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To Strengthen Trump’s National Security Approach, Promote Human Rights
Commentary
In a series of tweets on New Year’s Eve, President Donald Trump expressed strong support for Iranians protesting against their autocratic regime. He added that the United Stat...
By Richard Fontaine & John Bellinger
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Bitcoin can help terrorists secretly fund their deadly attacks
One of the latest tools terrorists are using isn’t a new kind of bomb, gun, suicide vest or other device that can kill and maim. The tool is bitcoin, the virtual currency crea...
By Edoardo Saravalle & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Trump and His Strategy of Ambiguity
Commentary
President Donald Trump’s rhetoric has shocked the diplomatic world. His size-of-nuclear-button tweets, his observation that China had been caught “red-handed” giving illegal a...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Bringing the national security debate beyond Washington
Washingtonians who work on national security often pride themselves on how much they know about the world. Many of the nation’s top security experts speak foreign languages an...
By Julianne Smith
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Review: ‘The Road Not Taken’ in Vietnam
Commentary
Edward Lansdale (1908-87) was one of America’s most important military thinkers and practitioners, and yet he is barely known to the wider world. In “The Road Not Taken,” Max ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Countering Entropy in the New Year
Commentary
In a year-end summary, one of our nation’s major weekly news publications recently tweeted that one of its most-read articles featured former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbache...
By Jerry Hendrix
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From 'flags and footprints' to having a routine presence in space
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President Trump’s signing of Space Policy Directive 1 once again gives NASA a mission adjustment and beneficial goals. The directive recommits NASA to: “Lead an innovative and...
By Adam Routh
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US Alliances and Trump’s ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ Policy
Commentary
Any single year’s events can mask the true direction of longer-term trends. Time will tell, but I believe this is the case with respect to US policy toward the Asia-Pacific re...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The Pentagon is using AI to fight ISIS but it's not quite the 'Terminator'Conversations about the military use of artificial intelligence usually bring to mind the "Terminator" movies, where a super-intelligent AI turns evil and tries to destroy hum...
By Gregory C. Allen
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The Oil and Gas Sector Is Changing — and So Is Geopolitics
WINDFALLHow the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens American PowerBy Meghan L. O’Sullivan479 pp. Simon & Schuster. $29. Geopolitics is power played...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Expanding US-India Geoeconomic Cooperation Amid China’s Belt and Road Initiative
The United States and India have an opportunity to co-define and co-implement a geoeconomic vision for the Indo-Pacific, based on shared values of freedom and transparency. Ho...
By Daniel Kliman & Manpreet Singh Anand
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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
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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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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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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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
