Hope in an Age of Nuclear Weapons: The Realist Case for Elimination Book Discussion
This event was rescheduled due to inclement weather. It is now taking place on Thursday, May 2. Event Description: Wilson will challenge Cold War concepts that still inform policy, and present new and compelling reasons why we should take the question of elimination seriously. In his first public discussion of his forthcoming book, Hope […]
US Coercive Diplomacy in Iran and Iraq: A Conversation with Ken Pollack
Featuring: Kenneth M. Pollack, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Barry Blechman, Co-founder and Distinguished Fellow at The Stimson Center
Amazon in Crystal City: Threat and Opportunity for the Defense Department
Amazon’s recent announcement that it has chosen two locations for its second headquarters has been greeted with a general deflation of enthusiasm mixed with pique. Despite the Cinderella dreams of the many people who wanted the behemoth to choose a city beyond the Acela corridor, it looks like Amazon will use its magic wand to […]
Mattis is poisoning the well on women in combat
Secretary of Defense James Mattis is against women in combat. He made this clear in his 2017 confirmation hearings, in comments given on Tuesday at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), whose student body is 89 percent male, and in his subsequent doubling-down in the face of criticism on Wednesday. By doing so, he is actively undermining policies he is charged with implementing […]
NATO in the Changing World Order: Strategic Lessons from Military Operations
Increasingly, US and European leaders are questioning whether international organizations such as NATO are worth the costs. In this talk, Heidi Hardt, assistant professor of political science at the Univeristy of California, Irvine, argues that answering this question requires a consideration of how well the organizations perform. Hardt will discuss findings from her new book NATO’s Lessons in […]
NATO Isn’t Cheap—and It’s Still Worth the Price
President Trump’s confounding behavior during the recent meeting with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members and at this week’s Helsinki summit with Russia has produced no shortage of dismay among those who believe that the defense of the European continent is an important national security interest of the United States. Although Trump’s larger geopolitical agenda […]
Concession…or Common Sense? Trading Drills for Dialogue
Much has been made of President Trump’s post-summit announcement that he was cancelling joint war games with South Korea. In light of his recent campaign of “maximum pressure” and last summer’s threats of “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” such a conciliatory move caught many off guard, including the South Koreans and perhaps […]
Gordon Adams Op-Ed on Need for US Military Withdrawal from Syria
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