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What If Kim Jong Un Dies?
Improvements in U.S.-North Korean relations would still largely be up to Washington.
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Europe Was Just Getting Better at Moving Militaries
With Russia, China, and the coronavirus to worry about, reliably being able to move allied forces across the continent should remain a priority.
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How South Korea Used Technology to Flatten the Coronavirus Curve
A sense of normalcy is beginning to return to the country, thanks to extensive testing and a national system for tracking infected people.
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The Defense Department Needs a Real Technology Strategy
To succeed in a long-term competition with China, the Department needs a transparent process to set spending priorities — not conflicting guidance and a shifting range of interests.
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The US Army Is Racing to Build Makeshift Coronavirus Hospitals
The Corps of Engineers is converting dozens of American hotels and convention centers. Can it do it fast enough?
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Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen
And to make matters worse, we’re testing the wrong people.
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The Vermont National Guard’s Great Experiment
A few weeks ago, the state's Guardsmen got an impossible assignment. And then they pulled it off.
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We Need an Atlantic Charter for the Post-Coronavirus Era
This moment presents a once-in-a-century opportunity for American leaders to wrest a better future.
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A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s Coronavirus Numbers Are Flat
Few figures tell you anything useful about how COVID-19 has spread through the U.S. Here’s one that does.
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No Military Has Done More for Corona-Stricken Allies Than Germany’s
The Bundeswehr has been flying supplies to, and medevacing patients from, its European neighbors.
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Haircuts in a Time of Coronavirus?
There have been too many confusing messages during this crisis. Senior military and civilian leaders should be enforcing social distancing as much as discipline, and with one voice.
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Don't Be Fooled. Trump’s Cuts to WHO Aren’t About the Coronavirus
Republicans have been hating on international organizations for decades. This is just a convenient excuse to take another shot, and it harms American security.
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The Coronavirus Shows How US ‘Diplomacy’ Is Anything But
Absolutist, America-first approaches isolate us and make us less safe.
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The US Should Help Iran Get the Coronavirus Under Control
Easing sanctions will help confront a global pandemic and win back some goodwill from ordinary beleaguered Iranians.
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Ep. 66: The 1918 flu and the U.S. military
How the U.S. military was battered by, and slowly learned from, the influenza pandemic of 1918.
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Where is NATO? And Where is Trump?
The virus is destroying economies and paralyzing societies in ways Russian military planners could only dream.
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