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Four Reasons Why Talking to North Korea Would Be Smart Strategy
Commentary
It seems fair to say the Trump administration’s policy on whether to engage in direct diplomatic talks with Kim Jong-Un’s regime in North Korea is still developing. It’s time ...
By Jacob Stokes
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China Won’t Fix North Korea—Focus on These Four Areas Instead
Commentary
Kim Jong Un’s North Korea continues to make one provocative move after another: It keeps firing off missiles and detonating nuclear devices and recently used chemical weapons ...
By Jacob Stokes & Alexander Sullivan
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Russia and China’s Enduring Alliance
Commentary
Several commentators, among them Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute and Edward Luttwak of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, have suggested that U.S. President...
By Jacob Stokes
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The Sino-Russo Rundown
Commentary
Russia and China seem to be growing closer by the day. In May 2015, Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Russia. As China’s official media opined at the time, “China and Russia a...
By Jacob Stokes & Alexander Sullivan
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Reforming the National Security Council: What the Next President Needs to Know
Commentary
Last week, the Washington Post reported that the White House has just finished an extensive internal review and developed a plan to reshape the National Security Council (NSC)...
By Shawn Brimley, Julianne Smith & Jacob Stokes
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Video: 1LT Andrew J. Bacevich, Jr., USA Fellowship
By Jacob Stokes, Katherine Kidder, Michèle Flournoy & Shawn Brimley
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China's Road Rules
Commentary
While the eyes of the world focus on China’s aggression in the seas to its east, China’s leaders are looking west. At the end of March, China’s National Development and Reform...
By Jacob Stokes
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Just Another Likely Russian Tactical Move
The cease-fire agreed to on Thursday by the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France might represent a positive step on the road toward ending the year-long conflict in ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Obama's National Security Strategy: A Policy of ‘Sustainment’
Commentary
Perhaps the most important function of any National Security Strategy (NSS) comes in articulating an administration’s worldview, rather than detailing a specific to-do list. T...
By Jacob Stokes
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What Use is the National Security Strategy?
Rarely does the release of a bureaucratic document have geopolitical impact. The National Security Strategy, which the Obama administration will release on Friday, is a stark ...
By Jacob Stokes
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The Real U.S.-Iran Dilemma: What Happens After a Nuclear Deal?
There is a fierce debate in both the United States and Iran about the possible implications of a nuclear agreement for broader relations between the two states after thirty-fi...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Jacob Stokes & Nicholas Heras
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SOTU: Jacob Stokes on the National Security Strategy
The national security portions of the State of the Union should preview a new National Security Strategy, the first since 2010. Both should directly address the world we live ...
By Jacob Stokes
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The New Arab Cold War
A bitter proxy war is being waged in the Middle East. It stretches from Iraq to Lebanon and reaches into North Africa, taking lives in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt's Western Des...
By Jacob Stokes
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Linking U.S. Statecraft to Grand Strategy
Commentary
Americans – both elites and the public – are currently engaged in a heated debate about the future direction of U.S. foreign policy. As we outlined in our previous piece, the ...
By Julianne Smith & Jacob Stokes
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Video: Eighth Annual Conference: 1Lt Andrew J. Bacevich, Jr., USA, Fellowship Presentation
By Jacob Stokes & Shawn Brimley
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How America Must Lead
Recently, foreign policy watchers have been engaged in a frantic bout of hand-wringing over whether America will continue to play the role of global leader. Amid that discussi...
By Jacob Stokes & Julianne Smith
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Obama Needs a New National Security Strategy
When you work on the president’s national security staff, you never feel like there are enough hours in the day. Whether you are managing Ukraine, Syria, South Sudan or the So...
By Jacob Stokes & Julianne Smith
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After the Awakening: Future Security Trends in the Middle East
December 2013 marked three years since the beginning of the Arab Awakening. The tumult of the last three years has rocked the region and beyond. And the coming year promises c...
By Jacob Stokes
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What a Deal with Iran Needs
Today, CNAS released a paper by my colleague Dr. Colin H. Kahl that provides some important context for the talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries that took place earlier t...
By Jacob Stokes
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Defense Spending: How the Pentagon can cut costs - and come out stronger
The Department of Defense faces a stark budgetary choice that will profoundly affect the future of the U.S. military. During past drawdowns, DOD chose to save money by cutting...
By Jacob Stokes, Joel Smith, Katherine Kidder, Nora Bensahel, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
