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What Does German History Actually Say About German Defense Spending?
Few aspects are more sensitive in Germany’s fraught relationship with history than the role and status of its military. Indeed, many Germans seem to think that, given its past...
By Elbridge Colby
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Sanctions Can’t Spark Regime Change
Commentary
In the last several decades, financial and economic sanctions have become a key tool of U.S. foreign policy. The Trump administration has made particularly heavy use of this t...
By David Cohen & Zoe Weinberg
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Challenge Accepted: Why America Needs to Confront Its Adversaries in the Gray Zone
Commentary
The return of great-power competition has dominated the national-security discussion in the United States since the release of the 2018 National Defense Strategy. However, lit...
By CDR Bob Jones
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Military and Public Service Policy Forum
Commentary
The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS) held a hearing on potential policies to encourage or require military, national, and public service ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Elsa B. Kania & Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Maximum Pressure on Iran Won’t Work
Commentary
This week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo moved to end sanctions waivers on Iranian oil—a major step to increase financial pressure on Tehran. The new policy, once it goe...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Don’t be Fooled by China’s Belt and Road Rebrand
Commentary
This is a pivotal week for China as President Xi Jinping welcomes roughly 40 world leaders to Beijing to participate in the second Belt and Road forum. The Belt and Road, Xi’s...
By Daniel Kliman
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The National Security Imperative of Protecting User Data
Commentary
Privacy legislation directed at 21st-century technology platforms and internet companies is not just about privacy; it is also important to address modern-day national securit...
By Carrie Cordero
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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
