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The Impact of U.S. Sanctions on Iranian Oil
This conversation originally appeared in The Iran Primer. On April 22, the Trump Administration announced that it will stop providing sanctions exemptions to countries that im...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Measures of Power
Andrew Walter Marshall, a former strategist at the RAND Corporation who served as head of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment from its founding in 1973 until his retiremen...
By Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr.
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Against Atrophy: Party Organisations in Private Firms
Commentary
Beginning in 2015, foreign companies operating in China began to notice—some for the first time—the increasing presence of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organisations within t...
By Jude Blanchette
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Don’t Count on DHS to Resist Trump’s Worst Impulses
Commentary
Trump is in the midst of a purge at the Department of Homeland Security, evidently aimed at implementing more severe immigration and border security policies. Last week he ous...
By Carrie Cordero & Garrett M. Graff
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Killer Apps
Commentary
The nation that leads in the development of artificial intelligence will, Russian President Vladimir Putin proclaimed in 2017, “become the ruler of the world.” That view has b...
By Paul Scharre
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Implementing the National Defense Strategy Demands Operational Concepts for Defeating Chinese and Russian Aggression
Commentary
Summary The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) shifted the Department of Defense (DoD) away from a strategy focused on counterterrorism and deterring regional threats like I...
By Chris Dougherty
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Russia and China are outwitting America
Commentary
With U.S. politics as polarized as at any point in modern history, it would seem an unlikely moment for a new bipartisan consensus about U.S. foreign policy to emerge. Yet tha...
By Vance Serchuk
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Learning Without Fighting: New Developments in PLA Artificial Intelligence War-Gaming
Commentary
A lack of recent experience in combat is often characterized as a major liability and potential disadvantage for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in any future confl...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Future of the Two-State Solution Is at Stake
Commentary
As Israelis go to the polls Tuesday, a depressing electoral campaign comes to a close. This election could lead to annexation of the West Bank and could have other profound im...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Operation Obstacle Course: How China Has Disrupted Negotiations with North Korea
Commentary
As the United States pushes North Korea toward denuclearization, it should focus more on the Chinese lifeline to this rogue regime. An ally and neighbor of North Korea, China ...
By Ashley Feng
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From Truman to Trump, why Kansas City matters to NATO
Commentary
Last week in Washington, D.C., representatives from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 29 member states marked the 70th anniversary of the transatlantic alliance. They c...
By Derek Chollet & Richard Fontaine
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Knowing when to walk: What is the best alternative to a formal US-Saudi nuclear agreement?
Commentary
For years, Washington has been working to finalize a deal with Riyadh in regard to Saudi Arabia’s planned nuclear energy program. Although negotiations for this deal—known as ...
By Eric Brewer
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NATO Secretary General sounds notes of caution for alliance
Commentary
Today Jens Stoltenberg became the first NATO Secretary General to address a joint session of Congress, where he touted the alliance's success and emphasized the continuing nee...
By Richard Fontaine
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Respond to INF Collapse with Blunt Layer, Not a Repeat of Euromissiles
The INF Treaty has collapsed on the basis of Russian violation. Many seem to think that we are on the verge of a repeat of the 1980s, complete with Russian missiles aimed at E...
By Elbridge Colby & Walter B. Slocombe
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Helping Special Needs Families and Improving Military Readiness
Commentary
The Department of Defense (DoD) is moving out on efforts to rebuild the warfighting readiness of the joint force with the objective of reducing the number of nondeployable ser...
By Lt Col Brad Orgeron
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NATO Needs Solidarity for Its 70th Birthday
NATO marks its 70th anniversary this week—a remarkable milestone for a military alliance made up of 29 (soon to be 30) separate member states. But the big commemoration, sched...
By Julianne Smith
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Why Trump’s sanctions aren’t working
Commentary
On March 22, President Trump tweeted that he ordered the “withdrawal” of North Korea sanctions. It is still unclear whether he pulled back an upcoming package of North Korea s...
By David Cohen
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The Building of Russia's Geopolitical Momentum
Commentary
Since returning to office in 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pursued a course of action that has enabled him to significantly enhance Russia’s position on the globa...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The House Intelligence Committee's Dangerous Descent into Partisan Politics
Commentary
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is imploding. On Thursday, its nine Republican members demanded the resignation of the committee's chairman, Adam Schiff, ...
By Carrie Cordero
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Polybius, Applied History, and Grand Strategy in an Interstitial Age
Commentary
Sometime around 118 B.C., a boar-hunting octogenarian cantering through southern Greece suddenly fell off his horse. The sprightly retiree — who ended up succumbing to his inj...
By Iskander Rehman
