent confrontations and air strikes i...
By Amb. Eric S. Edelman & Michèle Flournoy
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A Conservative Defense Policy for 2014: Look to Eisenhower
Recent discussions amongst Republicans regarding US Defense force structure have revealed an ongoing disagreement between two camps within the party. Military Hawks, citing t...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Interview: US Responds to the Islamic State
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Is the U.S. Air Force Set for a "Crash Landing"?
In its recently-released thirty-year strategy document, the Air Force lays out a clear vision for its future. Unlike many government strategy documents, America’s Air Force: A...
By Paul Scharre
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Interview: Michèle Flournoy on PBS NewsHour on fighting the Islamic State
By Michèle Flournoy
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To Defeat ISIL, Empower Sunni Iraqis and Syrians
Thirteen years after 9/11, Islamic militants have seized a state-sized territory in the heart of the Middle East, and the United States is struggling to determine how to respo...
By Paul Scharre
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Our Unrealist President
Even before his presidency began, Barack Obama articulated a foreign-policy course markedly different from that of his immediate predecessors. Not only did he present himself ...
By Elbridge Colby
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Six Strategies Obama Could Use to Fight the Islamic State
After a summer in which Islamic State militants have rampaged through Iraq and Syria, declared an Islamic caliphate, recruited extremists from abroad and claimed credit for de...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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#ThinkDefense: CEO Michèle Flournoy and NPR's Tom Bowman's Twitter Chat
CNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy (@micheleflournoy) and NPR Pentagon Reporter Tom Bowman (@TBowmanNPR) took to Twitter to chat about today's most pressing national security issues in...
By JaRel Clay
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Airpower’s Remarkable Accomplishment
The Pentagon’s announcement on Monday that little more than a dozen airstrikes managed to blunt ISIL’s advances, along with media reports that the bombings enabled 20,000 trap...
By Charles Dunlap & USAF (Ret.)
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With Shrinking Budgets, Pentagon Should Rely More on Guard, Reserve Troops
The release of the 2014 National Defense Panel reportlanded with a quiet thud last week as most of Washington headed out for August vacations. Much delayed from its original c...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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The Shadow Wars of the 21st Century
War is morphing. Today’s headlines are dominated by the conflicts in Gaza, Iraq and Ukraine, which little resemble the large, conventional state versus state wars that dominat...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Beyond UCLASS: Preparing the Navy for Next Generation Warfare
The United States is the world’s leading military power in large part because it employs both the best military technologies in the world and the best-trained force to effecti...
By Michael Horowitz
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Getting Unmanned Naval Aviation Right
The issue of when and how the U.S. Armed Forces fully integrate unmanned and increasingly autonomous surveillance and strike platforms into their inventory is one of the most ...
By Shawn Brimley
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The Case for U.S. Arms Sales to Vietnam
When Beijing built a deep-sea drilling platform squarely in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone earlier this summer, it once again flouted widely accepted rules and sought to ex...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine