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FILE PHOTO: Marine reinforcements fly towards an area somewhere near Kandahar, Afghanistan, December 10, 2001. Earnie Grafton, The San Diego Union-Tribune/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Order from Chaos

Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan: Biden’s unforced error puts America at risk

Madiha Afzal and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Thursday, April 15, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his plan to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, at the White House, Washington, U.S., April 14, 2021. Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

The US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan is the right one

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Handout file photo dated April 13, 2012 of sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) stand by as the ship goes alongside the Indian navy fleet oiler INS Shakti (A57) during a refueling at sea exercise. Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are deployed participating in the Malabar Exercise with ships and aircraft from the Indian navy. Australia will join India, the United States and Japan in next month's Malabar naval exercises in the Indian Ocean, in a move that is expected to strengthen the military relationship between the four democracies amid increased tensions with China. Conducted annually since 1992, the maneuvers have grown in size and complexity in recent years to address what the US Navy has previously described as a "variety of shared threats to maritime security in the Indo-Asia Pacific." U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans via ABACAPRESS.COM

Asia & the Pacific

How the Quad can match the hype

Tanvi Madan and Dhruva Jaishankar

Thursday, April 15, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing, China January 21, 2021. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo/File Photo

Order from Chaos

The US has very little to gain by overdemonizing China

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Reports

Naval officers stand on a U.S navy vessel as it docks in the eastern city of Port Sudan, Sudan March 1, 2021. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddiq

Report

Implications of the Tri-Service Maritime Strategy for America’s naval forces

Michael Sinclair, Rodrick H. McHaty, and Blake Herzinger

March 2021

North Korea

North Korea’s economic crisis: Last chance for denuclearization?

Evans J.R. Revere

Friday, February 26, 2021

Flags are placed at the G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, May 26, 2017. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Multilateral Development Organizations

Advancing multilateralism in a populist age

Thomas Wright

February 2021

A FireEye information analyst works in front of a screen showing a near real-time map tracking cyber threats at the FireEye office in Milpitas, California, December 29, 2014. FireEye is the security firm hired by Sony to investigate last month's cyberattack against Sony Pictures. Picture taken December 29. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CRIME LAW)

Defense & Security

The other 4+1: Biological, nuclear, climatic, digital, and internal dangers

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, January 25, 2021

Defense & Security

Overview: Blueprints for international security for the 2020s

Suzanne Maloney and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, January 25, 2021

Blog Posts

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, not pictured, participate beside staff and cabinet members in a virtual meeting with Asia-Pacific nation leaders at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 12, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Order from Chaos

The Quad (finally) delivers: Can it be sustained?

Susan A. Thornton

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's deputy leader and negotiator, and other delegation members attend the Afghan peace conference in Moscow, Russia March 18, 2021. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

How the United States can select and work with nonstate armed actors as stabilization partners

Patrick W. Quirk and Prakhar Sharma

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a joint news conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (not pictured) at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan November 19, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

Order from Chaos

Under Biden, Pakistan and the US face a dilemma about the breadth of their relationship

Madiha Afzal

Monday, April 12, 2021

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Events

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How the Army is adapting to great power competition

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Remembering the first ‘space war’: A discussion with Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EDT

The needs of women veterans

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The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms

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The Centaur’s Dilemma

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Experts

Tanvi Madan

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Multimedia

The inaugural Quad leaders meeting with the President of the United States Joe Biden, the Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihide Suga, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison during a virtual meeting in Sydney, Saturday, March 13, 2021. (AAP Image/Pool/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Asia & the Pacific

International Women’s Day special: Women in defense and foreign policy

Tanvi Madan, Olivia Nelson, Danielle Cave, Lisa Sharland, Jenna Allen, Anastasia Kapetas, and Khwezi Nkwanyana

Policy, Guns & Money

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Photo: Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

Podcast Episode

What’s the significance of Biden’s first military strikes in Syria?

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Adrianna Pita

Friday, February 26, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump listens to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper address the daily White House coronavirus response briefing with members of the administration's coronavirus task force at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC2GMF9QPP29/File Photo

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Why did Trump fire Secretary of Defense Esper?

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Adrianna Pita

Monday, November 9, 2020

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Defense & Security

Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan: Biden’s unforced error puts America at risk

The US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan is the right one

How the Quad can match the hype

The US has very little to gain by overdemonizing China

Reports

Implications of the Tri-Service Maritime Strategy for America’s naval forces

North Korea’s economic crisis: Last chance for denuclearization?

Advancing multilateralism in a populist age

The other 4+1: Biological, nuclear, climatic, digital, and internal dangers

Overview: Blueprints for international security for the 2020s

Blog Posts

The Quad (finally) delivers: Can it be sustained?

How the United States can select and work with nonstate armed actors as stabilization partners

Under Biden, Pakistan and the US face a dilemma about the breadth of their relationship

Events

How the Army is adapting to great power competition

Remembering the first ‘space war’: A discussion with Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman

The needs of women veterans

Related Books

War Time

The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms

The Centaur’s Dilemma

Experts

Tanvi Madan

Director - The India Project

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy

Robert Einhorn

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative

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