It Is Long Past Time To Stop Expanding NATO
Expansion weakens the alliance rather than strengthening it. It’s time to stop NATO expansion.
Content Type: Opinion
Read featured commentary from CSIS experts on the latest developments in defense and national security.
Give Peace a Chance, Just Not This Way
For the millions of South Koreans, a peace declaration should be a great accomplishment and a relief. Unfortunately, it is not likely to be.
How to Predict the 2020 Presidential Winner
The winning candidate in 2020 will reveal himself or herself to us over the next 21 months through a basket of qualitative indicators focused on how effective each candidate is in individually appealing to likely voters in a fundamentally changed social environment.
How the Taliban Would Take Over Afghanistan
Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan will almost certainly undermine any possibility of a peace s
Policy and You: A Guide for Intelligence Analysts
If intelligence analysis is written but nobody reads it, does it exist? I offer a simple eight-step program for analysts to adopt to do their part in bridging the intelligence-policy divide.
No Good, Very Bad Ideas in National Security
Bad ideas. How much trouble do they cause in national security? How do they disrupt or hinder the protection and advancement of American interests? Listen to the War on the Rocks podcast featuring authors from the Defense360 “Bad Ideas in National Security” series.
Selling policy to the cord-cutting generation
The average American wants choice and personalization, not a bundled, take-it-or-leave-it offering. That has left the market wide open for new entrants willing to break with past business models and orthodoxies, from Netflix to Donald Trump.
Early Withdrawal Will Lead to More Terrorism
America has a new counterterrorism policy: retrenchment.
What the government shutdown means for our nation’s cybersecurity
The partial government shutdown is entering its nineteenth day. The full breadth of its ramifications is not well understood — particularly its impact on the cybersecurity of our nation’s critical infrastructure.
Bad Idea: Competing with China (without Knowing What Winning Looks Like)
If the U.S. is truly planning for a competition with China, it will need to plan for a long-term effort. The planning should be clear about who and what are opposed, what the U.S. expects from China to avoid conflict escalation, the minimal acceptable change it seeks from the Chinese government, and how far the U.S. is willing to go.