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Counter-Terrorism and Emergency Management: Keeping a Proper Balance

May 2013, Jibum Chung

What Will Keep a U.S. Defense Secretary Up At Night Through the Next Decade?

May 6, 2013

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Bosnia Lends Clue To Syria Strategy

May 3, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Healing the Wounded Giant

Maintaining Military Preeminence while Cutting the Defense Budget

2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Taiwan’s Response to an Evolving Security Environment

April 29, 2013

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Pentagon Paying China — Yes, China — To Carry Data

April 29, 2013, Noah Shachtman

How U.S. Cities Can Protect Themselves Against Bombing Attacks

April 17, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

The Stakes for America in the Race to Replace Karzai

April 16, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Michèle Flournoy

At a Dollar a Shot, Lasers Bring Down Missiles and Costs

April 14, 2013, Peter W. Singer

U.S.-Russia Arms Control: Prospects and Challenges

March 25, 2013, Steven Pifer

Hamid Karzai, Confused by the U.S.

March 28, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Stephen Biddle

Intelligence and Public Perceptions of It

March 27, 2013, Paul R. Pillar

Kandahar and Hope

March 21, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Michèle Flournoy

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March 20, 2013, Ian S. Livingston and Michael O’Hanlon

Security Challenges During a Time of Transition

March 13, 2013

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Brookings Launches the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence (21CSI)

March 12, 2013

Focused Deterrence, Selective Targeting, Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime: Concepts and Practicalities

February 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Weighing U.S. Intervention: Syria v. Congo

February 28, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

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February 28, 2013, Ian S. Livingston and Michael O’Hanlon

The airspace [for the FAA's six drone test sites], under the current schedule, opens up [in] 2015...and so we will see one of the most fundamental shifts in who and how you can use the airspace above us.

February 26, 2013, Peter W. Singer, National Public Radio

Bound to Fail: Why Cyber Security Risk Cannot Be "Managed" Away

February 2013, Ralph Langner and Perry Pederson

15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget—Part I: Budgeting for a Modern Military

February 22, 2013

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Making Defense Affordable

February 22, 2013, Cindy Williams

National Defense in a Time of Change

February 22, 2013, Adm. Gary Roughead (USN Ret.) and Kori Schake

The Army of the Future: A Discussion with General Raymond T. Odierno, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army

February 15, 2013

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