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Keeping America's Military Lead: A Front Opens in Congress
Along with many of us at CNAS, I have been seeking to draw attention to the growing challenges to U.S. military superiority and the consequent need for the country to focus mo...
By Elbridge Colby
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Strategic Posture Review: South Korea
Thanks to its comprehensive democratization and its “Miracle on the Han,” which transformed the Republic of Korea into a developed country, South Korea has realized its aspira...
By Richard Weitz
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Deterrence, Reassurance, and Cost: Part 1
“The dynamic joint defense force envisions active and regular surveillance for seamless response to ‘gray zone scenarios’ between peacetime and wartime.” U.S.-Japan Allied Mar...
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Responding to Crises, SCO Finally Embraces Expansion
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Sept. 12-13 may have been one of the organization’s most important. After years of stasis, the g...
By Richard Weitz
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Is Abbott spreading Australia too thin?
Two months ago, as Prime Minister Abbott's globalist reflexes were becoming increasingly apparent, I offered a perspective from Washington that the US should welcome a more pr...
By Ely Ratner
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Sea-based nuclear-weapons: Military needs and political consequences
How will the deployment of ballistic missile submarines by China and India affect the Indo-Pacific strategic landscape? What effect will these deployments have on stability in...
By Elbridge Colby
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The Islamic State's Dangerous Influence in Asia
In places across Indonesia, small collections of political Islamists have “openly pledged their allegiance” to the extremist terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS). One of th...
By Hannah Suh
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Tensions Mounting in the East China Sea
Waking up to another news article about a close encounter in or above the East China Sea has become routine. But when one looks more closely at the recent developments in thes...
By Zachary Hosford
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When it Comes to Nonproliferation, China Has Been a ‘Free Rider’
When asked recently by New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman whether China, as the “biggest energy investor in Iraq,” should behave more like a stakeholder there, U.S. P...
By Richard Weitz
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Islamic State’s #1 Export: The Continuing Relevance of Counterterrorism
In places across Indonesia, small collections of political Islamists have “openly pledged their allegiance” to the extremist terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS). One of th...
By Hannah Suh
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Pointless Punishment
The Obama administration has responded to increasing Russian aggression by stepping up its own efforts to inflict economic pain on Moscow and isolate it diplomatically. The Un...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Ely Ratner
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Can America "Just Say No" to China?
“One of America’s clearest and most compelling interests is to develop a positive and constructive U.S.-China relationship.” Secretary Kerry’s statement at the recent U.S.-Chi...
By Amy Chang
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How Japan Can Raise Costs on Tailored Coercion in the East China Sea
As a previous blog post alluded to, one of the goals of the first workshop in our Maritime Strategy Project, and indeed of the entire initiative, is to understand the drivers ...
By Alexander Sullivan
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: A Fading Star?
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) stands at a pivotal point in its history. On the one hand, the growing ties between Russia and China as well as the withdrawal of t...
By Richard Weitz
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Dueling Narratives, Dueling Visions of ASEAN
China-U.S. relations retain a high degree of stability and do not operate within a zero-sum game. They do, however, operate against the background music of dueling narratives ...
By Cecilia Zhou & Patrick M. Cronin
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NATO Must Adapt to Counter Russia’s Next-Generation Warfare
A recently released paper of the Defense Committee of the U.K. House of Commons on Russia’s seizure of Crimea and the implications for Western security concludes that “events ...
By Richard Weitz
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Chinese Assertiveness Has Asia on Edge: How to Respond
A recent Pew Research Poll made clear that publics in East Asia are increasingly uneasy about the destabilizing effects of China’s maritime assertiveness. Among the eight coun...
By Ely Ratner
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A Bold Maritime Strategy for Taiwan
Taiwan’s future security hinges on developing a new maritime strategy of active diplomacy and asymmetric defense. Although President Ma Ying-jeou has initiated creative peace ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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A Diversified Portfolio: Regional Responses to Chinese Assertiveness
A recent Pew Research Poll made clear that publics in East Asia are increasingly uneasy about the destabilizing effects of China’s maritime assertiveness. Among the eight coun...
By Ely Ratner
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China Advances on Missile Defense, With Eye on Dissuading Rivals
On July 23, China conducted its third declared ballistic missile defense (BMD) test in the past four years, with the Defense Ministry announcing afterward that the test had “a...
By Richard Weitz