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Inside the Biden administration as Afghanistan collapses
In The News
Lisa Curtis, a former senior NSC official who sat alongside Khalilzad during the Trump administration's negotiations with the Taliban, called on the Biden administration to "e...
By Lisa Curtis
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Speed of Taliban Advance Surprises Biden Administration, Dismays U.S. Allies
When President Biden this spring announced the decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, his administration expected the Afghan military to defend key cities and perh...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden on Afghanistan: Not my problem
In The News
As the Taliban blitz across Afghanistan and U.S. officials scramble to assess just how quickly the government in Kabul could fall, President Joe Biden is recalibrating his mes...
By Lisa Curtis
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Taliban Advances in Afghanistan Could Bring Political Peril for Biden
In The News
When President Biden announced his plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the politics seemed relatively simple: Many polls showed that Americans supported ending the ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Report: China Is Hacking Russia, Too
Much has been made about the emerging relationship between China and Russia, two countries that the National Defense Strategy recognizes as near-peer competitors to the United...
By Samuel Bendett
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It’s unforgivable to hold the Olympics in Beijing
In The News
It was a forgivable mistake to award an Olympics to Beijing in 2008. It’s unforgivable to hold one there now. If you want a world pocked by concentration camps, in which Xi Ji...
By David Feith
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Immigration Defines Homeland Security Chief as He Thinks Bigger
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Alejandro Mayorkas leads a sprawling department tasked with keeping the U.S. safe from cyberattacks, domestic terrorism, natural disasters, and other looming threats. But crit...
By Carrie Cordero
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Europe was the world’s great tech enforcer. Not anymore.
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When it comes to taking on Big Tech, there are new sheriffs in town: Beijing and Washington. From enacting the world’s strictest privacy law to placing guardrails against the ...
By Martijn Rasser
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The End of Exorbitant Privilege: Inflation, the Global Dollar and What Comes Next
This year has been rife with anxiety about inflation. Economist Lawrence Summers sent up an early warning flare in March, speculating that debt-financed government coronavirus...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Should Chinese Bitcoin miners move to the world and the United States should welcome it with open arms?
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Since May this year, the Chinese government has severely cracked down on Bitcoin trading and mining, causing Bitcoin miners to have to look elsewhere. Including the states of ...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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China reportedly converted civilian ferries for amphibious assault operations
China has converted civilian ferries for use in military amphibious operations, potentially enabling the country to significantly surge its amphibious assault capabilities in ...
By Tom Shugart
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Bionic arms and blue-eyed bots: How Russia aims to nurture a tech hub in its Far East
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To see Russia’s ambitions for its own version of Silicon Valley, head about 5,600 miles east of Moscow, snake through Vladivostok’s hills and then cross a bridge from the main...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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As Biden Prepares to Finally Leave, Iraq Faces a New 'Existential Crisis'
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The headlines coming out of U.S. President Joe Biden’s meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi last week were about the largely symbolic decision to end America’s...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Heavy-lifting Russian drones could resupply soldiers on future battlefields
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Rostec, the massive Russian defense corporation, announced at the annual MAKS-2021 arms show in late July that it wants to make a better fleet of cargo drones, including one c...
By Samuel Bendett
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Probing the Fragility of JADC2
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Earlier this year, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signed off on the U.S. Defense Department’s first-ever strategy for Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2, giving hi...
By Chris Dougherty
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The OG wolf warrior lands in DC
The Department of Homeland Security is in need of “substantial updates” to maximize its strengths and improve its ability to adapt to threats, according to a new report publis...
By Carrie Cordero & Katie Galgano
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A New Tunnel Is Spotted At A Chinese Nuclear Test Site
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China appears to be expanding its sprawling nuclear weapons testing complex in the nation's western desert. Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR shows a possible new ...
By Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, Jr. (Ret.)
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Why does the Federal Reserve need a digital currency?
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Digital money is nothing new—debit and credit cards have been with us for years. What’s changed is its pervasiveness. With fewer people carrying paper money, and with some pla...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Fed up with the U.S., Ukraine cuts deals with China and shuts up about the Uyghurs
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Frustrated with the U.S., Ukraine is cutting deals with a rival superpower, inviting China to build infrastructure while holding back criticism of Beijing's human rights recor...
By Jim Townsend
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Why Joe Biden is ending America’s combat mission in Iraq
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When the first American bombs began falling on Iraq on March 19th 2003, President George W. Bush predicted a hard slog. “A campaign on the harsh terrain of a nation as large a...
By Becca Wasser
