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Combating Populism
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Carisa Nietsche | March 19, 2020
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The United States and China are locked in strategic competition over the future of the Indo-Pacific—the most populous, dynamic, and consequential region in the world....
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Sanctions by the Numbers
The United States uses financial sanctions as a prominent tool of foreign policy. While this tool is used with increasing frequency and popularity, there is relatively limited...
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Forging an Alliance Innovation Base
Executive Summary This report presents a blueprint for a community of technology innovation and protection anchored by America and its allies. Unless the United States builds ...
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Iran, Venezuela and other U.S. foes fight coronavirus amid American sanctions
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Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Islamic faction in Lebanon deemed a terrorist group by the U.S., has decades of experience fighting wars. But not the kind it launched this week. Ar...
By Peter Harrell
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Russia Scores Pandemic Propaganda Triumph With Medical Delivery to U.S.
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As top American officials bash the Russian government for spreading disinformation on the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump is accepting a supply of medical eq...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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One controversial aspect of Trump's response to COVID-19 is right
In The News
President Trump's response to COVID-19 has been rambling, chaotic, and petty. Lagging rather than leading international efforts to fight the virus, the US is grappling with cr...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Newest US Sanctions on China's Huawei Could Backfire
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Worsening relations between Washington and Beijing could trigger punishing new US restrictions on Huawei’s supply of cutting-edge microchips. But some experts believe this wou...
By Elsa B. Kania
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U.S. ignores calls to suspend Venezuela and Iran sanctions amid coronavirus pandemic
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At a time when all of humanity is facing a common, invisible, enemy, world leaders have called for a suspension of economic sanctions that have increasingly become the pursuit...
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Let Them Work From Home
Earlier this week Defense One reported that senior military service branch representatives requested a one-month delay in the submission of their annual budgets, arguing that ...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Immigrant doctors want to help the Army fight the coronavirus. The Pentagon won’t let them.
By Paul Scharre
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Indo-Pacom Presses All Domain Ops; Sends Plan To Hill Soon
By Eric Sayers & Daniel Kliman
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Let Them Work From Home
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Can America Trust the Taliban to Prevent Another 9/11?
For nearly 20 years, the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan has been sustained by a single, vital national interest: the clear and present danger of another September 11–like at...
By David H. Petraeus & Vance Serchuk
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Global Supply Chains, Economic Decoupling, and U.S.-China Relations, Part 1: The View from the United States
By Sagatom Saha & Ashley Feng
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One controversial aspect of Trump's response to COVID-19 is right
By Richard Fontaine
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Can America Trust the Taliban to Prevent Another 9/11?
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Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update
It has been five years since the ban on women in combat was lifted in 2015 and women began integrating previously closed combat arms billets in January 2016. Five years is the...
By Emma Moore
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VA must improve access to high-quality care for transgender veterans
By Kayla M. Williams
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Navy Docks Carrier, Marines Weigh Buzz Cuts as Virus Spreads
By Emma Moore
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Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update
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Russia Scores Pandemic Propaganda Triumph With Medical Delivery to U.S.
As top American officials bash the Russian government for spreading disinformation on the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump is accepting a supply of medical eq...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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How China Is Exploiting the Pandemic to Export Authoritarianism
By David Shullman
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China, Europe, and COVID-19 with CNAS’s Ashley Feng and Kristine Lee
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Kristine Lee & Ashley Feng
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Russia Scores Pandemic Propaganda Triumph With Medical Delivery to U.S.
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Sharper: Global Coronavirus Response
As regions across the United States enforce states of emergency and a growing list of countries restrict travel, close schools, and quarantine citizens, the economic and human...
By Chris Estep & Cole Stevens
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With Iran tensions high, a US military command pushes a dubious carrier strategy
By Kaleigh Thomas
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9/11 swallowed U.S. foreign policy. Don’t let the coronavirus do the same thing.
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Sharper: Global Coronavirus Response
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Is U.S. Policy Towards Venezuela at a Turning Point?
On March 31, the Trump administration announced a pivot in U.S. policy towards Venezuela. The United States has spent more than a year backing opposition leader Juan Guaido, w...
By John Hughes & Peter Harrell
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Iran, Venezuela and other U.S. foes fight coronavirus amid American sanctions
By Peter Harrell
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Global Supply Chains, Economic Decoupling, and U.S.-China Relations, Part 1: The View from the United States
By Sagatom Saha & Ashley Feng
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Is U.S. Policy Towards Venezuela at a Turning Point?
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Global Supply Chains, Economic Decoupling, and U.S.-China Relations, Part 1: The View from the United States
The trade war has defined the current adversarial relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). While President Donald J. Trump has at times...
By Sagatom Saha & Ashley Feng
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The Newest US Sanctions on China's Huawei Could Backfire
By Elsa B. Kania
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Health Surveillance Is Here to Stay
By Carrie Cordero & Richard Fontaine
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Global Supply Chains, Economic Decoupling, and U.S.-China Relations, Part 1: The View from the United States
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Guess Who’s a Drone Power Now. Turkey
Turkey might never develop its own stealth fighter, but the country has become a major user, and seller, of an entirely different class of warplane. Armed drones. Tunisia in m...
By Samuel Bendett
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The Iranian Missile Strike Did Far More Damage Than Trump Admits
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Paul Scharre
- CNAS Launches “America Competes 2020”
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Guess Who’s a Drone Power Now. Turkey
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VA must improve access to high-quality care for transgender veterans
Nearly two years ago, I argued that then-incoming VA Secretary Robert Wilkie should expand care to transgender veterans, removing the exclusion of gender confirmation surgery ...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Coronavirus rattles America's national security priesthood
By Richard Fontaine
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Health Surveillance Is Here to Stay
By Carrie Cordero & Richard Fontaine
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VA must improve access to high-quality care for transgender veterans
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Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update
It has been five years since the ban on women in combat was lifted in 2015 and women began integrating previously closed combat arms billets in January 2016. Five years is the...
By Emma Moore
- CNAS Launches “America Competes 2020”
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Mike Pompeo Is Bigger Than the Pentagon — For Now
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update
