This is right about the time where Jill Stein, Claudia de la Cruz, Cornel West, Joesph Kisdore, and all the other Indy Left candidates should get together and agree to join forces for a Left Unity candidate to sound the alarm about the coming of WWIII.
Though, I didn't think Brookings, which has the rep of being the more "liberal" foreign policy think tank, would go as far as more right-wing orgs like CSIS.
Never said that they weren't. Only saying that I didn't expect it to be so explicit from them, as compared to a much more explicitly right-wing pro-Zionist shop like Center for Strategic International Studies.