Policy
Mike Pence Embraces Foreign Policy That GOP Voters Left Behind
By sidestepping Trump’s messages on foreign policy and trade in Tuesday’s debate, the vice-presidential nominee ignored the choices GOP voters made in their primaries.
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In Colombia's Hope, Afghanistan's Future
Donors meeting in Brussels should remember Colombia in the 1990s looked a lot like Afghanistan today.
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Trump vs. the Generals
As president, he says he would create a Syrian safe zone and swiftly draft a plan to defeat ISIS 'fast.' Here are the flag officers who say: not so fast.
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EXCLUSIVE: ISIS ‘Will Fight to the Death’ for Mosul, Says Top Peshmerga General
The Kurds’ chief of staff, who dreams of Kurdish independence, hopes the American military stays long after Mosul.
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The Intelligence Picture Over Iraq and Syria Has Gotten Much Cloudier
The leader of Air Combat Command says new players on the battlefield are complicating the air fight against ISIS.
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McCain to White House: If You Won’t Establish a Cyber Defense Policy, Congress Will
‘Ignoring the issue, as the White House has done, is not an option,’ said the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman on Tuesday.
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Hillary Clinton Fails to Offer a Foreign-Policy Vision
At a candidate’s forum on Wednesday night, the Democratic nominee served up loads of specifics—but no positive story to weave them together.
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Want to Lead? Talk to the Media
American voters deserve to be informed by their candidates and generals.
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Don’t Dismantle VA Reform
The Commission on Care’s recommendations to fix veterans’ health care may not be perfect, but they’re a good start.
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When Campaigns Smear Generals and Intelligence Officers
I worked with Gen. Allen and CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell. They deserve better than personal attacks and campaign lies.
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Trump is Wrong About the Intelligence Community
Presidential candidates should refrain from uninformed and baseless claims that only undermine intelligence professionals.
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Obama's Last Chance to Terminate US Nuclear Policy (Thanks to Trump)
Here are four ways Obama can make humanity safer from nuclear weapons before anyone else gets the launch codes.
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NATO, Stop Expanding Eastward
The alliance’s growth is doing more harm than good, and other principles of a proposed Détente 2.0.
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Gold Star Families Deserve Better Than One News Cycle
Hashtag sympathy must be matched by real-world caring.
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How Trump Turned the US Foreign-Policy Consensus Upside-Down
The Republican nominee doesn’t just disagree with Democrats—his ideas represent a break with a long list of policies that have won bipartisan support for decades.
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WATCH: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on National Security
Defense One, with the Council on Foreign Relations, is pleased to offer an explainer of the GOP and Democratic candidates’ positions on national defense, Russia, China, and ISIS.
Science & Tech
Russia Wanted to be Caught, Says Company Waging War on the DNC Hackers
Pointing a finger at Russia is easy. Punishing them is hard. That’s why they hacked the DNC, according to the company that first named one of the key suspects.
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Imagine a Russian Invasion of the Baltics, If Trump Were President
A former NATO general imagines a 'frightening scenario.’
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Here's How Clinton and Trump Stack Up on National Security, Russia, ISIS and More
With foreign policy now central to the 2016 election, the Council on Foreign Relations offers this nonpartisan guide to the candidates’ positions on a range of issues.
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