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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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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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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
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What Would a Larger Chinese Presence Mean for the Middle East?
The Middle East has emerged as a new theater of U.S.-China great power competition. Today, America’s military presence in the region coupled with its strong diplomatic relatio...
By Daniel Kliman
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National Security Human Capital Program
Perceptions of the Military CommunitySharpening America’s strategic edge and sustaining the U.S. military advantage is about more than technology and budgets. Crucially, it is also about people: the soldiers, sai...
By Kayla M. Williams
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How China's Military Is Becoming Stronger
The PRC claims that its policy for national defense is inherently defensive. However, the scope and scale of what the PLA may be called upon to defend is expanding, motivated ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Counterterrorism Lessons for the Digital Disinformation FightKey lessons in countering cyber operations may be found in counterterrorism operations. Kara Frederick, associate fellow at the CNAS Technology and National Security Program, ...
By Kara Frederick
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Transatlantic Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
A Conversation with Maggie Feldman-Piltch and #NatSecGirlSquad#NatSecGirlSquad founder and Unicorn Strategies managing director Maggie Feldman-Piltch joins Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the importance of competent div...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Maggie Feldman-Piltch
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Weaponizing Biotech: How China’s Military Is Preparing for a ‘New Domain of Warfare’Under Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy, the PLA is sponsoring research on gene editing, human performance enhancement, and more. We may be on the verge of a brave new...
By Elsa B. Kania & Wilson VornDick
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The Chinese Military Reforms and Transforms in the “New Era”
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been undergoing a far-reaching transformation with strategic implications for the military balance in the region and beyond. Sta...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Why Are Deepfakes So Effective?Public opinion shifts, skewed election results, mass confusion, ethnic violence, war. All of these events could easily be triggered by deep fakes—realistic seeming but falsifi...
By Martijn Rasser
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Women in National Security: Maggie Feldman-PiltchMaggie Feldman-Piltch joins the CNAS Women in National Security podcast mini-series on human capital to discuss the gaps she sees in launching and advancing careers in nationa...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Maggie Feldman-Piltch
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Technology & National Security
Setting the Stage for U.S. Leadership in 6GEvery day there are more headlines about China’s rise in 5G, the next generation of wireless communications technologies, and the economic and national security risksto the Un...
By Martijn Rasser
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Could the trade war with China topple the US oil sanctions framework?Tariffs, retaliatory tariffs and currency fights, the US and China are locked in a trade war with massive consequences for the global economy. What impact will this fight h...
By Neil Bhatiya & Ashley Feng
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The U.S. or China? Europe Needs to Pick a Side
Amid ten consecutive weeks of protest in Hong Kong, Beijing is looking to a seemingly unlikely place for support: Europe. In recent days, Chinese ambassadors across the contin...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Rachel Rizzo
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
The Old World and the Middle KingdomEurope is beginning to face up to the challenges posed by a rising China. From the political debates roiling European capitals over the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei...
By Julianne Smith & Torrey Taussig
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Strategy or Straitjacket? Three Reasons Why People Are Still Arguing About the National Defense Strategy
“It feels so weird to not intervene in the Middle East. I know we’re trying to avoid getting sucked in, but it’s hard to say no.” These were the words my colleague uttered dur...
By Chris Dougherty