List of United States articles
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U.S. President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Nov. 9 in Beijing, China. (Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images) Trump Isn’t Sure If Democracy Is Better Than Autocracy
America's president is voluntarily abdicating one of the country's biggest strategic advantages.
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The United States Seventh Fleet logo. (Wikimedia Commons) Does Conformism Among Military Officers Create Conditions That Lead to Corruption?
Conformity enables corruption
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The interior of the Louvre Abu Dhabi on Nov. 7. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images) The Louvre Isn’t Just a Museum. It’s a Power Tool.
Emmanuel Macron went to the Middle East this week to unveil the Louvre Abu Dhabi — and affirm France as a global power.
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Dan Berschinski kisses his girlfriend Rebecca Taber in Dover, Delaware on Sep. 13, 2011. (Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post) Veterans’ Day Special: An Afghan War Casualty Looks Back and Wonders Why
I am neither old and wise, nor am I an impressively decorated combat veteran.
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Voters cast their ballots at voting booths at PS198M The Straus School on Nov. 8, 2016 in New York City, New York. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images) Happy Anniversary to America’s Most Corrupted Election
It’s never too late to make sure future votes are secure from foreign interference. Here’s how.
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Flowers mark the location where Sayfullo Saipov crashed into cyclists along a Manhattan bike path on Oct. 31 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The Next Phase in the War on Terror Is Here
But talk of Guantánamo, “extreme vetting,” and ending the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is just a distraction from the real threat.
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A depiction of the Battle of Bloody Brook in King Philip's War. (Wikimedia Commons) Lepore’s assertion on war
The names of war
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Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific. Copyright © 2017 by Michael Fabey. Book excerpt: What you’ll hear about the future aboard a Chinese navy ship
Officers throughout the Chinese navy believe that China will soon end the United States’ decades-long naval hegemony in the Western Pacific.
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Girl Scout cookies (Masayuki Kawagishi/Flickr) Girls Scouts & Cybersecurity
I read recently in a new publication, ‘Rand Review,’ that the Girl Scouts now have a cybersecurity badge.
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A parable. (Wikimedia Commons) My Modest Proposal For a New Professional U.S. Military Magazine
I’d call my new military magazine PIVOT: The Journal of Conventional Military Wisdom.
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An IRGC Raad air defense system on display in Tehran on Sept. 21, 2012. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images) Did Iran Sanctions Make the Revolutionary Guard Stronger?
Sanctions regimes aren't simple, and they only work when their negative secondary effects do not outweigh their primary achievements.
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Sailors help Zeus, one of two dogs accompanying two mariners who were aided by the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Clay/Released) Sailors rescue Zeus
A sea dog gets some relief.
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The Chinese flag flies before a rising moon at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Dec. 13, 2013. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) The Next Space Race Is Artificial Intelligence
And the United States is losing.
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President Donald Trump greets Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak outside of the West Wing of the White House on Sept. 12. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) If Trump Forgets About Human Rights in Asia, the World Will Suffer
The United States ignores massive abuses at its own peril.
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President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Oct. 16. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Needs to Show That He Is Serious About America’s Rivalry With China
The president should use his trip to Asia to reassure allies and assert U.S. power.