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Prospects for a defense budget deal
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Susanna joins Government Matters TV to offer insight into negotiations over the National Defense Authorization Act. Watch the conversation here....
By Susanna V. Blume
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Washington Is Never Quite Sure Where It Is at War
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The United States is a nation at war. But for much of the past two decades, a great deal of the Pentagon’s overseas activities would not technically classify as combat, with a...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The War on Apathy
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Right now, Congress has no incentive to rein in America’s military actions around the world. A threat to reinstate the draft would give it one....
By Amy Schafer
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Middle East Security Forum 2017
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In a region long known for its complexity, the Middle East landscape seems to grow more complicated by the week. To help unpack the latest developments—about Iran’s nuclear pr...
By Michèle Flournoy, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Climate Change: The New Asian Drama
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When the Swedish economist and sociologist Gunnar Myrdal wrote his magisterial three volume study of postwar economic and political development in Asia, he questioned whether ...
By Neil Bhatiya
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The United States Can Be a World Leader in AI. Here's How.
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is upon us. Artificial general intelligence—machines that could perform the full range of intellectual tasks better than humans—are...
By Paul Scharre & Alexander Velez-Green
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Washington Has a Bad Case of China ADHD
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As global attention fixes on the Trump administration’s North Korea and Iran policies, the White House is preparing for another consequential policy shift that’s gone almost u...
By Daniel Kliman
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Putting Peace Out of Reach
Despite the past week of violence that rocked Afghanistan, including a wave of major Taliban attacks on Afghan security forces, the Trump administration appears to still be ho...
By Stephen Tankel
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Want to Honor the Vets? Go See This Movie.
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Ancient Greeks knew war intimately, thanks to frequent conflict at the time and norms about military service that existed back then. Despite or maybe because of this intimacy ...
By Phillip Carter
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Why were US soldiers even in Niger? America’s shadow wars in Africa, explained.
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President Trump’s inexplicable fight with the widow of a Green Beret who was killed in Niger has sparked a political firestorm that shows no signs of dying down. It’s also bro...
By Phillip Carter & Andrew Swick
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Trump’s Asian Security Dilemma
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President Trump’s upcoming five-country Asian tour takes place amid deepening worries about security trends across the region. North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs menac...
By Richard Fontaine
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Journalists Aren’t 'Fake News.' They’re Patriots
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On Monday, journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb. She led the research into the Panama Papers, which exposed tens of billions of dollars of stolen money...
By Neal Urwitz
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John McCain's 'Bone Spurs' Comment Shows There's a Deeper Problem in the Military
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Sen. John McCain’s recent comments about the wealthy avoiding service in Vietnam through deferments not only took an unsubtle swipe at the current commander-in-chief, but also...
By Andrew Swick
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US Space Policy Should Aim to Preserve Advantage on the New Frontier
The administration of Donald Trump is the first of the 21st century to not be entirely preoccupied by issues of terrorism and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Such conditions pro...
By Adam Routh & Jerry Hendrix
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Trump's Nov visit can be his defining moment in Asia
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United States President Donald Trump's first official visit to East Asia next month is historic in its combination of low expectations and high potential impact. The President...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Is Beijing Adopting an Ethnonationalist Foreign Policy?
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Around the world, governments from Poland to Myanmar are stoking ethnonationalist sentiment to consolidate support around otherwise divisive political agendas. For smaller or ...
By Harry Krejsa & Anthony Cho
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The Necessity of Questioning the Military
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On Thursday morning, I planned to write a pointed screed decrying President Trump’s propensity to view the military community as a problem he can buy off with a check. Then, o...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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A Tale of Two Speeches
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In two widely noticed speeches this week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and President George W. Bush called Americans to a global leadership worthy of the country’s best traditio...
By Richard Fontaine
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“If You’ve Never Been in Combat, You Can’t Even Imagine”
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Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly gave a remarkable performance at Thursday’s White House press briefing, deploying his record of service and sacrifice to defend President Trump’...
By Phillip Carter
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Remembering War
Claudio Magris, Blameless, trans. Anne Milano Appel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), 368 pp., $26.00. CLAUDIO MAGRIS is an academic from Trieste, the quintessential C...
By Robert D. Kaplan
