Subject: Editors' Picks: Why the Vietnam model is bad for Kim Jong Un and how the United States lost Syria.
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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:14:20 -0500 (CDT)

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EDITORS' PICKS

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07/23/2018

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today, we look at why the Vietnam model bodes ill for Kim Jong Un, how the United States lost the war in Syria, and why the Pakistani election’s outcome will not rid the country of its chronic instability and poor civil-military relations.

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Can't do this alone: There's no place for individual strongmen in Hanoi's version of communist power, Bennett Murray reports.

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Game over: Bashar al-Assad won in Syria. It’s worth thinking about why the United States didn’t, FP's Steven A. Cook writes.

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Rigged: Pakistan’s generals want the facade of democracy, but they do not let any politician grow into the job, Husain Haqqani writes.

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The Weakest Link: The four-nation mechanism known as the Quad was set up to contain Chinese maritime expansionism, but New Delhi is having second thoughts, Derek Grossman writes.

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Security Brief: Catch up on everything you need to know about Trump’s tweeted threat against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the fallout from the Helsinki summit, the Air Force’s plan to invest in hypersonic weapons, and other top news.

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