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Researchers Find Transgender Veterans Are as Healthy as Their Cisgender Peers
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“The navy was something I always wanted to do, ever since I saw the Blue Angels as a little kid,” Chief Petty Officer Sarah Sardinha tells me. “I knew I wanted to work on figh...
By Kayla M. Williams
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South China Sea militarization part of larger Chinese challenge to U.S. power
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Tensions are rising in the South China Sea as China builds up military resources in contested waters and the United States Navy asserts its presence in the region, but experts...
By Dr. Daniel Kliman
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China: We Might Help Assad With the War in Syria
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China has long avoided entangling itself in direct military conflict abroad. But the Chinese ambassador to Syria last week suggested that China is considering doing just that ...
By Abigail Grace
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Why AI researchers shouldn’t turn their backs on the military
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More than 2,400 AI researchers recently signed a pledge promising not to build so-called autonomous weapons—systems that would decide on their own whom to kill. This follows G...
By Paul Scharre
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Hackers Already Attacking Midterm Elections, Raising U.S. Alarms
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The U.S. midterm elections are at increasing risk of interference by foreign adversaries led by Russia, and cybersecurity experts warn the Trump administration isn’t adequatel...
By Kara Frederick & Dr. Michael Sulmeyer
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Why US talks with the Taliban are suddenly on the table
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The United States has a lot invested in Afghanistan: a longer war than both world wars and its intervention in Vietnam combined, more than $2 trillion, and more than 2,370 ser...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump administration’s use of sanctions draws concern
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February was a typically busy month for U.S. officials who announce government sanctions. One package of measures issued by the Treasury Department targeted North Korea, with ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Inside the Secret Taliban Talks to End America’s Longest War
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If the United States’ longest foreign war actually draws to a negotiated close, a significant amount of credit will go to a former U.S. Army colonel and a former senior U.S. d...
By Chris Kolenda
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Book Review Roundtable: America’s Hot and Cold Relationship with Its Counterterrorism Partners
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With many Americans — led by the current occupant of the White House — questioning the value of global partnerships and talking as though the United States would b...
By Stephen Tankel
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Book review: ‘Army of None: Autonomous weapons and the future of war’
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Paul Scharre’s new book on autonomous weapons begins with an account of an incident he experienced while on patrol as a US Army Ranger in Afghanistan in 2004. A young girl of...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump's comments on meddling put cybersecurity back in spotlight
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As President Donald Trump stood next to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and called the Russian president's denials of Russian meddling "extremely strong," he snapped back into focu...
By Dr. Michael Sulmeyer
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Leading AI researchers vow to not develop autonomous weapons
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In a letter published online, 2,400 researchers in 36 countries joined 160 organizations in calling for a global ban on lethal autonomous weapons. Such systems pose a grave th...
By Paul Scharre
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As Russians describe ‘verbal agreements’ at summit, U.S. officials scramble for clarity
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Two days after President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials offered a string of assertions about what the two leaders had achieved. “Impo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Higher NATO Defense Spending May Not Help U.S. Contractors
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President Donald Trump emerged from the NATO summit in Brussels touting a renewed commitment from members to increase their defense spending, but U.S. defense firms might want...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Congress Moves to Force Trump to Come Clean on North Korea Talks
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President Donald Trump is “gaslighting” the planet about North Korea’s nukes, according to a well-connected analyst. So Congress is moving on multiple fronts to force the Whit...
By Abigail Grace
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After being called ‘aggressive’ by Trump, Montenegro insists it’s a friend to America
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Earlier this week, President Trump identified a seemingly unlikely threat to world security: Montenegro, a tiny Balkan country of just over 600,000 people. Montenegrins, Trump...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Syrian army raises flag above city considered as birthplace of uprising against Assad
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Syrian government forces hoisted their red, black and white flag as they took control of the southern city of Daraa on Thursday, quashing a rebellion that began there in 2011 ...
By Nicholas Heras
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What’s Missing From Kim Jong Un’s ‘Very Nice Note’ to Trump
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Donald Trump called it “a very nice note.” And it is super-nice! In the letter that the president published on Twitter on Thursday, Kim Jong Un refers to Trump as “Your Excell...
By Duyeon Kim
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The Energy 202: Trump slammed Merkel over a pipeline from Russia. But with Putin, he demurred.
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President Trump said a number of things at his press conference Monday alongside Russian leader Vladimir Putin that few thought a U.S. commander in chief would ever say. Trump...
By Edoardo Saravalle
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Back to 1648: The Treaty of Westphalia
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If the current global order is being upended, what will replace it? We are getting a clue in the actions of western leaders and their allies, whose posture suggests a turn bac...
By Richard Fontaine
