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The National Defense Strategy Commission Report: Debating the Key Issues
Kathleen Hicks, Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr., Roger Zakheim, Elbridge Colby, Robert O. Work | January 15, 2019
Military, Veterans, & Society
To Retain Today’s Talent, the DoD Must Support Dual-Professional Couples
Talent management in the Department of Defense has received a great deal of critical attention over the last few years, but much of this thinking has centered on how the milit...
Strategy & Statecraft
The Shutdown Is Doing Lasting Damage to National Security
As the longest government shutdown in American history drags on, it’s not just hurting the morale of America’s federal work force and the broader American economy. It’s hurtin...
Defense
Dear Pentagon: It’s Not How Big Your Budget Is. It’s How You Use It.
Over the past two months, unusually public negotiations between the White House and the U.S. Department of Defense on the 2020 defense budget request have bounced from $733 bi...
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How Trump’s new chief of staff can impact the FY20 defense plan
In The News
Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney’s takeover, at least temporarily, of the White House chief of staff position could have repercussions for defense spendi...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Why the Bitcoin bomb hoax signals a dangerous new era for cybersecurity
In The News
School administrators, business owners and various other people across the U.S. and Canada received some strange emails on Thursday threatening them to pay $20,000 worth of Bi...
By Sam Dorshimer
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Project Maven Overseer Will Lead Pentagon’s New AI Center
In The News
Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, who oversaw the Pentagon’s controversial Project Maven artificial intelligence project, will lead its new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, or JAIC...
By Paul Scharre
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Iran deal, Saudi murder: Turbulent year shakes up Middle East
In The News
A murdered Saudi journalist. A scrapped Iran nuclear deal. The two events alone have undone years of diplomacy in the Middle East, testing old alliances and shaking up the reg...
By Nicholas Heras
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Turkey's Slap to the Face of America's Syria Policy
Press Note
Yesterday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the beginning of a military operation against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern and eastern Syria, crea...
By Nicholas Heras
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Rethinking Requirements and Risk in the New Space Age
Dr. John J. Klein is a senior fellow and strategist at Falcon Research Inc. and adjunct professor at the George Washington University Space Policy Institute. He writes on spac...
By John J. Klein
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Dear Pentagon: It’s Not How Big Your Budget Is. It’s How You Use It.
By Susanna V. Blume
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How Trump’s new chief of staff can impact the FY20 defense plan
By Susanna V. Blume
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Rethinking Requirements and Risk in the New Space Age
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It's Time for the U.S.-South Korea Alliance to Evolve
The alliance between the United States and South Korea has, for the past six decades, been a core pillar of the U.S.-led security architecture in Northeast Asia—but in recent ...
By Kristine Lee
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A New Cold War Has Begun
By Robert D. Kaplan
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In an Era of Divided Government, China Can Unite
By Richard Fontaine
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It's Time for the U.S.-South Korea Alliance to Evolve
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To Retain Today’s Talent, the DoD Must Support Dual-Professional Couples
Talent management in the Department of Defense has received a great deal of critical attention over the last few years, but much of this thinking has centered on how the milit...
By Tom Barron
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'Badass' national security women offer Democrats a Trump antidote
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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There Really Is No Place For Hazing In A Professional Military
By Kayla M. Williams
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To Retain Today’s Talent, the DoD Must Support Dual-Professional Couples
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What’s Worse Than Brexit? This.
It’s official: the delayed parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s initial Brexit deal with the European Union is now scheduled for Jan. 15. May has had a brutal co...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Amb. Ian Bond on Brexit and What's Next for Europe
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Ian Bond
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Congress must face reality in exposing Russian aggression
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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What’s Worse Than Brexit? This.
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If Trump Wants to Get Out of Syria, He Should Strike a Deal With Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American forces from Syria is a mistake. But if he insists on going ahead with it, the best option for the United States is ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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America’s Yo-Yo Diet in the Middle East
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Iran Nuclear Negotiations
By Ilan Goldenberg & Wendy Sherman
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If Trump Wants to Get Out of Syria, He Should Strike a Deal With Russia
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Why the Bitcoin bomb hoax signals a dangerous new era for cybersecurity
School administrators, business owners and various other people across the U.S. and Canada received some strange emails on Thursday threatening them to pay $20,000 worth of Bi...
By Sam Dorshimer
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Congress must face reality in exposing Russian aggression
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Trump's destabilizing "intervention" in Huawei CFO case
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Why the Bitcoin bomb hoax signals a dangerous new era for cybersecurity
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How Congress can help ensure US leadership in artificial intelligence
The age of artificial intelligence is upon us. AI is no longer a future technology but a present one. The AI revolution is highly global, with nations such as China playing a ...
By Paul Scharre & Ainikki Riikonen
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Why China’s Military Wants to Beat the US to a Next-Gen Cell Network
By Elsa B. Kania
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Quantum Hegemony
By Elsa B. Kania, John Costello & Paul Scharre
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How Congress can help ensure US leadership in artificial intelligence
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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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The Shutdown Is Doing Lasting Damage to National Security
As the longest government shutdown in American history drags on, it’s not just hurting the morale of America’s federal work force and the broader American economy. It’s hurtin...
By Carrie Cordero & Joshua A. Geltzer
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In a single tweet, Trump destroys U.S. policy in the Middle East
By Victoria Nuland
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Progressives Should Embrace the Politics of Defense
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The Shutdown Is Doing Lasting Damage to National Security
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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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Bombshell: Come What May
Erin, Radha, and Loren invited Dr. Lindsay Cohn of the U.S. Naval War College to join their posse and explain America’s history of employing the military for domestic purposes...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Lindsay Cohn, Radha Iyengar & Erin Simpson
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With Haley’s departure, senior Trump ranks feature even fewer women and minorities
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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Bombshell: Come What May
