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Technology & National Security
China Is Using America’s Own Plan to Dominate the Future of Artificial IntelligenceIn late 2016, the Obama administration published three reports that shared an extraordinary conclusion: advances in machine learning, a technology that allows systems to learn...
By Gregory C. Allen & Elsa B. Kania
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When Is It Time to End Sanctions Programs?
At the end of August, U.S. officials imposed new sanctions on Venezuela following the government’s crackdown on both the opposition and the country’s democratic institutions. ...
By Edoardo Saravalle
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Decoupling is back in Asia: A 1960s playbook won't solve these problems
It has been quite a summer in Pyongyang. Between July 4th, when it tested its first ICBM, and Labor Day weekend, when it detonated its sixth nuclear bomb — possibly a thermonu...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Wanted: A U.S. Strategic Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
China is engaging in a nearly trillion dollar play for the future of Afro-Eurasia—called the Belt and Road Initiative—and has so far caught the United States flat-footed. Unle...
By Daniel Kliman
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The Next Steps in North Korea Policy Should Be Implementation of New Sanctions Authorities
In the last month tensions over North Korea’s destabilizing nuclear threat have reached a fever pitch, with fresh missile launches from the peninsula, a new nuclear test, and ...
By Future of U.S. Sanctions Task Force
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Over-aggressive sanctions in Venezuela would backfire on the United States
Frustrated by a deteriorating situation in Venezuela, the Trump administration has widenedits sanctions program on the Maduro government, sending a strong signal to the regime...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Technology & National Security
Putin and Musk are right: Whoever masters AI will run the worldLast Friday, a million Russian schoolchildren watched a televised address from Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Artificial intelligence is the future, not only of Russia, bu...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Macron: Still the Answer for France?
From the west side of the Atlantic, France may appear to be experiencing a time of political calm. While President Donald Trump feeds news outlets a constant stream of staffin...
By Jessica Kolbe
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Technology & National Security
The trouble with trying to ban 'killer robots'Last month more than 100 robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) company CEOs signed an open letter to the UN warning of the dangers of autonomous weapons. For the past thre...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Course Correction: The Navy Needs to Invest in People, Not Just PlatformsOn a moonlit early morning with calm seas on June 17, the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald was conducting routine operations within sight of land, near Japan’...
By CDR Daniel G. Straub, USN & Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump is at war with his own generals
During his campaign for the White House, Donald Trump took the highly-unusual step of blasting America’s top generals, arguing in one debate that they’d been “reduced to rubbl...
By Phillip Carter
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Getting to Ground Truth on the Elevation of U.S. Cyber Command
One of my biggest frustrations during my time in the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s cyber policy office was the way elevating U.S. Cyber Command became overhyped. Cyber ...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Iran May Have a Lot of Friends in a Future Sanctions Fight With the United States
Read the full article in World Politics Review....
By Neil Bhatiya
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Don’t Call Them ‘Obama Holdovers.’ Call Them Patriots.
The "alt-right" Twitter personality Mike Cernovich is at it again, with fresh accusations against the “Obama holdovers” who are supposedly undermining the Trump administration...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Our navy is broken, and that is a bad thing
The recent string of ship collisions in the western Pacific is a clarion call to the American nation that its Navy is on the brink of combat ineffectiveness. This dismal condi...
By Jerry Hendrix
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What Is James Mattis Doing?
Defense Secretary James Mattis announced Tuesday night that he had ordered a comprehensive study of transgender troops in response to President Donald Trump’s tweets and order...
By Phillip Carter
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The Threat of Small-Dollar Terrorism
The recent ISIS terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils likely cost no more than a few thousand dollars—little more than the cost of renting vehicles and housing and feedi...
By Peter Harrell
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Technology & National Security
Killer Robots Drive Concern but Odds of Ban Less ClearThe past week has seen a flurry of news stories on “killer robots,” which wouldn’t be complete without the obligatory Terminator and Robocop images. Countries were supposed to...
By Paul Scharre
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How to Improve Return on Investment for Security Assistance
Security assistance is an expensive tool of statecraft, even if it is just one component of a total foreign aid allotment that represents only about one percent of the total U...
By Stephen Tankel
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Trump's smart sanctions can lead Venezuela back to democracy
Read the full op-ed in The Hill....
By Peter Harrell