Indo-Pacific

Rehman: Recasting India’s Special Forces

By Iskander Rehman

South Asia Center Nonresident Fellow Iskander Rehman writes for the Center for the Advanced Study of India on the need for India to increase and further develop its Special Operations Forces:

Metzl: Korean Reunification Is in China’s National Interest

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl writes for Caixin on the benefits of Korean reunification, especially for China:

Slavin on Iran, Nuclear Negotiations, and Prime Minister Abe’s US Visit

By Barbara Slavin

South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin hosts Voice of America’s Issues in the News, discussing topics ranging from the US-Iran stand-off in the Strait of Hormuz, the nuclear negotiations with Iran, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Washington, DC:

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Metzl on the US-Japan Alliance

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins CBS News to discuss the US-Japan alliance and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s speech to a joint session of Congress:

Manning on Deterrence and North Korea

By Robert Manning

Newsweek quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning on why deterrence still works against North Korea:

New Atlantic Council Brief Calls for a Reimagining of Pakistan’s Militia Policy

By Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center today launched a new issue brief entitled “Reimagining Pakistan’s Militia Policy.” Written by the Center’s US Pakistan Program Exchange Fellow Yelena Biberman, the brief argues that Pakistan’s unwillingness to crack down on all terrorist groups is more a product of cold calculation than ideological shortsightedness, and calls for powerful […]

Skip a generation of strike fighters? Maybe, Ray.

By James Hasik

Whatever happens with the F-18E or F-35C, the US Navy needs a carrier-based drone now. Earlier this year, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert said that he believed that the F/A-XX, the Navy’s planned eventual follow-on to the F-35C, would be “optionally manned“. On 15 April at the Sea-Air-Space conference, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus leaned further […]