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Micah Zenko

Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) is Whitehead Senior Fellow at Chatham House and is the author of Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy.
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This picture from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released on Aug. 30 shows North Korea's intermediate-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 lifting off at an undisclosed location near Pyongyang. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Your Apocalyptic Fantasies Aren’t Helping the North Korea Crisis
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Exclusive - Chelsea Manning attends A Becoming Resemblance exhibition by Heather Dewey-Hagborg and transgender U.S. Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning investigating 'emerging technologies of genomic identity construction and our societal moment' opening, led by the installation 'Probably Chelsea'. The artwork comprises 30 3-D printed portraits of Manning created using DNA from cheek swabs and hair clippings mailed out of prison while she served seven years of a 35-year sentence for releasing classified and sensitive military records to WikiLeaks. Formerly known as Bradley Manning, Chelsea announced her gender transition the day after she was sentenced and began hormone replacement therapy shortly after. New York City, NY, USA, August 2, 2017. Photo by Dennis Van Tine/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)

Harvard Fellowships Have Always Been a Joke
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 11: U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks at a ceremony to commemorate the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the Pentagon September 11, 2017 in Washington, D.C. U.S. President Donald Trump was presiding over his first 9/11 commemoration on the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people when hijackers flew commercial airplanes into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images)

Does the Military Need a Micromanager?
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CHARLESTON, SC - FEBRUARY 22: Reality TV host and New York real estate mogul Donald Trump holds up a replica flintlock rifle awarded him by cadets during the Republican Society Patriot Dinner at the Citadel Military College on February 22, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Trump and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) were honored at the annual event. (Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images)

Donald Trump Is Dropping Bombs at Unprecedented Levels
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TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump salutes during the presidential inaugural parade on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. / AFP / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

Donald Trump Is Pushing America’s Special Forces Past the Breaking Point
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