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The Dish | March 6, 2018
Welcome to The Dish! Curated by the CNAS Transatlantic Security Team, the Dish sends you the latest in transatlantic relations once a week. If this is your first time receivin...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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Baathism Caused the Chaos in Iraq and Syria
Commentary
The United States intervened militarily in Iraq in 2003, 15 years ago this month, and the result was war and chaos. But the United States did not intervene in Syria in 2011 wh...
By Robert Kaplan
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Lessons for the Navy from SpaceX and the Commercial Sector
Commentary
The United States Navy has a goal of increasing its fleet from its current inventory of 280 ships to 355, but its recently released 30-year shipbuilding plan does not reach th...
By Jerry Hendrix
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It is time for Trump to send H.R. McMaster to Afghanistan
Commentary
It is time to send H.R. McMaster to Afghanistan. Following reports of the National Security Advisor’s imminent departure from the White House, speculation on where the lieuten...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Can South Korea Really Defuse the North's Nuclear Threat?
South Korea’s high-powered envoys sent to Pyongyang to prepare for a possible summit have apparently extracted from Kim Jong Un’s regime an idea that many on the outside assum...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Full Metal Podcast: Show Me the Money
Podcast
This week on Full Metal Podcast, the CNAS defense team talks all things budget. First, the team discusses details of the newly released President's budget for fiscal year 2019...
By Adam Routh, Jerry Hendrix & Lauren Fish
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The Future of Fighting Terrorist Financing
Podcast
Elizabeth Rosenberg, Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program leads a discussion on new strategies and tools to counter terrorist financing. S...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg, Tom Keatinge, David Murray & Kris Doucette
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The Trap of Empire and Authoritarianism
Commentary
For thousands of years the tragedy of politics has been that empire affords the answer to chaos. Imperialism, as the Oxford historian John Darwin says, “has been the default m...
By Robert Kaplan
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Safety Analysis of Leishmania Vaccine Used in a Randomized Canine Vaccine/Immunotherapy Trial
In Leishmania infantum–endemic countries, controlling infection within dogs, the domestic reservoir, is critical to public health. There is a need for safe vaccines that preve...
By Molly Parrish
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Everything here is fakeI recently had a private tour of Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. I was shown the famous stage where the original “King Kong” was filmed. “Do you know how big the real King K...
By Robert Kaplan
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Dr. Celeste Wallander discusses the Munich Security Conference, future of US-Russia relations
Podcast
Dr. Celeste Wallander sits down with Julianne Smith to reflect on the 2018 Munich Security Conference, and discuss what we can look forward to in terms of the future of US-Rus...
By Julianne Smith & Celeste Wallander
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Space Exploration Could Be the Key to America’s Renewal
History is replete with examples of great nations sliding slowly into decline. Six hundred years ago, Ming Dynasty China sent Admiral Zheng He on seven voyages throughout the ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Whatever Happened to Trump's Counterterrorism Strategy?
Last May, reports surfaced that the Trump administration had drafted a new counterterrorism strategy that would be released to the public. Although the strategy’s publication ...
By Stephen Tankel
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Is China seeking “quantum surprise?”Hype about artificial intelligence (AI) seems at or near a peak. A wave of hype is also emerging around quantum technologies, particularly quantum computing. When these two wa...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Dish | February 27, 2018
Welcome to The Dish! Curated by the CNAS Transatlantic Security Team, the Dish sends you the latest in transatlantic relations once a week. If this is your first time receivin...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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Podcast
Technology & National Security
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the United States Air ForceJoin Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, in a discussion with Capt Michael Kanaan about how artificial intelligen...
By Paul Scharre & Capt Michael Kanaan
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National Security Human Capital Program
DoD must consider non-traditional approaches to military serviceLast week the Pentagon began to follow through with Secretary Jim Mattis’ promise to increase military “lethality” by removing all service members who have been on “non-deploy...
By Andrew Swick & Emma Moore
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We Must Shock-Test the USS Gerald R. Ford
Earlier this month the U.S. Navy submitted a request to Secretary of Defense Mattis to postpone the planned shock testing of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the new Ford-class super c...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Handicapping the Navy’s Frigate Competition
The horses in a major new defense-acquisition program are approaching the starting gate, but it’s not too late to handicap the race and place bets on the eventual winner. The ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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5 Myths About Trump’s North Korea Policy
The Trump administration’s strategy for handling North Korea is bold and consistent under pressure. That has not stopped critics from distorting the record of America’s recent...
By Patrick M. Cronin
