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Kori Schake

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Dr. Kori Schake is the Deputy Director-General of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). She was a distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution and is the editor, with Jim Mattis, of the book Warriors and Citizens: American Views of Our Military. 

She has served in various policy roles including at the White House for the National Security Council; at the Department of Defense for the Office of the Secretary and Joint Chiefs of Staff and the State Department for the Policy Planning Staff.  During the 2008 presidential election, she was Senior Policy Advisor on the McCain-Palin campaign.

She has been profiled in publications ranging from national news to popular culture including the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and Vogue Magazine.

Her recent publications include: Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony (Harvard University Press, 2017), Republican Foreign Policy After Trump (Survival, Fall 2016), National Security Challenges for the Next President (Orbis, Winter 2017), and Will Washington Abandon the Order?, (Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2017).

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Today’s Military Needs to be Run More Like a Business

by Kori Schakevia Room for Debate (New York Times)
Monday, July 14, 2014

In the near term, the threats to our interests are numerous small-scale contingencies against militaries not our equal but with pockets of high-tech or disruptive capabilities, like nuclear weapons, cyber or accurate ballistic missiles. In the longer term, there is the potential for China to become a military threat that could challenge us across the military spectrum.

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@ISIS Is #Winning

by Kori Schakevia ForeignPolicy.com
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham is running a brilliantly effective social media campaign. With the group rebranded as the Islamic State (IS), its grisly messaging gets attention and discourages resistance to its military operations, both where it is fighting and among countries that might be inclined to intervene against it.

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How to Lose Friends and Alienate Allies

by Kori Schakevia ForeignPolicy.com
Monday, June 30, 2014

 The Obama administration has achieved a landmark heretofore considered impossible: they are making America's allies homesick for the administration of George W. Bush. 

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Withdrawal Symptoms

by Kori Schakevia Foreign Policy
Friday, June 13, 2014

So this is what a "responsible withdrawal" from Iraq looks like? Mosul overrun by terrorists more virulently dangerous than al Qaeda. Iraqi security forces throwing off their uniforms and fleeing, leaving all their high-end hardware -- paid for by the American taxpayer -- in the hands of our enemies.

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The War We Won, and the Wars to Come

by Kori Schakevia Foreign Policy
Thursday, June 5, 2014

D-Day is a hallowed day and, fittingly, follows close after Memorial Day, when we Americans grieve and celebrate our war dead.

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Security and Solvency

by Kori Schakevia Orbis
Sunday, June 1, 2014

The American defense establishment has come to think of itself as the victim of complex and demanding threats, political irresponsibility and public apathy. 

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A Litany of Grandiose Claims

by Kori Schakevia Room for Debate (New York Times)
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

President Obama’s speech was a litany of grandiose claims unenforced by policy: a paean to the Law of the Sea Convention, of which he has put no effort into ratification; a restatement of the need to close Guantanamo; “new restrictions on how America collects and uses intelligence”; a “willingness to act on behalf of human dignity.”

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World Puzzle

Schake on Fox News: “there’s no way that this plebiscite is actually going to tell us what the people of Ukraine think”

by Kori Schakevia Fox News
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Hoover research fellow Kori Schake discusses the foreign policy on Fox News. Topics include the referendum held in Eastern Ukraine, the need for European support to proceed with sanctions, and the Benghazi select committee.

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Special: the John Batchelor Show from the Hoover retreat

by Peter Berkowitz, Abbas Milani, Kori Schake, Kiron K. Skinnervia John Batchelor Show
Friday, May 9, 2014

As part of the annual Hoover Spring Retreat, John Batchelor of the John Batchelor Show and Mary Kissell of the Wall Street Journal did a special live taping of the John Batchelor Show featuring Hoover senior fellow Peter Berkowitz and Hoover research fellows Abbas Milani, Kori Schake, and Kiron Skinner. The topic of the discussion was President Obama’s Biggest Foreign Policy Challenges.

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Strategika: “Understanding Ukraine” with Kori Schake

by Kori Schakevia Strategika
Friday, May 9, 2014

Kori Schake explains how the history of Ukraine informs the current impasse with Russia, how the present conflict is likely to play out, and what the implications are for the future.

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State of Disrepair: Fixing the Culture and Practices of the State Department

by Kori Schake
Mar. 12, 2012