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Around the Table with Metin Toksoz-Exley
Commentary
Around the Table is a three-question interview series from the Make Room email newsletter. Each edition features a conversation with a peer in the national security community ...
By Metin Toksoz-Exley
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The Missing Context in America's Competition with China
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We need to drop the talk of a new “cold war” to describe the tense us-china rivalry. It isn’t one. Instead, it’s an unprecedented contest between two economic powerhouses with...
By Martijn Rasser
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What Is Known About ISIS-K Funding in Afghanistan?
Commentary
The horrific Aug. 26 complex attack against Afghan civilians and U.S. Marines at the Kabul airport has put international attention on the Islamic State in Khorasan (ISIS-K), a...
By Alex Zerden
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Ignoring the National Guard is dangerous
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The reliance on the National Guard to fulfill wartime personnel demands marks a transition from a strategic reserve to an operational reserve, in which the Guard meets similar...
By Nathalie Grogan
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To Compete With Beijing, the Quad Must Remain Pro-Asia, Not Anti-China
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The Quad must navigate the resulting complex set of regional attitudes toward the China-U.S. rivalry...
By Zachary Durkee
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Why America Can’t Build Allied Armies
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The United States’ partners are often uninterested in building militaries that can fight....
By Rachel Tecott Metz
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The Right Way to Structure Cyber Diplomacy
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The State Department is once again confronting the challenge of how to organize itself to cope with new international challenges — not those of wartime, but ones created by ra...
By Laura Bate & Natalie Thompson
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Washington and Seoul Seek to Diversify the South Korea-US Alliance Through Cyber
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The Biden-Moon summit signaled that Pyongyang will not continue to dominate all political aspects of the South Korea-U.S. alliance....
By Jason Bartlett
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Robert D. Kaplan on why America can recover from failures like Afghanistan and Iraq
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There they were in the flesh: wizened veterans of the Spanish-American War from 1898 marching a few feet away from me at the Memorial Day parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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From Forever Wars to Great-Power Wars: Lessons Learned from Operation Inherent Resolve
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It is important that the Pentagon does not relegate the lessons learned from its recent operational experience in the Middle East to the trash bin....
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Becca Wasser
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Take Time to Judge Taliban’s Actions, Not Words
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The United States and its like-minded partners must condition diplomatic recognition on the Taliban meeting human rights and counterterrorism standards....
By Lisa Curtis
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Sharper: The Future of European Leadership
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When President Biden declared that "America is back," many European partners breathed a sigh of relief that the future may bring a much-desired era of stability—and predictabi...
By Carisa Nietsche, Nicholas Lokker & Anna Pederson
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From Desert Storm to Inherent Resolve: The Evolution of Airpower
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On June 27, U.S. fighter jets struck weapons storage facilities used by Iranian proxy groups Kataib Hizballah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada in retaliation for launching drone a...
By Becca Wasser & Stacie Pettyjohn
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From Ethnic Nationalism to Social Media: How North Korea Leverages Its Soft Power Abroad
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North Korea continues to find creative ways to soften its negative image abroad through propaganda...
By Jason Bartlett
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Mind the Gap: How China's Civilian Shipping Could Enable a Taiwan Invasion
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The Chinese military now seems to be regularly practicing the execution of amphibious assaults with civilian shipping integrated into the operations...
By Tom Shugart
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US waited too long to withdraw from Afghanistan
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There was no good way for the United States to exit the failed war in Afghanistan....
By Paul Scharre
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The Taliban has seized more cities, despite U.S. efforts to build a strong Afghan military. What happened?
Commentary
U.S. security assistance fails when U.S. influence fails....
By Rachel Tecott Metz
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Sharper: The Budget
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The defense budget and its $715 million price tag accounts for much of the U.S. government's discretionary spending every year, but where will (and should) this money go in th...
By Anna Pederson
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Commercial satellites — not U.S. intelligence — revealed China’s missile program
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The proliferation of commercial satellites has upended this near-monopoly on government intelligence gathering....
By Erik Lin-Greenberg & Theo Milonopoulos
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Cuba Needs a Free Internet
Commentary
The online tug of war between dictator and dissident is nothing new. But the nature of that war is changing, and tomorrow’s digital battles will feature greater decentralizati...
By Richard Fontaine & Kara Frederick
