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Russia in the Arctic: Gauging How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Will Alter Regional Dynamics
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Nicholas Lokker, Heli Hautala, Col James Frey, with contributions from Jim Danoy, Rebecca Pincus, Katarzyna Zysk | September 15, 2022
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Precision and Posture: Defense Spending Trends and the FY23 Budget Request
This report examines the fiscal year (FY) 2023 defense budget request and assesses whether it sufficiently resources what was known of the Biden administration’s national defe...
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China launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—originally called “One Belt, One Road”—nine years ago, pledging to use its vast financial resources and construction capacity...
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Rewire: Semiconductors and U.S. Industrial Policy
As the United States considers industrial policy for the first time in decades, it should learn lessons from prior government efforts to shape the semiconductor industry, in t...
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Ukraine Suicide Drone Closer to Induction by Year’s-End
In The News
Citing drone expert Samuel Bendett, Forbes wrote that Ukraine has only a handful of Swifts left, limiting their further use. However, he added that the introduction of the new...
By Samuel Bendett
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Rollback of COVID Vaccine Mandate Met with Furor at Pentagon
In The News
Katherine L. Kuzminski, a military policy expert at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, said disciplinary problems can arise when rank-and-file troops see th...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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New CNAS Report: "Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent Extremism in the Military, Veteran, & Law Enforcement Communities"
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Washington, December 6, 2022—Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, "Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent...
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The Military Still Has No Good Way to Spot Extremist Recruits and Troops on Social Media
In The News
The military has struggled to address the problem, saying the numbers of extremists in the ranks are relatively small. Austin ordered an extremism working group in the months ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Russia’s Story on the Mysterious Explosions That Rocked Bases Housing Strategic Bombers Acknowledges a Glaring Weakness
In The News
Russia's story in the wake of mysterious explosions at two air bases acknowledges an embarrassing weakness in its ability to defend its military installations. It argued that ...
By Samuel Bendett
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How to Stop the Next World War
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given us a glimpse of what the return of industrial-scale warfare would mean....
By Robert O. Work & Eric Schmidt
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The Crimea Question: Why Ukraine’s Final Battle Might Be the Western Alliance’s Toughest Test
By Chris Dougherty
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The Kadena Conundrum: Developing a Resilient Indo-Pacific Posture
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Andrew Metrick & Becca Wasser
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How to Stop the Next World War
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China’s COVID Narrative Is Backfiring
The Chinese government wanted “to make an argument that in the capitalist United States, in democracy, they let loose because the government needed to force you back to work, ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Seventh Meeting of Astana Club Puts Global Relations into Spotlight
By Lisa Curtis
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Opportunities and Challenges for Trade Policy in the Digital Economy
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China’s COVID Narrative Is Backfiring
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Rollback of COVID Vaccine Mandate Met with Furor at Pentagon
Katherine L. Kuzminski, a military policy expert at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, said disciplinary problems can arise when rank-and-file troops see th...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent Extremism in the Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Communities
By Carrie Cordero, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Arona Baigal & Josh Campbell
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The Military Still Has No Good Way to Spot Extremist Recruits and Troops on Social Media
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Rollback of COVID Vaccine Mandate Met with Furor at Pentagon
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War in Ukraine Continues to Slow as Winter’s Grip Tightens
Jeffrey Edmonds, a research scientist, focusing on the Russian military at the research and analysis organization CNA, joins Here & Now's Scott Tong to unpack the latest o...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Ukraine War Bleeds into Russia-U.S. Nuclear Talks
By Jim Townsend
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After Kherson, Ukraine’s Military Ponders New Push South and East
By Michael Kofman
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War in Ukraine Continues to Slow as Winter’s Grip Tightens
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Turkey Threatens Another Syria Invasion
Erdogan already used a rally of his Justice and Development Party to brag about the strikes into Syria that Turkey has carried out in recent days and a possible ground invasio...
By Jonathan Lord
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Turkey’s Looming Invasion of Syria Tests US-Kurdish Ties
By Jonathan Lord
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US Tells Turkey Ground Incursion in Syria ‘Will Not Resolve’ Its Security Concerns
By Jonathan Lord
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Turkey Threatens Another Syria Invasion
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EU Edges Closer to $60-per-Barrel Russian Oil Price Cap
Mnuchin told CNBC during a panel in November at the Milken Institute’s Middle East and Africa Summit that the price cap was “not only not feasible, I think it’s the most ridic...
By Rachel Ziemba
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What’s the Effect of Europe’s Planned Price Cap on Russian Oil?
By Rachel Ziemba
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At $60, the Cap on Oil Prices Will Build Pressure on Russia
By Rachel Ziemba
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EU Edges Closer to $60-per-Barrel Russian Oil Price Cap
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Ukraine Suicide Drone Closer to Induction by Year’s-End
Citing drone expert Samuel Bendett, Forbes wrote that Ukraine has only a handful of Swifts left, limiting their further use. However, he added that the introduction of the new...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s Story on the Mysterious Explosions That Rocked Bases Housing Strategic Bombers Acknowledges a Glaring Weakness
By Samuel Bendett
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‘Policy Seems Very Rushed’: Expert on Police Using Robots for Lethal Force
By Paul Scharre
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Ukraine Suicide Drone Closer to Induction by Year’s-End
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Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent Extremism in the Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Communities
Executive Summary In recent years, the involvement of currently serving military members and law enforcement officers, as well as veterans of those two professions, in domesti...
By Carrie Cordero, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Arona Baigal & Josh Campbell
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Carrie Cordero on the Latest January 6 Trials
By Carrie Cordero
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Carrie Cordero Keynote Speech: "Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent Extremism in the Military, Veterans and Law Enforcement Communities"
By Carrie Cordero
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Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent Extremism in the Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Communities
