Indo-Pacific

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 […]

Reimagining Pakistan’s militia policy

By Yelena Biberman

If ever a turning point seemed inevitable in Pakistan’s militia policy, it was in the aftermath of the Peshawar school massacre in December 2014. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) killed 152 people, 133 of them children, in the bloodiest terrorist attack in Pakistan’s history. The carnage sparked an unprecedented national dialogue about the costs and contradictions of […]

Manning: Abe’s US Visit Tests Willingness to Face History

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning writes for the Global Times on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the United States: