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The Korean Peninsula’s Arms Race Heats Up
Tensions on the Korean peninsula rose on Wednesday as North Korea and South Korea conducted missile tests within hours of each other. As well as statements of military readine...
By Duyeon Kim
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China slams U.S.-led plan to give nuclear submarines to Australia
China slammed the new Indo-Pacific security alliance unveiled by the U.S., the U.K. and Australia on Wednesday, especially the plan to deliver nuclear-powered submarines to Ca...
By Van Jackson
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With foreign funds frozen, Afghan aid groups stuck in limbo
A month after the fall of Kabul, the world is still wrestling with how to help Afghanistan’s impoverished people without propping up their Taliban leaders — a question that gr...
By Lisa Curtis
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Technology & National Security
Zapad military drills showcase Russian unmanned robots’ battlefield breakthroughRussia has employed unmanned ground vehicles in combat formations for the first time, a significant step in the country’s quest to develop an effective all-robot military unit...
By Samuel Bendett
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National Security Human Capital Program
Furor builds over top general Milley's role in Trump's final daysGen. Mark A. Milley, the embattled chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would have several more medals to add to his uniform if the Pentagon gave them for dodging artillery ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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US builds bulwark against China with UK-Australia security pact
The US has launched a new trilateral security partnership with the UK and Australia that will enable Canberra to build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, a move that will ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trey Meeks Joins CNAS Defense Program as a Senior Adjunct Fellow
Washington, September 15, 2021—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to welcome Trey Meeks, Principal at The Asia Group, as an Adjunct Senior Fellow with it...
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Welcomes John “Jack” Shanahan to its Technology and National Security Program as an Adjunct Senior FellowWashington, September 14, 2021—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Lieutenant General (ret.) John “Jack” Shanahan has joined CNAS as an A...
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National Security Human Capital Program
‘We Never Got It. Not Even Close’: Afghanistan Veterans Reflect on 20 Years of WarThe last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan boarded a plane on Aug. 30, 2021. In the nearly two decades of war that preceded, more than 775,000 U.S. service members deployed to...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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CNAS Responds: American Security, Two Decades After 9/11
The exit from Afghanistan bookends two decades in which American security and foreign policy transformed both domestically and abroad. On the 20th anniversary of the September...
By Richard Fontaine, Carrie Cordero, Lisa Curtis, Paul Scharre, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Nathalie Grogan, Alex Zerden, Jim Townsend, Ilan Goldenberg, Jacob Stokes, Jason Bartlett, Col James Frey, Christian Beckner, Josh Campbell & Christopher D. Kolenda
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Trump wanted out of Afghanistan. Now he wants to bomb it.
Donald Trump spent years arguing that America’s “endless wars” were draining the country of resources and lives. But in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from ...
By Lisa Curtis
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In Afghan Withdrawal, a Biden Doctrine Surfaces
In the chaotic finale of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, a Biden Doctrine is emerging: a foreign policy that avoids the aggressive tactics of forever wars and nation bui...
By Lisa Curtis
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Bitcoin Won’t Save the Afghan People
Over the past few years, the residents of countries in financial distress have increasingly turned to cryptocurrency. In Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines and Venezuela, crypto ...
By Alex Zerden
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Inflation could spark new global financial crisis, says Russia’s central bank
“Against this global setting, the CBR [Russian central bank] did the right thing of getting ahead of inflation with hikes,” said Elina Ribakova.Read the full story and more fr...
By Elina Ribakova
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U.S. Wrestles With Taliban Sanctions as Afghan Crisis Looms
America’s war in Afghanistan is over, but the fight over the Taliban’s finances is only beginning. The fate of billions of dollars of international reserves and foreign aid re...
By Alex Zerden
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The U.S. ground war in Afghanistan is over. Now it’s the Navy’s turn.The American military’s involvement in Afghanistan could soon become largely the Navy’s responsibility, an ironic twist for a counterterrorism mission in a landlocked country....
By Becca Wasser
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Short on Money, Legal and Otherwise, the Taliban Face a CrisisAs Afghans pay surging prices for eggs and flour and stand in long lines at the bank, money changers like Enayatullah and his underground financial lifeline have found themsel...
By Alex Zerden
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China, Russia Look to Outflank U.S. in Afghanistan
As U.S. forces beat a hasty retreat from Afghanistan, surrendering the country to an uncertain future under the Taliban, U.S. President Joe Biden and his top national security...
By Lisa Curtis
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Technology & National Security
Russia wants to launch little drones off of other drones off of shipsRussia wants to replace the helicopter scouts on its existing ships with longer-range drones. Announced earlier this week by Russia’s Advanced Research Foundation (an analog t...
By Samuel Bendett
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U.S. presses Pakistan as Afghan crisis spirals, leaked docs show
The Biden administration is quietly pressing Pakistan to cooperate on fighting terrorist groups such as ISIS-K and Al Qaeda in the wake of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan....
By Lisa Curtis