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Why You Shouldn't Fear 'Slaughterbots'Killer drones in the hands of terrorists massacring innocents. Robotic weapons of mass destruction breeding chaos and fear. A video created by advocates of a ban on autonomous...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump's NSS takes a harder line on China
If translated into sustained action, the Trump administration's National Security Strategy will mark a departure from decades of U.S. policy, reframing China as a great power ...
By Daniel Kliman
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Project Maven brings AI to the fight against ISISMaven is designed to be that pilot project, that pathfinder, that spark that kindles the flame front of artificial intelligence across the rest of the [Defense] Department. - ...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Podcast
National Security Human Capital Program
CNAS experts break down Trump's new National Security StrategyCNAS Deputy Director of Studies dives into the Trump administration's National Security Strategy, talking strategy development, messaging, and implementation with CNAS experts...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Jerry Hendrix, Ilan Goldenberg & Daniel Kliman
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Podcast
National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Women in National Security: Amanda SloatAmanda Sloat of the Brookings Institution shares what it's like working as a woman in national security....
By Dr. Amanda Sloat
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In a Chess Game with Putin, the Polish City of Gdansk Is Our Queen
Commentary
ladimir Putin is playing a vast chess game with NATO, and his next move is to invade the Baltic nations. When this happens, the United States will need to move armored forces ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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To Pluck a Brown Feathered Goose: On Being a Woman of Color in National Security
As a field that centers on defense and foreign relations, national security has had a long history of being predominantly male. Recent public debate on women and national secu...
By Brittney Washington & Jeesue Lee
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Trump Should Mind the Gaps in His National Security Strategy
Commentary
President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy has been published and the early returns are in. Perhaps as with all things Trumpian, reactions are strongly-held and all o...
By Richard Fontaine
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Policy Roundtable: What to Make of Trump’s National Security Strategy
Commentary
Every time an American president releases a new National Security Strategy, it provokes a round of commentary on the document itself as well as an additional round of hand-wri...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for the Department of Defense?
Commentary
What happens to the Defense Department when the federal government shuts down? I can shed some light on this; in October 2013, I was a DoD civilian charged with helping to ens...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Amanda Sloat on recent European travel, hot-button issues of 2018
Podcast
Dr. Amanda Sloat, Julie Smith, and Jim Townsend all recently visited different European cities, from Brussels to Munich to Berlin. The latest episode of Brussels Sprouts highl...
By Julianne Smith & Dr. Amanda Sloat
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Trump's National Security Strategy Is Dead on Arrival
Commentary
If a national security strategy is developed by well-meaning, capable advisers, who have little control over an undisciplined and unpredictable president, is it worth the pape...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump’s New National-Security Strategy Projects Confidence
Commentary
President Trump today unveiled his new National Security Strategy (NSS), exceeding the expectations of the national-security community by producing a remarkably coherent NSS w...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Commentary
Defense / Technology & National Security
Congress Mandates New DoD Study Central to Understanding TBITraumatic brain injury (TBI) is the signature wound of today's conflicts, affecting more than 370,000 service members, and emerging evidence suggests troops may be exposed to ...
By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre
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Give Bad Faith a Chance in North Korea
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said this week that the U.S. was “ready to talk” to North Korea. The White House and State Department walked back that statement, but Mr. Till...
By Peter Harrell
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China Mistakenly Challenges Andrew Jackson to a Duel
Commentary
The United States Navy will be making a port call in Taiwan in the near future. The only questions that remain are where, when, and how many ships of what type will drop ancho...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
A Rorschach Test for Civil-Military RelationsEarlier this week, I wrote in Slate about how America’s military leaders have seemingly improvised a new norm of civil-military relations in response to President Donald Trump...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump must stop Venezuela from sliding toward total dictatorship
The Trump administration’s sanctions on Venezuela have succeeded in creating a cash crunch in Caracas. But with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro getting close to defaulting...
By Peter Harrell
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The Human Factor in the “Unmanned” Systems of the People's Liberation ArmyEven as the character of conflict is transformed by the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) on the battlefield, the human factor is no less important in this m...
By Elsa B. Kania
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How Many Battles Can the Pentagon Fight in Washington at Once?
Commentary
Agenda SecDef relaunched earlier this year with advice for then-new Secretary James Mattis, warning against the demands of unreasonable expectations in order to focus on five ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Lauren Fish
