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The Eroding Balance of Terror
Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars,” the American nuclear strategist Bernard Brodie wrote in 1946. “From now on its chief purpose mu...
By Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr.
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China’s Non-Traditional Espionage Against the United States: The Threat and Potential Policy Responses
Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Honorable Members of the Committee, it is a pleasure to be invited to speak to you today about one of the most important trade...
By Peter Harrell
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Technology & National Security
Autonomous Weapons and the Future of WarWhat 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 Ilan Goldenberg & Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Congress Can Help the United States Lead in Artificial IntelligenceThis week the U.S. Congress will hold hearings focusing on the Defense Department’s progress on artificial intelligence, a critical technology area. On the agenda is the new N...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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Amb. Azita Raji on Nordic Regional Security
Former U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Azita Raji joins Jim Townsend and Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor to discuss Nordic security, European military capabilities, and Trident Juncture....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Azita Raji
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Pompeo’s Speech in Brussels Was Tone-Deaf and Arrogant
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo set himself an impossible task for his speech in Brussels on Tuesday: take President Donald Trump’s disparaging and often contradictory remarks ...
By Julianne Smith
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Give Saudi Arabia a Take It or Leave It Deal
President Donald Trump released a statement on November 20 in which he supported Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s (MBS) claim that he had nothing to do with t...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Kaleigh Thomas
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National Security Human Capital Program
There Really Is No Place For Hazing In A Professional MilitaryThe vigorous Twitter response to the recent piece “There’s A Reason For All That Hazing And Ass-Chewing, And We Shouldn’t Ignore It” highlighted a need to disentangle a few ty...
By Kayla M. Williams
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To punish the Saudis, protect the Jamal Khashoggis still at work
Senate leaders who emerged from a closed-door briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel on Tuesday were unequivocal: Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was directly inv...
By Vance Serchuk
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Progressives Should Embrace the Politics of Defense
In his essay on what a progressive national security agenda should look like, Van Jackson proposes to stretch the common progressive position of anti-militarism to a more real...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Can the U.S. Reinstate “Maximum Pressure” on North Korea?
The diplomatic sprint to North Korean denuclearization has slowed to a crawl. Earlier last month, North Korea abruptly canceled talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,...
By Eric Brewer
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When Middle East Peace Almost Happened
When Bill Clinton took over as President in 1992, his then Middle East advisor Martin Indyk told him he has a chance to partner with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to se...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Martin Indyk
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
American Foreign Policy Could Use More PrudenceDuring George H. W. Bush’s single term in the White House, the Berlin Wall fell and Germany reunified peacefully, the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the Soviet Union crumbled and the ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Ending Gaza's Perpetual Crisis
Ilan Goldenberg joins the other authors of a new report by the Center for a New American Security and the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, "Ending Gaza’s Perpetual ...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Victoria Nuland, Hady Amr, Natan Sachs & Kevin Huggard
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Trump Should Not Have Canceled His Meeting With Putin at the G-20
In the runup to the gathering of world leaders in Argentina for the G-20 summit, a planned meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping has att...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The United States Should Give Saudi Arabia a Choice
You know the Trump administration’s efforts to salvage its approach toward Saudi Arabia are in trouble when Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the president’s closest allies, threate...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Derek Chollet
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Watch: WION Dispatch, November 30, 2018
Abigail Grace joins WION to survey the meetings, statements, and other actions of President Trump at the G20 Summit....
By Abigail Grace
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Technology & National Security
CNAS’ Scharre, Lockheed’s Maxwell on Onyx Exoskeleton and Super SoldiersPaul Scharre, director of the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security, and Keith Maxwell, the project manager of Lockheed Martin’s O...
By Paul Scharre & Keith Maxwell
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Alina Polyakova on the Russian Provocation in the Sea of Azov
Dr. Alina Polyakova, the David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend for...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Alina Polyakova
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Recommendations for US policy toward Gaza
In between spikes of violence, the people of the Gaza Strip live in a state of perpetual crisis—a man-made humanitarian disaster of severe urban crowding, staggering une...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Hady Amr, Natan Sachs & Adrianna Pita