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Biden wants ‘calm’ in the Mideast. So much for peace.
The Biden administration would like Israelis and Palestinians to “calm” down. Ideally, a “sustainable calm” that comes because the two sides “deescalate tensions” and bring a ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Hackers Next Door
When Lazarus, the notorious North Korean hacker group, needs help, it knows where to turn. Whether it wants to find a place to station hackers, hire money launderers to funnel...
By Jason Bartlett
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Violence Shakes Trump’s Boast of ‘New Middle East’
It was, President Donald J. Trump proclaimed in September, “the dawn of a new Middle East.” Speaking at the White House, Mr. Trump was announcing new diplomatic accords betwee...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Many served, some died: Nebraskans look back on the Afghanistan War
The long-awaited, long-delayed final pullout of U.S. and NATO forces after 20 years of war in Afghanistan has finally begun. President Joe Biden set a deadline of Sept. 11 for...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Spy Agencies Seek New Afghan Allies as U.S. Withdraws
KABUL, Afghanistan — Western spy agencies are evaluating and courting regional leaders outside the Afghan government who might be able to provide intelligence about terrorist ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Marise Payne and Antony Blinken call for ‘real transparency’ from China on Covid origins
Foreign Minister Marise Payne and US secretary of state Antony Blinken have called for greater transparency from China over the origins of SARSCov2, amid growing interest in t...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Gaza doom loop
Dozens have already died in the fighting between Israel and Hamas, and more will perish if the fighting continues to escalate. But there is little chance that the root cause o...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Red Cross Calls for More Limits on Autonomous Weapons
The International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for new international rules on how governments use autonomous weapons, warning that such weapons will pose new challeng...
By Paul Scharre
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Amid warnings of a 'full scale war,' Biden administration dispatches envoy to Middle East
The Biden administration dispatched a top State Department diplomat to the Middle East "immediately" to try to de-escalate the deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas, Secret...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Space Force Aims to Take on an Air Force Surveillance Mission
A few years ago, the Air Force began looking at ways to replace its JSTARS surveillance aircraft, to ensure it could keep providing a clear picture of ground movement when the...
By Sarah Mineiro
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Biden struggles to respond to Israeli-Palestinian violence after Trump refused to criticize Israel
After four years of President Trump’s refusal to condemn or even mildly critique any Israeli act, the Biden administration faces soaring Israeli-Palestinian violence equipped ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Beijing Tries to Put Its Imprint on Blockchain
China, home of the Great Firewall, is trying to bring order to a scrappy corner of cyberspace—and in the process put its mark on the next-generation internet. A Beijing-backed...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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What the Latest Fighting Between Israelis and Palestinians Means for Biden
To understand what the latest fighting means for Washington, Foreign Policy spoke to Ilan Goldenberg, who served as a senior State Department official in the Obama administrat...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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'Disturbing and reckless': Retired brass spread election lie in attack on Biden, Democrats
A day after 124 retired generals and admirals released a letter spreading the lie that President Joe Biden stole the election, current and former military officers are speakin...
By Jim Golby
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Biden's new CISA director will confront a host of complex challenges
The next leader of the nation's top cybersecurity agency will inherit a bevy of crises. President Biden has nominated Jen Easterly, the head of Morgan Stanley’s global fusion ...
By John Costello
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‘We cut too deep’: Air Force reinstates hundreds of ROTC cadets after dismissals spark backlash
The Air Force reversed its decision to dismiss hundreds of reserve officer training cadets and restored nearly 130 scholarships, officials said, after a lobbying effort assail...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Licensed to Kill: How Russia Uses Israeli Drones to Bomb Civilians in Syria
When Israeli-licensed military drones first took off from Syrian air force bases to stalk opponents of Bashar Assad’s regime, shortly after Russia’s 2015 intervention, they we...
By Samuel Bendett
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"What degree of human involvement should there be in the use of force?"
In an interview with the Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight, Paul Scharre offers insights on weapon autonomy and the human role in future warfighting. After multiple t...
By Paul Scharre
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Strongmen who got cozy with Trump get the cold shoulder from Biden
The Biden administration has zinged Russia and China over human rights and alleged thuggery against their neighbors, cut off some arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and stiff-armed T...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
Once a month, senior executives of Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. fly to Beijing for a flurry of meetings with China's top economic management bodies. They focus on the compa...
By Martijn Rasser