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After two years in office, President's Obama's vision for missile defense is clear. It is guided by two imperatives. First, Obama believes in "just-enough" and "just-in-time" missile defense. Second, the president does not want any missile defense programs that will interfere with his arms control...
Most of the coverage has focused on what happens in U.S. foreign policy after the demise of Osama bin Laden. How are other major powers of the world affected, however? Writing in Foreign Policy, John Lee notes why Beijing may be concerned about what lies...
The government and the media, will squeeze everything it can from the leftover detritus of Osama bin Laden. It will twist and twirl it out like the most distasteful piece of nose toffee simply for sales value and because it cements the directive that we're...
Who will take over for Osama bin Laden as the head of Al-Qaeda? And will he be able to hold together the organization? My colleague John Schindler gives his evaluations (in the New York Daily News): Ayman al-Zawahiri, the chief ideologist of the Salafi jihad...
Months before his death, Osama bin Laden -- with the help of corporate America's national security infrastructure, screwed up my driver's license. If you live outside California you probably haven't heard this tale of fail. It's unfolded in slow motion over months, resulting in massive...
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The death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of U.S. forces raises the possibility that his followers will try to strike back at the United States. Since attacks such as 9/11 take years to plan, some speculate that they may attempt to launch a...
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What impact will the combination of the death of Osama bin Laden and the nomination of Leon Panetta with a mandate to cut defense budgets have on U.S. national security policy? This is a question I tackled today at World Politics Review. If we were...
The new millennium is bringing an epochal shift in the global strategic situation that is fundamentally altering the challenges facing the nation. Although there is broad awareness of many elements of this shift, the overall mismatch between these challenges and national capabilities is almost totally...
Some of the questions to ponder now that Osama bin Laden has been located and killed: 1) Does Al-Qaeda disintegrate, having lost its effective founder and guide? Or does Al-Qaeda now devolve into smaller, nationally-based franchises (in Yemen, North Africa, Palestine)--with no central command or...
Outgoing Defense Secretary Gates has counseled his successors to never again contemplate getting involved in a major land war on the Asian landmass. The president promises that there will be no "boots on the ground" in Libya. But does this mean that the alternate is...
An asteroid strike could devastate the nation. But the proverbial one in a million chance is actually pretty close to the mark. We know enough of previous strikes to estimate a major impact every 20 million years or so. And it has been quite a...
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In one picture a simple proof that all news stories having to do with Chinese military spending and its alleged menace are laughable. In the last decade, our graph shows the ballooning trade deficit with China, mirroring national off-shoring of labor and the shipping out...
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On New Year's Day, Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. Now, he is a "guest of the state" in a military hospital, and his sons are in jail. Mubarak's fate complicates efforts to encourage other authoritarian leaders to step down and peacefully relinquish power....
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Debate over defense spending has become one of Washington's hottest topics. President Obama added fuel to the fire of speculation when he proposed an additional $400 billion in Pentagon spending cuts to help rein in federal spending. In a recent research paper from The Heritage...
Authors
- Richard Andres
- Cheryl Benard
- Linda Bishai
- Tim Brown
- James Jay Carafano
- Christopher Chivvis
- Sam Cohen
- James L. Cook
- Walton Cook
- Ed Corcoran
- Ralph Cossa
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Charles Dunlap
- Amitai Etzioni
- Gareth Evans
- Nikolas K. Gvosdev
- Brian Michael Jenkins
- David Johnson
- Terrence Kelly
- Michael Krepon
- Stephen Larrabee
- Mackenzie Eaglen
- Arthur G. Martirosyan
- Ralph Masi
- Ali Nader
- Aram Nerguizian
- Ori Nir
- Jim Phillips
- Derek Reveron
- RSIS
- Paul Saunders
- David Schenker
- Ghassan Schbley
- Mark Schneider
- Daniel Serwer
- George Smith
- Scott Snyder
- Jon Soltz
- Kirk H. Sowell
- Alexander Thier
- Rosemary Freitas Williams
- Elizabeth Zolotukhina
