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Filling the Void: Russia Prepares for Post-NATO Afghanistan
The departure of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan has created a security breach Russia is eager to exploit (www.presstv.ir) On July 29, hundreds of troops from the Collective Security Treaty...
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Ukraine and the Future of NATO: Redefining Old Notions of Warfare and Conflict
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Vexed Neighbors: India and China’s Evolving Relationship
Kishi Ganku, tiger and dragon fusuma (Wikimedia Commons) Two recent developments constitute a bellwether in the tentatively thawing but still wary Sino-Indian relations. First, notwithstanding the...
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Cybersecurity and the ANZUS Treaty: The Issue of U.S.-Australian Retaliation
Dignitaries from the United States and Australia, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, as well as Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and...
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Rough Seas Ahead: Tight Budgets, Shortsighted Politics, and the Navy’s...
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What the Media Missed: Chuck Hagel’s Lasting Legacy
Hagel addresses an audience after being sworn in as 24th U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon Auditorium on March 14, 2013. (U.S. Department of Defense photo By Glenn Fawcett, Flickr Commons) On...
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Crisis in Ukraine: When Proxies are Primary
International crises signify a failure of policy, and each one has both proximate causes—immediate factors and triggers—as well as a more longstanding historical context of foment and escalation. It...
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Brother, Can You Pare a DIME? Towards a New Typology of National Power
(User Darin House, Flickr Commons) The notion that there are four elements of national power—diplomatic, information, military, and economic—is hegemonic in American military thought. The DIME...
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The Persian Elephant in the Room: Revitalizing U.S.-Iran Relations After the...
Inspectors from the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency examine suspicious equipment in Iraq destroyed during the 1991 Gulf War (IAEA Action Team, (Flickr Commons) “I found myself...
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If at First You Do Not Succeed
(Julien Harneis, Flickr Commons) In May 2011, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) invited Morocco and Jordan, the two Gulf monarchies that are not formal members of the club, to apply for membership,...
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