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		<title>Asia&#8217;s Precarious Balance of Power</title>
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Last week at Foreign Policy’s “Shadow Government” blog, AEI’s Dan Blumenthal illustrated just how dramatically the United States’ ability to project power in Asia has waned in the last 15 years:
Today the balance of power in Asia is shifting. Since the end of World War II, Washington has kept the peace in Asia through its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defensestudies.org/?p=3379</link>
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		<title>Turn the Page, But Don&#8217;t Close the Book</title>
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In an article at AOLNews.com today, CDS director Tom Donnelly offers his thoughts on last night’s Oval Office address:
President Barack Obama&#8217;s elegy for Operation Iraqi Freedom Tuesday night quoted a staff sergeant from the 2nd Infantry Division&#8217;s 4th Stryker Brigade, the last U.S. Army &#8220;combat&#8221; unit to cross into Kuwait: &#8220;I know that to my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defensestudies.org/?p=3366</link>
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		<title>Iraq: The Way Ahead</title>
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Yesterday, I moderated a discussion with my AEI colleagues Tom Donnelly, Fred Kagan, and Michael Rubin, held in anticipation of today’s formal conclusion of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq.  A central point to emerge from the briefing was that the United States has entered a new, but no less challenging, period in its relationship [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defensestudies.org/?p=3359</link>
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		<title>An Opportunity Missed</title>
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New military technologies often raise new moral, ethical, political, and legal dilemmas. The development of nuclear weapons, for example, led to concerns about whether their use would violate the laws of war and the “just war” principle of proportionality.  Some scholars today still debate the morality of the atomic bombing of Japan.  Ever since then, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defensestudies.org/?p=3351</link>
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		<title>Time for More ROTC Programs?</title>
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In an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, AEI’s Gary Schmitt and Cheryl Miller pointed out that members of America’s military today hail from an increasingly slim segment of society:
 
The nearly three million members of the U.S. Armed Forces have been at war for nearly a decade. While combat troops are being withdrawn from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defensestudies.org/?p=3347</link>
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		<title>Further Thoughts on DOD&#8217;s China Report</title>
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Last week, I offered some first impressions on this year’s DOD China military power report. I expanded on those yesterday over at the National Review Online, where I discussed both what the report tells us about Congress and the Obama administration and what it doesn’t tell us about China’s military modernization. I argue that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defensestudies.org/?p=3341</link>
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		<title>Trading Global Leadership for Entitlements</title>
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Guernica is featuring a must-read excerpt from Michael Mandelbaum’s fascinating—and frightening—new book, The Frugal Superpower. In it, the author explains how the United States’ massive debt and skyrocketing entitlement costs stand to constrain and transform American foreign policy as we have known it for the last sixty years:
Over the preceding half century the American government’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defensestudies.org/?p=3335</link>
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		<title>A Summer of Discontent for China and the U.S.</title>
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It’s been a summer of discontent for the United States and China. With recent disputes over the South China Sea and over U.S.-ROK exercises around the Korean peninsula, with China aggressively exercising its military, and with the recent publication of the annual DOD report on Chinese military power, the relationship has seen better days. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defensestudies.org/?p=3331</link>
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		<title>Planning for the Long Haul in Afghanistan</title>
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In yesterday’s Washington Post, Walter Pincus reported on the Army’s plans to upgrade airbases and build a series of new special operations facilities across Afghanistan. The story suggests that the construction efforts, due to be completed late next year, represent an investment in the United States’ long-term posture in Afghanistan, and provide further indication that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defensestudies.org/?p=3320</link>
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