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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump's cancelled peace talks with the TalibanChristopher D. Kolenda is a retired US army colonel, and a veteran of the Afghan war. He also played a key role in facilitating peace talks with the Taliban. He tells Deutsche...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Technology & National Security
When your data is held hostageTechnology and security expert Kara Frederick explains how and why U.S. local governments and electoral rolls are vulnerable to ransomware and what can be done about it. List...
By Kara Frederick
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Ending the war in Afghanistan
Christopher D. Kolenda joins The World and Everything in It to discuss the latest developments in talks between the United States and the Taliban. Listen to the full conversa...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Great-Power Competition Is Washington’s Top Priority—But Not the Public’sFor all the acrimony in Washington today, the city’s foreign policy establishment is settling on a rare bipartisan consensus: that the world has entered a new era of great-pow...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Two Cheers for Esper’s Plan to Reassert Civilian Control of the PentagonThe longest-ever gap in civilian leadership atop the Department of Defense came to an end on July 23, when Mark Esper was sworn in as secretary of defense. His presence in the...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Alice Hunt Friend & Mara Karlin
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Brexit with Luke Coffey and Amanda Sloat
Luke Coffey of The Heritage Foundation and Dr. Amanda Sloat of the Brookings Institution join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend for a rundown of the latest Brexit develop...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Dr. Amanda Sloat & Luke Coffey
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
The Low Road: Charting China's Digital ExpansionAs Beijing tightens control of the Internet within its own borders, what consequences lie ahead for people living under other authoritarian regimes and fragile democracies?...
By Kara Frederick, Daniel Kliman & Ely Ratner
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Technology & National Security
The Rise of Municipal RansomwareLast month’s coordinated ransomware attacks against 23 cities in Texas reflect a troubling trend for America’s cities: bad actors are addicted to the payoff. In the 30 years s...
By Kara Frederick
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Welcome to the New Phase of US-China Tech Competition
It came without a breaking news alert or presidential tweet, but the technological competition with China entered a new phase last month. Several developments quietly heralded...
By Ashley Feng & Lorand Laskai
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Technology & National Security
Beyond the Arms Race Narrative: AI & China with Helen Toner & Elsa KaniaDiscussions of Chinese artificial intelligence frequently center around the trope of a U.S.-China arms race. On this month’s FLI podcast, we’re moving beyond the arms race nar...
By Elsa B. Kania & Helen Toner
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The Key Role Pakistan Is Playing In U.S.-Taliban Talks
A bomb parked under the preacher's pulpit in a mosque likely had a high-profile target: a brother of the Taliban leader. It was seen by the Taliban as a warning to stop their ...
By Stephen Tankel
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Energy, Economics & Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
How to Reform IEEPAOver the weekend, President Trump cited a 1977 statute, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as providing the legal authority he would need to carry throug...
By Peter Harrell
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Women in National Security: Emma MooreEmma Moore joins the CNAS Women in National Security podcast mini-series on human capital to discuss changing the requirements for national service....
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Emma Moore
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
In Military-Civil Fusion, China is Learning Lessons from the United States and Starting to InnovateChina’s national strategy of “military-civil fusion” (军民融合) is provoking some anxiety in Washington.1 There are concerns the United States could be challenged, or even outrigh...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
What would John McCain do?A year ago, the world lost Sen. John McCain. The global response to his passing — largely grief and appreciation from allies and democratic activists, mostly silence from adve...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Balkans Will Pay a Heavy Price for China's Global Ambitions
Since President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan in 2013, framing it as an overland strategy to connect Asia to Europe, China’s inroads in the W...
By Karina Barbesino & Kristine Lee
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Here’s How Trump Should Have Approached Greenland
The news that U.S. President Donald Trump was pushing to purchase Greenland probably didn’t take its government entirely by surprise. The United States has long harbored desig...
By Jim Townsend
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Iran Under Sanctions: A Scramble For Cancer Care And Blame To Go Around
At a cancer treatment center in Iran's capital of Tehran, a doctor's fight to treat her cancer patients has become harder. As U.S. sanctions sink in, the flow of medicine and ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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National Security Human Capital Program
Every Marine a Blue-Haired Quasi-Rifleperson?All the U.S. military services suffer a shortage of competent and experienced cyber talent. But with a tiny pool of eligible candidates willing to do work for the Department o...
By Emma Moore & Nina Kollars
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The Pentagon's IG Cautions Trump to Not Let ISIS Rebuild in Syria
Nick Heras joins Ian Masters to discuss the possibility of an ISIS resurgence in Syria and the Pentagon's options to prevent it. Listen to the full conversation on KPFK LA's ...
By Nicholas Heras