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The Real Syria Problem 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Gary Hart Some truths about the use of force: one, it is easier to start than to finish; two, public support for military operations wanes quickly; three, force is not a policy; fourth, military oper...
Syria Intervention: Anticipating Russia's Response 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Nikolas K. Gvosdev The latest crisis about whether or not chemical weapons were deployed by the Syrian government is following a well-established script. The United States has concluded that the perp...
China: Mao or Markets? 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Robert A. Manning Why is Chinese president Xi Jinping embracing his inner Mao at a moment when China’s new leaders are on the verge of launching a new wave of reforms to retool China’s economy based ...
Arab Spring or Islamic Spring? 26 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Ross Harrison Is the Arab Spring still an appropriate moniker for describing the series of uprisings that started with the overthrow of Tunisian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and then spread east...
Poland and America Need a Fresh Start 26 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
James W. Carden One of the more troubling tendencies of the Obama administration's foreign policy has been its inability to realize that policy choices made with regard to one part of the world have ...
Rowhani the Decision Shaper 26 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Mohammad Ali Shabani Mahsa Rouhi The election of Hassan Rowhani has brought a new sense of optimism to the international community. The Iranians are suddenly making the right sounds. And even Congre...
India's Nuclear Blunder 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Zachary Keck It’s fashionable in Western security circles to proclaim that nuclear weapons never make a state more secure. This is hogwash. Nuclear weapons, more so than any other single factor, are ...
Washington’s Strange Strategy-Review Ritual 25 Aug 2013 | 12:29 pm
Robert Golan-Vilella Here we go again. The season of planning documents in foreign and defense policy is arriving. In 2010, the Obama administration released its first National Security Strategy (NSS...
The Coming Nuclear War with...the Soviet Union? 25 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Tom Nichols The Syrian regime has now almost certainly attacked its own people with chemical weapons. Tens upon tens of thousands have died over the two years of the Syrian civil war, easily making i...
Debating a Strategy for World War III 24 Aug 2013 | 12:02 pm
Harry J. Kazianis Over the last several weeks TNI has hosted a spirited debate regarding American military strategy when it comes to a possible conflict with the People’s Republic of China. As a stra...
