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Order from Chaos

Military worship hurts US democracy

Mara Karlin and Alice Hunt Friend

Monday, September 24, 2018

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Order from Chaos

The United States can stop a looming catastrophe for 3 million Syrians

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Steven Heydemann

Thursday, September 20, 2018

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Fixing fragility in the Sahel: A conversation with Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta

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Order from Chaos

What we can learn from—and add to—the new Air Force vision

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, September 17, 2018

Reports

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Briar Purty tests Drone Killer Counter-UAS Technology during Urban Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2018 (ANTX-18) at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, March 21, 2018. Picture taken March 21, 2018. U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Rhita Daniel/Handout via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC130534DFC0

Defense & Security

Forecasting change in military technology, 2020-2040

Michael E. O’Hanlon

September 2018

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Defense & Security

A retrospective on the so-called Revolution in Military Affairs, 2000-2020

Michael E. O’Hanlon

September 2018

North Korea

Singapore and beyond: Options for denuclearizing North Korea

Robert Einhorn

June 2018

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India

A Confluence of Two Strategies: The Japan-India Security Partnership in the Indo-Pacific

Dhruva Jaishankar

Monday, April 23, 2018

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Arms Control

Is the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review as bad as the critics claim it is?

Frank A. Rose

April 2018

Blog Posts

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TechTank

Who should answer the ethical questions surrounding artificial intelligence?

Jack Karsten

Monday, September 17, 2018

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Order from Chaos

How to prevent a massacre and the creation of ISIS 2.0 in Syria’s Idlib province

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Steven Heydemann

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

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Order from Chaos

17 years after 9/11, what it means to have Generation Z military

Brendan R. Stickles

Monday, September 10, 2018

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