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Shades of Gray: Technology, Strategic Competition, and Stability in Maritime Asia
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Amy Chang, Ben FitzGerald, and Van Jackson unpack how proliferating technologies are intersecting with strategic competition, coercive behaviors, and unclear norms to exacerba...
By Amy Chang, Ben FitzGerald & Van Jackson
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Meaningful Human Control in Weapon Systems: A Primer
Dr. Michael Horowitz and Paul Scharre assess statements made by those advocating for meaningful human control and studied the use of weapons today, which have varying degrees ...
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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Preserving the Rules: Countering Coercion in Maritime Asia
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"A combination of active engagement, cost imposition, denial, and offset strategies can best help shape the future order of the Asia-Pacific region."...
By Alexander Sullivan & Patrick M. Cronin
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Playing It Safe: Malaysia's Approach to the South China Sea and Implications for the United States
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In this sixth paper in the Maritime Strategy Series, Prashanth Parameswaran, Associate Editor at The Diplomat, visiting fellow at the ASEAN Studies Center at American Universi...
By Prashanth Parameswaran
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Lessons from the 2013-2014 Israeli-Palestinian Final Status Negotiations
Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg lays out nine lessons and recommendations that should inform future negotiations....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Avoiding Trivia
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The report argues that the United States has strayed from its historic and cultural approach to the world, leaving behind its traditional maritime-focused, technologically inn...
By Jerry Hendrix
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An Introduction to Autonomy in Weapon Systems
20YY Warfare Initiative Director Paul Scharre and Adjunct Senior Fellow Michael Horowitz discuss future military systems incorporating greater autonomy....
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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Reforming the Military Health System
In this white paper, experts Dr. Peter Levin, General H. Hugh Shelton, U.S. Army (ret.), and Dr. Stephen Ondra discuss reforming the military health system and recommend that ...
By General H. Hugh Shelton, Peter L. Levin & Stephen Ondra
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Ideas to Action
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In advance of Dr. Ashton Carter’s upcoming nomination hearing to be Secretary of Defense, CNAS experts have produced a series of commentaries outlining the key issues the 25th...
By Michèle Flournoy, Shawn Brimley, Ilan Goldenberg, Elbridge Colby, Nicholas Heras, Alexander Sullivan, Jacob Stokes, Patrick M. Cronin, Paul Scharre, Van Jackson, Jerry Hendrix, Julianne Smith, Phillip Carter & Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Nuclear Weapons in the Third Offset Strategy: Avoiding a Nuclear Blind Spot in the Pentagon’s New Initiative
Robert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby argues that the Third Offset Strategy focus on how nuclear weapons will factor into the warfighting “regime” the new initiative envisions...
By Elbridge Colby
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Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization
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Phillip Carter and Katherine Kidder examine the growth of military compensation in the post-Cold War era, from 1990 to 2015, as well as the social contract America has with it...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Phillip Carter
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China's Tailored Coercion and Its Rivals' Actions and Responses: What the Numbers Tell Us
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Dr. Christopher Yung and Patrick McNulty provide a groundbreaking data-driven look at how the six claimants of features in the South China Sea have advanced and defended their...
By Patrick McNulty & Dr. Christopher Yung
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Slow Thaw: Testing Possibilities for Cooperation with Iran After a Nuclear Deal
With nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States restarting today, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg,...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Jacob Stokes & Nicholas Heras
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Between Iron Man and Aqua Man
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"Between Iron Man and Aqua Man: Exosuit Opportunities in Maritime Operations" examines how exosuit technology, often considered in the context of special operations or ground ...
By Andrew Herr & Lt. Scott Cheney-Peters
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Battlefields and Boardrooms
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Dr. Nora Bensahel, LTG David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Katherine Kidder, and Kelley Sayler examine the career paths of professional women through the ranks of the U.S. military an...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski, Kelley Sayler, Nora Bensahel & David W. Barno
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Defend, Defect, or Desert?
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The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) are soon to become the center of gravity for security in Afghanistan. In September 2014, U.S. and Afghan leaders signed a Bilateral ...
By Tyler Jost
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Arctic 2015 and Beyond: A Strategy for U.S. Leadership in the High North
Three Arctic experts lay out the challenges and opportunities that face the United States as it assumes the chair of the Arctic Council in April 2015....
By Alexander Wiker, Dr. David Titley & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Warring State: China’s Cybersecurity Strategy
Research Associate Amy Chang explores the political, economic, and military objectives of China’s cybersecurity apparatus; reveals drivers and intentions of Chinese activity i...
By Amy Chang
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The Mission Continues: A Case Study of the Well After Service Model
Oliver Gould and Aaron Scheinberg from The Mission Continues partnered with Monica Matthieu from the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis to eva...
By Oliver Gould, Aaron Scheinberg, MBS, MPA/ID, Monica Matthieu, L.C.S.W. & Ph.D.
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Cost-Imposing Strategies: A Brief Primer
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Dr. Thomas Mahnken, professor at both the Naval War College and Johns Hopkins SAIS, delivers a general but thorough framework for thinking about cost-imposing strategies, a cr...
By Thomas G. Mahnken
