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Yes, the UN Is Still Necessary
In his dramatic Dec. 4 speech decrying the international body, Secretary of State Pompeo seems to have confused cause and correlation.
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Four Steps to Fix the Security Clearance Backlog
Clearance delays are hurting the aerospace industry — and national security.
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Ep. 31: The true origins of ISIS and the future of counterterrorism with Hassan Hassan
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New Poll Data Should Be a Clarion Call to Those Who Believe in Global Engagement
The partisan gap is widening on several key foreign-policy priorities — as is the generation gap.
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Would a $700 Billion Budget Really Sink the Pentagon?
Resistance is already forming to a proposed decrease in 2020 spending. It’s important to understand just what that decrease means.
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Saudis, Yemen War Leading New Democrats Away From Obama Foreign Policy
They also want to rein in presidential war powers.
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Trump's Iran-Centric Syria Policy Takes Shape
Congress likely won’t take action to rein in the military powers it granted the president after the 9/11 attacks—powers that Trump uses with the broad aim of countering Iran.
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Who Will Prevent the Next India-Pakistan War?
China’s stakes and vulnerabilities in South Asia have grown. U.S. leaders should make use of this.
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US Foreign Policy Could Use Some Bush-Era Prudence
George H. W. Bush’s restraint was remarkable, and worth imitating.
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Germany Develops Offensive Cyber Capabilities Without A Coherent Strategy of What to Do With Them
Germany has traditionally prioritized defense over offense in cyberspace. That's now beginning to change.
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Assessing George H.W. Bush’s National-Security Legacy
The first president Bush made the world safer as the Soviet Union crumbled.
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Deployed Civilians Can’t Get Worker’s Comp — and That’s Bad News for a Military that Depends on Them
Thanks to a legal double standard, a civilian injured or sickened in a warzone has an impossible burden of proof.
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Ep. 30: Crisis in the Sea of Azov; Space Force!?; Nuclear anthropology and American folklore
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Policy
Warren’s Big Foreign Policy Speech? Simple and Irresponsible
Sen. Elizabeth Warren just gave a foreign policy speech that national security professionals who want U.S. global leadership should fear.
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The Trump Administration Wonders: Should We Seek a ‘Cold War’ With China?
As the White House spars with a rising China, it can look to the United States’ postwar dealings with the Soviet Union for guidance.
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New Documents Rewrite ISIS’ Origin Story
A secret biography suggests that Abu Ali al-Anbari defined the group’s radical approach more than any other person.
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The Pentagon Must Pay More than Lip Service to Innovative Companies
The military has poured billions of dollars into the Small Business Innovation Research program — yet resists putting its fruits to use.
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The Senate Takes a Step to Void America’s Blank Check to the Saudis
Washington can continue to work with Riyadh, but it need never again accept flagrant violations of human rights, international norms, or U.S. national interests.
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What Elizabeth Warren’s Speech Says About The Left’s Foreign-Policy Debate
The senator from Massachusetts will deliver a speech on Thursday that demonstrates her differences with other progressives—particularly with respect to China.
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