Ideas
Why Do Brexit and Trump Still Shock National Security Elites?
You have failed to listen, understand, communicate, and explain.
Policy
Trump Was For Invading Libya (and Iraq) Before He Was Against It
The presumptive Republican nominee tries to draw a contrast between himself and Hillary Clinton, but both of them supported U.S. involvement in both Libya and Iraq.
Policy
Hillary Clinton Tears Into Trump's 'Bizarre' National Security
The GOP presidential contender's foreign policy views are 'dangerously incoherent. They are not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies,' she said Thursday in California.
Policy
Is There a Hillary Doctrine?
A conversation with Mark Landler about the foreign-policy differences between Obama and his former secretary of state.
Policy
Trump May Be the US Military’s Least-Liked GOP Presidential Candidate In Over a Decade
Mitt Romney, John McCain, and George W. Bush all polled higher, according to Military Times surveys.
Ideas
Petty Officer Keating Died 2 Miles From the Syrian Front. How Far Are You?
The war came to him. What will it take for it to reach the rest of us?
Policy
Trump Makes His Own Head Spin Talking Foreign Policy
The Republican front-runner delivered his most scripted address yet laying out what he called his 'consistent' and 'unpredictable' national security ambitions.
Policy
NATO’s Not Obsolete, Says Joint Chiefs Chairman
In fact, the alliance soon could join the fight against ISIS, adds Defense Secretary Carter.
Threats
What Trump Got Right About Brussels
Trump’s diagnosis of the attack makes sense. But the proposals he and Ted Cruz offered in response do not.
Ideas
Not Just Trump: The Chilling Rise in Global Authoritarianism
Terrorism and drone war are feeding a larger sense of insecurity, driving some to xenophobia and jingoism.
Ideas
What It Would Take to Build Trump's Border Wall with Mexico
The presidential candidate is pledging the largest infrastructure project since the U.S. highway system. And it makes no sense at all.
Ideas
What the 2016 Presidential Candidates Get Wrong About the Future of War
They fail, they lack, they misunderstand, they pander, they don’t get, and they just don’t know national security – not according to our Future of War roster of experts.
Policy
Where the 2016 Candidates Stand on National Security
The Council on Foreign Relations drew on speeches, debates, and campaign websites, as well as open source media to compile where the candidates stand on Syria, Guantanamo, NSA surveillance and more.
Ideas
Bernie Sanders Looks Pretty Darn Establishment on Nuclear Weapons
Sanders is no outside-the-margin liberal on keeping up America’s nuclear arsenal.
Policy
Trump is Wrong, ISIS Doesn't Want Rome
Trump's claim that Rome is 'ISIS’s ultimate trophy' deserves correction, just in case he thinks it’s true.
Policy
There's a Reason Ted Cruz Won't Say How Much His Pentagon Plans Will Cost
More soldiers, ships, subs, planes, drone pilots—in short, the fiscal conservative wants to spend en enormous amount of money.
Policy
Donald Trump's Big Lie on the Iraq War
Trump’s opposition to the invasion is an important part of his claim to sound judgment. And he is making it up. I would know.
Policy
Rubio Proves Obama's Point About Islam and Intolerance in the US
Sen. Marco Rubio accused the president of 'pitting people against each other' in Obama's visit to a mosque this week.
Ideas
Reagan's '76 Playbook Is the Ticket for Cruz and Trump
The rise of conservative outsiders like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump is not unprecedented.
Policy
Rand Paul the Dove Never Stood a Chance Among the Hawks
I planned to write a different story about the libertarian anti-neocon. Instead, I found this.
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