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26 October 2019

What a Withdrawal From Afghanistan Would Look Like

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By Carter Malkasian  Source Link Over the past two years, a bipartisan consensus has emerged that the United States should leave A...

US and European Support for New Afghan Peace Talks

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Source Link US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and EU envoy Roland Kobia, among other representatives from the European Union, France, ...

NATO’s Lessons from Afghanistan

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Seth Johnston  Source Link ABSTRACT: This article identifies the importance of NATO’s role as a facilitator of multinational colla...

China to give $21 million to Nepal army to help future disaster relief

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Gopal Sharma Source Link FILE PHOTO: Nepal's President Bidhya Devi Bhandari and China's President Xi Jinping inspect an hono...

What True Reciprocity for U.S. and Chinese Diplomats Would Look Like

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Howard W. French  Source Link It’s not every day that one gets a chance to assess a Trump administration decision made on what looks...

Hollywood Is Paying an ‘Abominable’ Price for China Access

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BY BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN  Source Link Hollywood’s China reckoning has come. But unlike the NBA’s recent China debacle , this time ...

The Open Secret of Development Economics

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YAO YANG Source Link BEIJING – This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recognizes Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and ...

Aircraft Carriers, Stealth Bombers and Killer Tanks: China's Military Has Arrived

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by Sebastien Roblin Source Link On January 12, 2019, the Defense Intelligence Agency released an annual report highlighting the...

THE NEW MIDDLE EAST: U.S. MILITARY, RUSSIA'S DIPLOMACY AND CHINA'S MONEY

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BY TOM O'CONNOR   Source Link The United States' decision to abandon its posts in northern Syria was not simply the result o...

When Espionage Skills Are for Sale, So Is Your Security

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Scott Stewart Source Link Anyone with the intent, interest and budget to buy espionage tools and expertise can now acquire the capab...

Iran Is Losing the Middle East, Protests in Lebanon and Iraq Show

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BY HANIN GHADDAR Source Link In less than a month, demonstrations against corruption and a lack of economic reform erupted in both Ir...

With God on Our Side

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ZAHA HASSAN Source Link Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has resurrected a campaign promise to annex all Israeli settlemen...

Turkey's Offensive in Northeastern Syria: The Expected, the Surprising, and the Still Unknown

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Gallia Lindenstrauss, Eldad Shavit Source link Operation Peace Spring, Turkey's third operation in northern Syria since 2016, c...

Turkey: Which countries export arms to Turkey?

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Source Link Many European states have suspended arms exports to Turkey following its military incursion into northern Syria. Its ma...

The World Can Make More Water From the Sea, but at What Cost?

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By  Henry Fountain Source Link THUWAL, Saudi Arabia — Desalinated seawater is the lifeblood of Saudi Arabia, no more so than at King...

With Another Brexit Delay, More Uncertainty—and a Glimpse at Future British Trade

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Kimberly Ann Elliott Source Link Despite saying that he would “rather be dead in a ditch” than delay Brexit, British Prime Minister ...

Brains, not brawn, matter most in the next war — and we're not being smart about it

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BY DOV S. ZAKHEIM Source Link Throughout the millennia, war was essentially defined by muscular prowess on the battlefield. Advances...

Russia has been playing a canny game in the Middle East, but can it continue?

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Olga Oliker Source Link Recent events in Syria suggest that Russia isn’t just taking Washington’s place as the Middle East’s powe...

Assad Is Now Syria’s Best-Case Scenario

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Stephen M. Walt Source Link The ruthless Syrian dictator is guilty of countless war crimes—and regrettably represents his country...

The View From Olympus: A Comprehensive Settlement

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Source Link President Trump’s decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria is wise and, in fact, long overdue. There is no natural e...

U.S. Military Forces in FY 2020: The Struggle to Align Forces with Strategy

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Source Link Annually, CSIS Senior Adviser Mark Cancian publishes a series of papers on U.S. military forces--their composition, new in...

Strategic Deterrence Redux: Nuclear Weapons and European Security

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Leo Michel, Matti Pesu  Source Link Leo Michel and Matti Pesu write that the post-​Cold War era may have initially been characterized...

The P5 Must Reaffirm that Nuclear War Can’t Be Won and Mustn’t Be Fought

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By Ramesh Thakur Source Link There are three sets of reasons for a palpable rise in nuclear anxieties around the world: growing nu...

Taking Responsibility in a Dangerous World

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By Federica Mogherini Source Link Federica Mogherini contends that Europe is finally taking greater responsibility for European an...

National Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense Policy Snapshots: Updated Collection 2

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Source Link In this volume, Sean Cordey et al. examine the cybersecurity policies and architecture of Austria, Finland, France, German...

We aren’t in a cyber war – despite what Britain’s top general thinks

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Source Link David J. Lonsdale The UK is “ at war every day ”, the country’s chief of the defence staff, General Sir Nick Carter, r...

Quantum Computing Is Coming, Bit by Qubit

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By Dennis Overbye Source Link YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — A bolt from the maybe-future struck the technology community in late September...

Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Accused of Lying, Withstands a Washington ‘Beating’

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By Cecilia Kang, Mike Isaac and Nathaniel Popper Source Link WASHINGTON — Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, traveled to ...

The Emerging Risk of Virtual Societal Warfare

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by Michael J. Mazarr , Ryan Michael Bauer , Abigail Casey , Sarah Heintz , Luke J. Matthews Source Link What are the characteristics...

Contested Public Attributions of Cyber Incidents and the Role of Academia

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By Florian J. Egloff Source Link In a recent article in Contemporary Security Policy, Florian J. Egloff reflects on the contested n...

Eight Lieutenants Deliver a Tough Message

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By James R. Holmes Source Link In September, the Tailhook Association —the nonprofit association of naval aviation—convened its an...
25 October 2019

ISIS Terror Plans for Asia are Scary: Is India Ready to Foil Them?

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ROHAN GUNARATNA Source Link The threat of the Islamic State (IS) in Asia has reached a new high after the fall of the physical Calip...

The Logic of Staying in Afghanistan and the Logic of Getting Out

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By Carter Malkasian   Source Link Editor’s Note: Afghanistan is America’s longest war, and recent attempts to negotiate an end with t...