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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
The U.S.-Chinese Trade War Just Entered Phase 2The Trump administration’s “phase one” trade deal with China may mark the end of the first chapter of the trade conflict between the United States and China, which saw Washing...
By Peter Harrell
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Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
The United States Needs a Strategy for Artificial IntelligenceIn the coming years, artificial intelligence will dramatically affect every aspect of human life. AI—the technologies that simulate intelligent behavior in machines—will chang...
By Martijn Rasser
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
America never committed to training Afghan forces. I know because I tried.I first met Maj. Sboor in 2009 as he waited to take over his own Afghan army battalion. We were working together as operations officers of partnered Afghan and U.S. infantry u...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Commentary
Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
America Desperately Needs AI Talent, Immigrants IncludedThe United States is engaged in a global technology competition in artificial intelligence. But while the US government has shown commitment to developing AI systems that will...
By Megan Lamberth
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Technology & National Security
Artificial Intelligence, Foresight, and the Offense-Defense BalanceThere is a growing perception that AI will be a transformative technology for international security. The current U.S. National Security Strategy names artificial intelligence...
By Ben Garfinkel & Allan Dafoe
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Add Economic Policy to Deterrence Planning
Commentary
American defense leaders have adapted over the years to shifts in technology and conflict — for example, accepting space and cyber as principal warfighting domains and integra...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Jordan Tama
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
The ACFT and the Problems with the Military's Cult of Physical FitnessA new hurdle for U.S. Army recruitment and retention is coming in the form of the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), scheduled to become the Army's physical test by October 2020...
By Emma Moore
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Why policymakers and universities need to collaborate for democracy
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Policymakers have singled out the higher education system as a critical area of vulnerability in American society. Christopher Wray memorably stated before the Senate Judiciar...
By Kristine Lee & Joshua Fitt
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Reporting from the front lines of the war against the Islamic State
Commentary
The rise of the Islamic State has haunted headlines throughout the world for the better part of a decade and has disrupted American plans to pivot to its intensifying competit...
By Nicholas Heras
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Commentary
Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
The China ChallengeThe United States and China are strategic competitors, and technology is at the center of this competition, critical to economic strength and national security. The United Sta...
By Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Paul Scharre
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Commentary
Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Beyond the Trade WarIn an essay for Foreign Affairs, Ely Ratner, Elizabeth Rosenberg, and Paul Scharre write that "the United States needs a fundamentally different approach to economic competiti...
By Ely Ratner, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Paul Scharre
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Commentary
Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Holding DHS Accountable for a Child’s Death in the Custody of Border PatrolProPublica published an extensive investigative report last week detailing the circumstances surrounding the death of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez. The teenag...
By Carrie Cordero, Heidi Li Feldman & Chimène Keitner
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Don’t Believe Netanyahu. Israel Doesn’t Need The Jordan Valley. Here’s Why.
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This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, concurrent with rising speculations that the Trump administration may suppor...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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NATO Is Struggling Under Trans-Atlantic Tensions
Commentary
NATO leaders gathered in London this week for a brief summit marking the alliance’s 70th anniversary. The trans-Atlantic community looked on with trepidation—not because there...
By Jim Townsend & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
The Many Questions Trump’s Pardons Raise About Civil-Military RelationsWhen President Donald Trump granted pardons to two Army officers—one convicted of war crimes, the other accused of them—and reversed the demotion of a Navy SEAL who was convic...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump has three options with North Korea to avoid a dangerous perfect storm in Asia
Commentary
In the next few weeks, the Korean Peninsula will face a watershed moment -- one which could upend the United States' alliances in northeast Asia and regional stability as a wh...
By Duyeon Kim
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Technology & National Security
Russia’s AI Quest is State-Driven — Even More than China’s. Can It Work?More than Western governments and even more than China’s, the Russian government is trying to position itself as a facilitator of innovation in artificial intelligence, the te...
By Samuel Bendett
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
The military needs immigrants. The Trump administration wants to keep them out.Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is now the latest in a line of immigrants challenged about whether it’s truly possible for them to serve the United States as patriots. Vindman, a r...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
Attrition and the Will to Fight a Great Power WarA nation’s capability and will to fight are interdependent critical factors in determining military operational success in conflict. The possibility of a kinetic war, however ...
By Emma Moore
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Upending the 5G Status Quo with Open ArchitectureThis article is adapted in part from written testimony the author submitted to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
By Martijn Rasser
