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Combat High
Commentary
Afew months before the United States invaded Iraq, in 2003, Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary at the time, was asked on a radio show how long the war would take. “Five da...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Exit the Peacemaker
Commentary
Monday, as an American delegation including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Steve Mnuchin, and top Republicans from Congress gathers for a ceremony to mark the transfer of the U....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The US Should Embrace the EU’s New Defense-Cooperation Plan
Commentary
In late December, all but three European Union nations agreed to activate the continent’s latest, and perhaps most promising, effort to coordinate their defense investments. T...
By Rachel Rizzo & Gene Germanovich
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Donald Trump’s Shadow War
Commentary
Five days after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump dined with some members of his national security team. During the meal, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and...
By Stephen Tankel
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Values Diplomacy
Video
CNAS’s Patrick Cronin joins J. James Kim, Michael J. Green, Hikotani Takako, and James B. Steinberg for a discussion on values diplomacy at the Asan Plenum 2018 Night Session....
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump-North Korea Summit Is A Game Changer, Fontaine Says
Podcast
David Greene talks to Richard Fontaine, ex-foreign policy adviser to Sen. John McCain, about a dramatic week in U.S. foreign policy. Fontaine is president of the Center for a ...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Accompany They Keep: What Niger Tell Us About Accompany Missions, Combat, and Operations Other than War
Commentary
The Department of Defense just released the public report on the ambush in Niger last October that killed four U.S. soldiers — a succinct eight-page summary of the reportedly ...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Or when a weapon that can hunt its own targets is hacked? Although it sounds like science fiction, the...
By Paul Scharre
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Analysis of the Trump Administration’s Drone Export Policy
Podcast
Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, discusses the Trump Administration’s recent Drone Export Policy and its relat...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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Trump's Personal Approach To Policy On Display Ahead Of N. Korea Summit
Podcast
President Trump says he will greet three Americans released from North Korea when they land in the U.S. early on Thursday. Trump tweeted out the news exactly a week...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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Here’s What to Expect Now That Trump Has Withdrawn From the Iran Nuclear Deal
Commentary
On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump fulfilled one of his campaign promises and took the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. ...
By Richard Nephew & Ilan Goldenberg
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Getting Out and About: Talking with Americans Beyond Washington About Their Place in the World
Commentary
On any given day in Washington, dozens of think tanks that work on national security issues are busy drafting policy memos, meeting with embassy staff and foreign visitors, te...
By Julianne Smith
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Israel's Security at 70: Panels on Regional Security and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Video
CNAS's Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras join the Israel Policy Forum for a panel on Israel security seventy years after its founding. Watch more from the IPF...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Autonomous Weapons or “Killer Robots”: The Next Threat to World Peace?
Podcast
Our guest is Paul Scharre, a former Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s the director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New A...
By Paul Scharre
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MWI Podcast: The Future of Autonomous War, with Paul Scharre
Podcast
The fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and autonomous technology are exploding in development. So how will these advancements change the way we fight future ...
By Paul Scharre
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The Dish | May 8, 2018
Welcome to The Dish! Curated by the CNAS Transatlantic Security Team, the Dish sends you the latest in transatlantic relations once a week. If this is your first time receivin...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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Christian Mölling on Macron and Merkel’s Washington Visits and German Defense Policy
Podcast
Christian Mölling, Deputy Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, discusses the German perspective on President Macron’s and Chancellor Merkel’s recent visits to ...
By Julianne Smith, Jim Townsend & Christian Mölling
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The Trump Administration's Policy Toward Taiwan
Commentary
Less than a month after the November 2016 election and several weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration, U.S. policy toward Taiwan faced an early defining moment. On December ...
By Patrick Cronin
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Impact of Sanctions on the Russian Economy
Video
Current and former officials from the Treasury and State Departments talked about the impact of imposing sanctions on the Russian economy. This event was part of a Center for ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Moscow Has Little Reason to Return to the INF Treaty
Commentary
Vladimir Putin says he wants to resolve the latest arms race with the United States. But progress on arms control depends on Russia moving back into compliance with the Interm...
By Alexander Velez-Green
