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U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he holds a news conference after participating in the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium July 12, 2018. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause - RC11028C7550

Order from Chaos

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Robert Kagan

Sunday, July 15, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to hold a news conference after participating in the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium July 12, 2018. REUTERS/Yves Herman - RC1FC1274000

Order from Chaos

Should NATO even hold summits under Trump?

Derek Chollet and Amanda Sloat

Friday, July 13, 2018

A convoy of U.S. troops, a part of NATO's reinforcement of its eastern flank, who are on their way from Germany to Orzysz in northeast Poland, drive through Sulejowek towards a military base in Wesola, near Warsaw, Poland, March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel - RC18B77382F0

Order from Chaos

What Trump gets wrong on allied burden-sharing

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gestures as he gives a news conference ahead of a summit that will gather leaders of the 29 alliance members in Brussels, Belgium, July 10 2018. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause - RC14D4F06960

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An inconvenient truth: Addressing democratic backsliding within NATO

Jonathan Katz and Torrey Taussig

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Singapore and beyond: Options for denuclearizing North Korea

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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), smiles during a news conference after Japan's lower house election, at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan October 22, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon - RC16A76A3030

India

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

Dhruva Jaishankar

Monday, April 23, 2018

A Congressional aide stands by a chart showing the advancement of nuclear weapons programs in relation to the United States as U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis testifies to the House Armed Services Committee on "The National Defense Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC1BD2C9DF00

Arms Control

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

Frank A. Rose

April 2018

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Defense & Security

Defense Reforms: The Vajpayee years

Anit Mukherjee

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an exhibition on information technology as he visits the company ER-Telecom Holding in Perm, Russia September 8, 2017. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS

Cybersecurity

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Alina Polyakova and Spencer Phipps Boyer

March 2018

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NATO flag flutters next to the U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighter in Amari air base, Estonia, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins - RC165C115260

Up Front

Adapting the NATO alliance now and together

John R. Allen

Monday, July 9, 2018

Seated with members of his Cabinet, U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (L) at the White House in Washington. U.S., May 17, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC1BBC3BA300

Order from Chaos

Trump’s meaningless NATO spending debate

Jeremy Shapiro

Monday, July 9, 2018

LAN network cables plugged into a computer server in Singapore July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White - RC1BA1A425F0

Order from Chaos

Wars of none: AI, big data, and the future of insurgency

Chris Meserole

Monday, July 2, 2018

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Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency photographed Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft as it approached the International Space Station, April 22, 2017. Using the station's robotic Canadarm2, Cygnus was successfully captured by Pesquet and Commander Peggy Whitson at 6:05 a.m. EDT. The spacecrafts arrival brought more than 7,600 pounds of research and supplies to support Expedition 51 and 52. NASA/ESA/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC1C0F04C520

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Does the US need a Space Force?

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Order from Chaos

Lessons learned from the U.S. experience in Afghanistan

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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Somali government soldiers secure the scene of an attack on a restaurant by the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, October 1, 2016. REUTERS/Feisal Omar - S1BEUEMCYWAA

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Defense & Security

NATO’s global peace is unraveling and we can’t see it

Should NATO even hold summits under Trump?

What Trump gets wrong on allied burden-sharing

An inconvenient truth: Addressing democratic backsliding within NATO

Reports

Singapore and beyond: Options for denuclearizing North Korea

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

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

Defense Reforms: The Vajpayee years

The future of political warfare: Russia, the West, and the coming age of global digital competition

Blog Posts

Adapting the NATO alliance now and together

Trump’s meaningless NATO spending debate

Wars of none: AI, big data, and the future of insurgency

Events

No friends, no enemies? Trans-Atlantic relations after Trump’s Europe trip

Asia Transnational Threats Forum: Cybersecurity in Asia

The Marshall Plan’s 70th anniversary and the future of development cooperation

Related Books

Organized crime and illicit trade: How to respond to this strategic challenge in old and new domains

Constitutionalising the Security Union

Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States

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