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The US Army’s new iron triangle: The coming budget crunch and its implications for modernization
Commentary
Each side of the iron triangle comes with its own implications for doctrine, force structure, readiness, posture and modernization....
By Billy Fabian
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Taliban Ascendance in Afghanistan Risks Return of Global Terrorist Hub
Commentary
Walking in the Trump administration’s footsteps, the Biden team is making several miscalculations about the Taliban, which will exacerbate the negative impacts of the withdraw...
By Lisa Curtis
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How the Intelligence Community Can Get Better at Open Source Intel
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The ubiquity and accessibility of this public data disrupts the assumed superiority of the government’s proprietary intelligence sources of methods...
By Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, Jr. (Ret.) & Neil Wiley
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How Personalist Politics is Changing Democracies
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This rapid increase is alarming: Personalist rule brings with it a host of negative outcomes compared to other types of authoritarian systems....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Carisa Nietsche, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright
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The United States Can’t Afford the Brutal Price of Chinese Solar Panels
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Buying Chinese solar panels to reduce emissions is like using gas to put out a fire....
By Henry Wu
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OPEC Standoff: Resetting market share
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Producers such as the UAE want to make money from their assets today and set up robust future asset streams that will be robust to the shift to net zero production....
By Rachel Ziemba
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Israel’s growing ties to China are testing its relationship with the U.S.
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As a sovereign, high-tech, democratic powerhouse, Israel has a fundamental stake in the contest between China and the free world....
By David Feith
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Time for US nuclear strategy to embrace no first use
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No first use is the most meagre of many measures needed to restrain US presidential authority in the nuclear realm....
By Van Jackson
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The Stakes are High
Underneath the veneer of goodwill remain persistent European concerns about the reliability of the United States as a partner, threatening to weaken transatlantic cooperation....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Carisa Nietsche
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Gradually and then Suddenly: Explaining the Navy's Strategic Bankruptcy
The real impediments to urgent change are a lack of consensus on the risks posed by China, a lack of a shared vision for the future of the fleet, and limited options for imple...
By Chris Dougherty
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Debunking the AI Arms Race Theory
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In 2015, a group of prominent AI and robotics researchers signed an open letter warning of the dangers of autonomous weapons. “The key question for humanity today,” they wrote...
By Paul Scharre
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Bipartisan support for taking on China goes only so far
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The embrace of great-power competition comes with a critical caveat. Both parties’ enthusiasm for the concept abruptly ends when it requires doing something politically hard....
By Vance Serchuk
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How the Afghanistan Withdrawal Costs the U.S. With China
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U.S. departure from Kabul could end up undermining, rather than strengthening, America’s strategic hand against China....
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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Rethinking Research Security
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Research security under the China Initiative may damage America’s ability to innovate and continue defining the cutting edge of technological research in the long term....
By Ainikki Riikonen & Emily Weinstein
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Around the Table with Lucas Schleusener
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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 Lucas Schleusener
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Biden Can Keep the Two-State Solution Alive
Commentary
Small details matter a great deal—and they have the potential to become big international headaches....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Dangers of Potential Russian Counter-UAV Technology Exports to Latin America
Commentary
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has proliferated globally, resulting in myriad uses, both military and civilian. With the steady rise in non-military uses comes t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Getting real about US–China cooperation
Commentary
One of the toughest questions in the current frosty era of relations between Washington and Beijing is whether and how to pursue cooperation amid ‘extreme’ geopolitical compet...
By Jacob Stokes
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Pentagon: Diversify Your Orbital Regimes
Commentary
Resilience is a key attribute of any defense space architecture – legacy or disruptive....
By Sarah Mineiro
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Why Biden Should Extend Vaccine Diplomacy to Sanctioned States Like Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea
Extending vaccine diplomacy to heavily sanctioned countries will allow Washington to both hedge against growing Chinese-Russian influence abroad and help alleviate global huma...
By Jason Bartlett
