There are currently real pressures on U.S. ground forces to define their contingency future.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Asan Institute for Policy Studies cohosted a workshop on “Korea as a Responsible Nuclear Supplier” on February 18, 2013, at the Asan Institute in Seoul.

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By Christopher Johnson, Victor Cha, and Michael Green

Over the past month, North Korea's 29-year-old leader, Kim Jong Un, has threatened to attack Washington with nuclear weapons, declared a state of war with neighboring South Korea...

The mix of ongoing defense cuts from prior years, the impact of sequestration in March, and the president’s proposed 2014 defense budget have created a series of complex shifts that are changing America’s military posture.

This report was produced by the CSIS Nuclear Consensus Working Group (NCWG) to assist the Obama administration in forging, during its second term, an enduring consensus about the U.S. nuclear posture.

The United States and South Korea announced today that they have agreed on a two-year extension of the current bilateral civil nuclear agreement (the so-called 123 agreement) rather than seek a revised and new agreement. This announcement in the run-up to the summit...

Syria has become the land of bad options. The Obama administration has reason to hesitate in intervening, particularly when outsiders call for unilateral U.S. miracles. Low levels of initial violence can easily escalate into far more serious conflict. No one can predict who...

Since World War II, the Arctic has been a region of geostrategic importance to the United States.

The president, civilian and military defense leaders, and some members of the Congress have spent the last year-and-a-half decrying the effects of budget cuts on the Department of Defense (DoD).

Early in the thermonuclear age, Herman Kahn warned the world that it had to “think about the unthinkable”: The consequences of an actual nuclear war, and consider which side – if any – might “win.”

The bulk of international counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and related efforts over the last decade have focused on targeting a select few extremist organizations such as al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban.