Threats
Expect Less Than Advertised As Turkey Enters ISIS Fight
White House officials called Turkey's new role in the fight against ISIS 'game-changing.' In reality, Ankara's escalation is likely to achieve much less than expected.
Ideas
Obama's Unnecessary and Risky Foreign Policy Gamble
The President's supporters say he's taking America 'out of the rut of history' with Iran, but he's actually making a generational mistake.
Ideas
Obama Must Address Kenya’s Alarmingly Weak Counterterrorism Plan
Kenya is under immediate terrorism threat, yet its leaders block civil organizations, target Muslims and extort bribes.
Policy
How Congress Can Improve the Iran Nuclear Deal
Blocking the agreement poses risks, but legislators can use their role to extract commitments that address key concerns.
Ideas
Tajikistan’s Security Chief Has Gone Over to ISIS. Now What?
Washington must convince the corrupt and repressive Tajik government to change its ways, lest extremists gain a Central Asian foothold.
Ideas
A Good Iran Deal
To understand just how important the Iran agreement is, let’s compare life with the deal to life without it.
Ideas
Three Women Advance, Inspire at US Army’s Ranger School
As the trio work their way through the Mountain phase, others across the Army watch, wait, and hope for their shot at the elite special operators course.
Ideas
FBI Director Comey Is Wrong: Strong Encryption Makes Us All Safer
Forcing companies to keep cyber back doors for law enforcement gives adversaries a way in, too.
Ideas
Here’s the Defining National Security Question of Our Time
We asked 20 experts whether great powers might ever go to war again.
Ideas
Beyond the Military: Why the US Needs More National Service Options
Building a next generation of American foreign policy and national security leaders requires new options for national service.
Ideas
UK Steps Up Defense Posture, Spending Ahead of Review
British armed forces are stepping up their response, and future presence, against threats from Russia to terrorism.
Ideas
Michael Oren Is Wrong — There Has Always Been Daylight Between the US and Israel
Some Israelis think the relationship will snap back in January 2017, but it'll be more likely to continue as it always has.
Ideas
TPP’s Failure Wouldn’t Doom Washington’s Asia Strategy
A ‘no’ vote in Congress would be a setback, but there are other ways to counter China.
Ideas
What a Yemeni Missile Teaches Us About the Iran Deal
The U.S. and its regional partners are going to have to work a lot harder because missiles are missing from the P5+1 nuclear negotiations.
Ideas
After Ukraine, NATO's Chance for a New Normal
Can Defense Secretary Ash Carter and European leaders turn NATO's historic Ukraine response into a new future for the alliance?
Ideas
Iran’s Nuclear Past Should Not Scuttle A Deal for Its Future
It’s more important to know Tehran will have no nuclear weapons for the next 20 years than to obsess over what it did 20 years ago.
Ideas
The Pentagon's War Budget Won't Be Easy To Roll Back
Congress has too many reasons to keep overseas contingency operations funding as it is.
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