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From Ethnic Nationalism to Social Media: How North Korea Leverages Its Soft Power Abroad
Commentary
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
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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
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A Plan to Secure America's Supply Chains
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Supply chain vulnerabilities are a central component of the global technology competition....
By Martijn Rasser & Megan Lamberth
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Around the Table with Shaan Shaikh
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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 Shaan Shaikh
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Hotels and Free Wi-Fi Are Sitting Ducks for North Korean Cybercriminals
Commentary
The dangerous combination of weak or nonexistent cybersecurity protocols, relaxed travelers and employees, and increased e-commerce and digital financial activity provide an i...
By Jason Bartlett
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The US Army’s new iron triangle: The coming budget crunch and its implications for modernization
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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
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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
Commentary
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.
Commentary
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
