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All the Bombs in the World Won't Solve the North Korea Crisis (It Will Only Make It Worse)
Commentary
In comments recently delivered at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Herbert Raymond “H.R.” McMaster reaffirmed the ...
By Nicholas Blanchette & Benjamin Rimland
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The critical human element in the machine age of warfareIn 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped to prevent the accidental outbreak of nuclear war by recognizing that a false alarm in Soviet early warning systems was not a real report of a...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Christian Hänel talks the importance of diversity in transatlantic relations
Podcast
Christian Hänel, of the Robert Bosch Foundation, chats with CNAS expert Julie Smith about why he was “positively surprised” by his first visit to Pittsburgh—as part of t...
By Julianne Smith & Christian Hänel
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CNAS Commentary: CFIUS Reform Gaining Momentum
Commentary
Washington, November 16 – With Congress considering legislation that would expand the mandate of the committee that reviews foreign investment in the U.S. – the Committee on F...
By Peter Harrell
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The 5 things we learned from Trump’s Asia trip
President Trump returned Tuesday night after 12 days in Asia. So what did we learn from his stops in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines? Here are five take...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Should we fear killer robots?Physicist Stephen Hawking recently warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence and "powerful autonomous weapons." Autonomous technology is racing forward, but internation...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Remarks by Paul Scharre to the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon SystemsGeneva, Switzerland As we have heard this week, artificial intelligence and autonomy are rapidly advancing. While no nation has said they will build autonomous weapons, the t...
By Paul Scharre
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Lethal Autonomous Weapons and Policy-Making Amid Disruptive Technological ChangeThis week, countries are meeting at the United Nations to discuss lethal autonomous weapons and the line between human and machine decision-making. One complicating factor in ...
By Paul Scharre
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
We’re Losing Our Chance to Regulate Killer RobotsScores of countries are gathering at the United Nations this week to discuss lethal autonomous weapon systems – essentially, robots that would pick their own targets. This mar...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Eric Schmidt Keynote Address at the Center for a New American Security Artificial Intelligence and Global Security SummitTranscript prepared by Gregory C. Allen and Anthony Cho. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Discussion starts at :30 of video. Paul Scharre: So thanks for joini...
By Paul Scharre, Anthony Cho, Gregory C. Allen & Eric Schmidt
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Podcast
Technology & National Security
Stephen Hawking, Artificial Intelligence, and the UN SummitThis week, countries discuss lethal autonomous weapons at the United Nations, while Stephen Hawking warns of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Paul Scharre, Director of ...
By Paul Scharre & Neal Urwitz
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Trump's Post-Pivot Strategy
Commentary
U.S. President Donald Trump’s five-nation tour of Asia in November 2017 marks the inception of America’s post-pivot strategy. Through summitry and speeches, Trump set forth h...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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The Quad: US and its allies want insurance against instability and coercion in Asia
If all goes according to plan, officials from the United States, Australia, Japan and India will sit down together on the margins of next week's East Asia Summit. The gatherin...
By Richard Fontaine
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Podcast
National Security Human Capital / National Security Law
Women in National Security: Julie Smith, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Kate KidderCNAS experts Kate Kidder, Julie Smith, and Loren DeJonge Schulman discuss why they launched the women in national security project, what they've learned, and their personal st...
By Julianne Smith, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Katherine Kidder
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The Lethal Autonomous Weapons Governmental Meeting (Part I: Coping with Rapid Technological Change)This week nations meet at the United Nations to discuss lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), including robotic weapons that might hunt for targets on their own. It has bee...
By Paul Scharre
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Why ditching the Iran nuclear deal would be bad for China, India and the rest of AsiaNow that US President Donald Trump has declared that Iran is not in compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the status of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action depends on...
By Neil Bhatiya
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The Sum of Their Fears: The MQ-25 Stingray
Commentary
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” sayeth the Bard in a line with ominous foreboding. Such potent can also be read into the decision that Northrop Grumman was drop...
By Jerry Hendrix
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U.S.-China Trade: A Balanced Approach
Executive Summary President Trump is right to want to get the U.S. economy growing again and help those left behind. And he is right that in the past decade China has taken ad...
By Anja Manuel
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In the Pentagon’s AT&L reorg, beware the Valley of Death
Commentary
The U.S. Department of Defense is in the process of reorganizing its acquisition enterprise, as directed by the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. Congress and the DoD i...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Emerging technology could make China the world’s next innovation superpowerDuring China’s 19th Party Congress in October, President Xi Jinping placed innovation at the center of China’s national strategy. His remarks called for building China into a ...
By Elsa B. Kania
