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Contested Primacy in the Western Pacific: China’s Rise and the Future of U.S. Power Projection
No single issue is likely to have a more profound impact on the future of international relations than the evolving relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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CongressWatch Breaks Down Politics of Defense Budget Outlook
DoD Program Cuts: Todd Harrison discusses Congress, defense spending and politics.
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How Congress Is Hollowing Out the Military
Congress is trying to have it both ways by cutting defense spending and expecting the Defense Department to continue with business as usual. But the savings will have to come from somewhere.
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Indo-Pacific Geopolitics
In this interview – part of European Geostrategy’s now long-running interview series – James Rogers discusses Indo-Pacific geopolitics; Australia’s geostrategic location in relation to future American and British overseas basing requirements; Australian security policy in the Indo-Pacific; Taiwan’s role in East Asia; and European interests in the Indo-Pacific, with Iskander Rehman, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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U.S. Eyes on Japan’s Security 2 / Japan, U.S. Must Deter ‘Creeping Aggression’ at Sea
Over the past 15 years or so, the People’s Liberation Army has undertaken a significant military modernization program. A large portion of this modernization has centered around a counter-intervention strategy—that is, developing capabilities and forces that have the wherewithal to prevent or to make it very costly or difficult for an outside power to intervene in the Western Pacific area, and at the same time make it very difficult for such a power to operate at all in that same area over time.
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What Would Jimmy Carter Do?
Russia’s invasion of Crimea has led many pundits to compare President Barack Obama’s foreign policies with those of President Jimmy Carter. The similarities are difficult to ignore, up to a point.