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The Soldier’s Heavy Load
Lauren Fish, Paul Scharre | September 26, 2018
Technology & National Security
How to Defend Against Foreign Influence Campaigns: Lessons from Counter-Terrorism
Two weeks ago, a grand jury in Pennsylvania indicted seven Russian intelligence officers for state-sponsored hacking and influence operations. Both U.S. Attorney General Jeff ...
Transatlantic Security
Idaho is not immune to Russian meddling and disinformation
On Jan. 6, 2017, the United States intelligence community released a report documenting Russia’s interference in our elections. One of us, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, was a senior ...
Asia-Pacific Security
China’s Influence Operations Are Pinpointing America’s Weaknesses
On the margins of the 2018 United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an explosive claim, alleging that China was engaging in a campaign to influence ...
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Beyond the San Hai
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The United States has enjoyed largely uncontested naval supremacy across the blue waters, or open oceans, for decades. The rapid emergence of an increasingly global People’s L...
By Patrick M. Cronin, Mira Rapp-Hooper, Harry Krejsa, Alexander Sullivan & Rush Doshi
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Women are the Most Visible Servicemembers, and the Most Invisible Veterans
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One of the questions I’m most frequently asked when people find out I’m a veteran is, “But you didn’t go in harm’s way, did you?” I’ve been asked this question since I first j...
By Andrea N. Goldstein
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The Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
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The next president will inherit a relationship with Russia fraught with more tension than at any point since the Cold War. Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine sparked fear that ...
By Julianne Smith & Adam Twardowski
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#Virtual Caliphate
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Many policymakers, intelligence analysts, and academics believe expelling the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from Mosul and Raqqah is the key to t...
By General Joseph L. Votel, LTC Christina Bembenek, Charles Hans, Jeffery Mouton & Amanda Spencer
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Extending American Power
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Foreword by Robert Kagan and James P. Rubin Over the past year, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) brought together an extraordinary group of scholars, practitione...
By Amb. Eric S. Edelman, James B. Steinberg, Julianne Smith, Kurt Campbell, Michèle Flournoy, Richard Fontaine, James P. Rubin, Stephen J. Hadley, Dr. Robert Kagan & Robert Zoellick
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UK Director of International Security Policy on the US-UK Relationship and a Changing NATO
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Christian Mölling on German Defense Spending, Burden-Sharing, and Strategic Autonomy
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Quantum Hegemony? China’s Ambitions and the Challenge to U.S. Innovation Leadership
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Strategic Competition in an Era of Artificial Intelligence
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Pentagon looks to thwart Russian tech attacks in Syria
The Pentagon’s in-house tech incubator is trying to stop Russia from scrambling US battlefield signals in Syria, federal contract documents show. The Defense Advanced Research...
By Adam Routh
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If You Want Peace, Prepare for Nuclear War
By Elbridge Colby
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Inflection point: Army wrestles to strike balance between current and future capability
By Susanna V. Blume
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Pentagon looks to thwart Russian tech attacks in Syria
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For Japan, a Winning Formula is Cyber Defense and Innovation Offense
The already great and increasing importance of the cyber domain in strategic competition makes the need for Japan to advance its cyber-security and technology entrepreneurship...
By Krista Auchenbach & Daniel Kliman
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A Chinese intelligence agent has been extradited to the US to face espionage charges
By Abigail Grace
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Defense Intel Chief Worried About Chinese ‘Integration of Human and Machines’
By Elsa B. Kania
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For Japan, a Winning Formula is Cyber Defense and Innovation Offense
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If You Want Peace, Prepare for Nuclear War
In a little under three decades, nuclear weapons have gone from center stage to a sideshow in U.S. defense strategy. Since the 1990s, the United States has drastically reduced...
By Elbridge Colby
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AI experts tell MEPs ban on 'killer robots' is unrealistic
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Democrats Are Ignoring One Key Voting Group: Veterans
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If You Want Peace, Prepare for Nuclear War
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Idaho is not immune to Russian meddling and disinformation
On Jan. 6, 2017, the United States intelligence community released a report documenting Russia’s interference in our elections. One of us, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, was a senior ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Rachel Rizzo
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Angela Merkel Could Save Europe. Why Won’t She?
By Julianne Smith
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UK Director of International Security Policy on the US-UK Relationship and a Changing NATO
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Nick Gurr
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Idaho is not immune to Russian meddling and disinformation
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New details emerge in Khashoggi case as Pompeo tours Ankara
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the country’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, in Ankara today to discuss the latest d...
By Nicholas Heras
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Moscow, Ankara say Syria buffer going ahead despite missed deadline
By Nicholas Heras
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Jihadists fail to quit Syria buffer, throwing deal into doubt
By Nicholas Heras
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New details emerge in Khashoggi case as Pompeo tours Ankara
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Trump Should Calm Tensions With Europe Over Iran Sanctions
The Trump administration and the European Union are coming perilously close to a major escalation in their already substantial diplomatic and economic rift over Iran. European...
By Peter Harrell
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Mnuchin to Decide by Friday Whether to Cancel on Saudi Conference
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The EU Can’t Avoid U.S. Sanctions on Iran
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Trump Should Calm Tensions With Europe Over Iran Sanctions
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For Japan, a Winning Formula is Cyber Defense and Innovation Offense
The already great and increasing importance of the cyber domain in strategic competition makes the need for Japan to advance its cyber-security and technology entrepreneurship...
By Krista Auchenbach & Daniel Kliman
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China’s grip on electronics manufacturing will be hard to break
By Gregory C. Allen
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AI experts tell MEPs ban on 'killer robots' is unrealistic
By Wendy R. Anderson
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For Japan, a Winning Formula is Cyber Defense and Innovation Offense
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Loren DeJonge Schulman on Drones
Defense One Radio talks about drones, the national security bureaucracy, and the American way of war (1:49) with Loren DeJonge Schulman of the Center for a New American Securi...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Resisting Magical Thinking: Drones and National Security
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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What the Interwar Years Say About the US Army’s Newest Force Concept
By Lauren Fish
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Loren DeJonge Schulman on Drones
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How President Trump is helping Beijing win in the South China Sea
For years now, China has been at war against the United States in the South China Sea — only Washington didn’t notice until the process was well underway. The Chinese way of w...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Superpower Standoff: The U.S.-Chinese Battle for Global Supremacy
By Ely Ratner
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‘Earning the Rockies’ author Robert Kaplan answers your questions
By Robert D. Kaplan
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How President Trump is helping Beijing win in the South China Sea
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Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class
Washington, October 4 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) congratulates three Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship alumni who were named as 2017–20...
By Neal Urwitz
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Drone Proliferation
By Elisa Catalano Ewers, Lauren Fish, Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class
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With Haley’s departure, senior Trump ranks feature even fewer women and minorities
As an Indian American woman, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has occupied an unusual position in an administration whose broad lack of diversity at the highest levels of the feder...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The Messy Reality Inside the Pentagon, Captured in Fiction
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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A Woman? No Way!
By Asha Castleberry
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With Haley’s departure, senior Trump ranks feature even fewer women and minorities
