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‘No Specific Agenda’ Means Trump Will Get Played by Putin, Again
Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet for first time at the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7 and 8. While few oppose the two leaders meeting face to face, the me...
By Julianne Smith
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Defense Problems as People Problems: Mattis's Human Capital Challenge
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis’s arrival in the Pentagon in late January was to launch an era of intra-Pentagon harmony — familiar face, familiar knife hands, well-known to b...
By Katherine Kidder & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Technology & National Security
AI Will Make Forging Anything Entirely Too Easy“Lordy, I hope there are tapes,” said an exasperated James Comey in his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8. Comey’s desire reflects a familiar one fo...
By Gregory C. Allen
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For U.S. Aid to the Palestinians, Don’t Use a Sledgehammer When a Scalpel Would Do
Taylor Force, a U.S. Army veteran who survived combat in Iraq, was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in a knife attack in Tel Aviv last year. His death, which occurred while...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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It’s Time for NATO to Look North
Now that President Donald Trump finally has endorsed Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, putting minds on both sides of the Atlantic more at ease, it’s time for the alliance to get ...
By Julianne Smith & Rachel Rizzo
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An Unsung Foreign Service Hero
Jerry Weaver died in May 2016, at age 77. I only learned about his passing through an old friend the other day. I learned as well that there wasn’t even a public funeral servi...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Technology & National Security
Drones aren't missiles, so don't regulate them like they areThis year marks the 30th anniversary of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a voluntary arrangement founded by seven countries in 1987 to prevent the spread of longe...
By Michael Horowitz
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National Security Human Capital Program
Too Many Generals in the Situation Room?From the moment President Trump nominated James Mattis as his secretary of defense, the swamp has made hand-wringing over civil-military relations a fine art. There are vetera...
By Amy Schafer & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Restructuring the Defense Relationship with Pakistan
As the Trump administration plans to send several thousand additional troops to Afghanistan, it continues to grapple with a comprehensive strategy for the region. Any such str...
By Stephen Tankel
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Russia's Pipeline Power
For months, Washington has been fixated on Russia’s interference in our presidential election, as well as similar concerns in elections of our European allies like France and ...
By Edoardo Saravalle
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An Open Letter on BRAC
Commentary
CNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy and Director of Studies Shawn Brimley signed a bipartisan open letter urging Congress to authorize a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round. The u...
By Michèle Flournoy & Shawn Brimley
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The Cyclical Politics of Counterterrorism
Why didn’t the United States invade Afghanistan and destroy Al Qaeda before September 11, 2001? This isn’t as farfetched as it might sound. In 2001, President Bush issued a ...
By Adam Klein
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RT and the 'Little Green Men' of News
New French President Emmanuel Macron received overwhelmingly positive reviews for saying that Russian state-owned media outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik "behaved like dec...
By Neal Urwitz
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Fostering Inclusive Growth in India Through Partnership
Private capital is soaring in, but roughly 800 million people live on less than $2 a day. Hundreds of millions of people have moved into the middle class in recent years, yet...
By Manpreet Singh Anand
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How Trump’s Black and White World View Met Reality in the Middle East
It was only three weeks ago that President Donald Trump, in Riyadh, proclaimed that he had secured unprecedented unity amongst Sunni governments to fight the two scourges all ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Tamara Cofman Wittes
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How Trump’s Black and White World View Met Reality in the Middle East
It was only three weeks ago that President Donald Trump, in Riyadh, proclaimed that he had secured unprecedented unity amongst Sunni governments to fight the two scourges all ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Technology & National Security
Countering disinformation online will require long-term engagement from the fedsTechnology companies and DC policymakers are lost in the fog of disinformation. Bombarded with too much information from too many refutable sources, they have responded in a p...
By Madeline Christian
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Is America Getting Sucked Into More War in Syria?
While Washington was fixated this week by former FBI director James Comey’s testimony, on the other side of the planet, a major story was playing out that could have profound ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Phil Carter on why Russia is Still the Real Scandal
Confronted by the glare of Thursday’s dazzling Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, we all focused on the bright shiny object that was and is former FBI Director J...
By Phillip Carter
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Treating Listeners with Respect
I spent last weekend with my two-year-old twin nieces. They both love riding on this little rocking zebra. And if one of them is rocking, you can be sure the other is going to...
By Neal Urwitz
