Harold Brown, US Secretary of Defense under President Jimmy Carter, is author of Star Spangled Security: Applying Lessons Learned Over Six Decades Safeguarding America. He sits on the Defense Policy Board of the US Department of Defense, is Trustee Emeritus of the RAND Corporation, and a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Harold Brown
Commentaries by Harold Brown
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Europe and African Defense
WASHINGTON, DC – The European Union already faces considerable risks concerning its structure, uncertain economic recovery, north-south imba…
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America’s Trouble with China
WASHINGTON, DC – Xi Jinping, China’s newly anointed president, made his first visit to the United States in May 1980. He was a 27-year-old j…
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Hands Off Syria?
WASHINGTON, DC – More than any of the previous events in the Arab Spring, Syria’s turmoil has presented serious difficulties for Western pol…
Europe and African Defense
Zsolt Hermann: The situation is much more complicated, and severe. It is not only Africa where "global policemen" have to operate, the Middle East is increasingly unstable, the Far East is getting closer to boiling…
America’s Trouble with China
Yoshimichi Moriyama: "China has a very long way to go before it becomes- if it ever becomes- a true global power. And it will never 'rule the world'," says Prof. Daivid Shambaugh of Georgetown University in www.yalegloba…