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The future of war will be fought by machines, but will humans still be in charge?Drone swarms. Self-driving tanks. Autonomous sentry guns. Sometimes it seems like the future of warfare arrived on our doorstep overnight, and we’ve all been caught unprepared...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
The first drone warship just joined the Navy and now nearly every element of it is classifiedThe first warship to traverse open waters without a single crew member recently joined the U.S. Navy's fleet after eight years of development and testing. And now nearly every...
By Paul Scharre
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Don't Let Up on North Korea Now
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may or may not be right in thinking that its “maximum pressure” campaign has brought North Korea to the bargaining table. Wha...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Congress should kickstart the response to virtual currencies
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Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are no longer just a technological novelty or a speculative bubble. They are affecting U.S. national security. To face their potential thr...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Edoardo Saravalle
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Mike Pompeo Needs to Clean Up After Rex Tillerson
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Incoming Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will inherit a State Department at a genuine inflection point. Devalued by the White House they serve, and feeling demoralized and bere...
By Richard Fontaine
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Technology & National Security
China’s AI talent ‘arms race’Perhaps, the real ‘arms race’ in artificial intelligence (AI) is not military competition but the battle for talent. Since the vast majority of the world’s top AI experts rema...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
The promise and peril of military applications of artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment in the national security space. While the public may still equate the notion of artificial intelligence in the military context...
By Michael Horowitz
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Technology & National Security
The Pursuit of AI Is More Than an Arms RaceAre the U.S., China, and Russia recklessly undertaking an “AI arms race”? Clearly, there is military competition among these great powers to advance a range of applications of...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
A new U.S. policy makes it (somewhat) easier to export dronesThe Trump administration just announced a new drone export policy designed to make it easier for U.S. companies to export drones, including armed drones. Given concerns about ...
By Michael Horowitz & Joshua Schwartz
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Will a Centralized Environmental Policy Speed Up the Greening of Chinese Society?
Commentary
As part of the same 13th National People’s Congress that abolished his term limits, Chinese President Xi Jinping oversaw a significant Cabinet reshuffle earlier this month. Th...
By Neil Bhatiya
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U.S. policy on North Korea entering unknown territory
The secret early April visit to Pyongyang by Mike Pompeo, the CIA Director and Secretary of State nominee, suggests that the unprecedented summit between President Trump and N...
By Richard Fontaine
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How to Make the U.S. Navy Great Again
ALONE AMONG the services, the Navy is always deployed. In wartime, all of the services deploy. In peacetime, the Army and Air Force train and exercise but do not deploy persis...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
China’s Strategic Ambiguity and Shifting Approach to Lethal Autonomous Weapons SystemsOn April 13, China’s delegation to United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systemsannounced the “desire to negotiate and conclude” a new prot...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Operational-Level Strikes Finally Enforce Obama’s Red Line
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By all accounts, Friday night’s strikes against the Assad regime’s chemical-weapons facilities were successful — they reduced their targets to rubble, and there were no report...
By Lauren Fish
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An Obama alumna analyzes the Syria strikes
Michèle Flournoy — former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy under President Obama, co-founder and managing director of WestExec Advisors, and former CEO of the Center for ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Trump Was Right to Hit Syria. But He Should Stop There.
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Thank goodness: President Donald Trump’s decision to launch limited missile strikes against chemical weapons facilities in Syria was an appropriate use of force—and a relief a...
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Technology & National Security
How network tools can improve base securityIn 2011, the simple exploitation of an existing data set could have prevented a near disaster in northern Afghanistan. Then, an entire operations center watched as the feed fr...
By Kara Frederick
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Will China’s New Trade/Debt Diplomacy Strategy Reshape The World?
The nationalistic China Dream represents the ambitious choreography of the Chinese Communist Party. Sino-centrism is apparent in the original formulation of “One Belt, One Roa...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Here’s What the Senate Should Ask Mike Pompeo
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The U.S. Senate’s consideration of CIA Director Mike Pompeo for confirmation as secretary of state is a critical inflection point for U.S. foreign policy. Some consider Pompeo...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Technology & National Security
Human judgment and lethal decision-making in warFor the fifth year in a row, government delegates meet at the United Nationsin Geneva to discuss autonomous weapons. Meanwhile, the technology that enables greater autonomy in...
By Paul Scharre
