Since World War II, America’s network of European and Asian alliances has underwritten security and prosperity around the globe. While these alliances have been a source of strategic and political…
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The Challenges After Gates
April 11, 2011 • By Andrew F. Krepinevich • Analysis
Spread of Weapons, Cyber Threats, Tight Budgets Await One of Washington’s favorite parlor games involves guessing which of the president’s key advisers may be departing and the identities of those…
No-Fly Zone, No Problem
March 10, 2011 • By Jim Thomas and Zack Cooper • Analysis
How to do it without putting a single coalition plane directly over Libyan territory. The U.S. and its allies successfully implemented no-fly zones against Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein in…
The Dangers of a Nuclear Iran
December 27, 2010 • By Eric Edelman, Andrew F. Krepinevich, and Evan B. Montgomery • Analysis
What to do about Iran’s nuclear program is one of the most vexing foreign policy challenges confronting the Obama administration. This debate is increasingly characterized both by growing pessimism about…
Security Can’t Stop With DoD
December 20, 2010 • By Eric Edelman • Analysis
The newly released Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) is a welcome initiative by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to provide some strategic planning horizons for U.S. diplomats. That document…