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North Korea prepares for major party congress amid growing challenges
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will convene a rare congress of the ruling party in early January, where he will seek to rally public support and outline new long-term economi...
By Duyeon Kim
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Transition mistrust: Roadblocks on troops, cyber hack and budgets
President-elect Joe Biden's explosive allegation this week that the outgoing Trump administration is throwing up "roadblocks" on key national security matters was a low-point ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Joe Purcell and Timothy McBride Join CNAS Board of Advisors
Washington, December 22, 2020—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today that Joe Purcell, Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley’s Financial Sponsors Group, and T...
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Biden’s test: Rebuilding the Iran nuclear deal Trump tore apart
President-elect Joe Biden has made no secret that one of his earliest foreign policy objectives will be for the U.S. to rejoin the landmark Iran nuclear deal that the Trump ad...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Biden's options for Russian hacking punishment: sanctions, cyber retaliation
President-elect Joe Biden’s team will consider several options to punish Russia for its suspected role in the unprecedented hacking of U.S. government agencies and companies o...
By Edward Fishman
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Trump is just itching to declare martial law
Some dangerous ideas about the role of the U.S. military in American civil society are finding an audience in President Donald Trump. Both the New York Times and Axios report ...
By Jim Golby
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Joe Biden’s 5 Tech Priorities
President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team describes its animating philosophy as “build back better.” It’s both a nod to the Trump administration’s penchant for paring back t...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Row explodes between Pentagon, Biden transition team
The U.S. acting defense secretary has canceled planned meetings between Defense Department officials and the Biden transition team. It’s a move the department is categorizing ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Russia is winning the Arctic long game
Time for a T-12 club of tech-friendly democracies? Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security, thinks so. He told Global Translations that we are “probabl...
By Richard Fontaine
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An emerging new alliance of democracies
There may be new a kid on the bloc in 2021. This week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicated that he will travel next month to India with a grand project in mind. Fol...
By Rachel Rizzo
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CNAS Defense Program Announces Six New Adjunct Fellows
Washington, December 17, 2020—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce six new adjunct fellows to its Defense Program. Joining as Adjunct Senior Fe...
By Cole Stevens
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Massive hack of US government launches search for answers as Russia named top suspect
Days after several US agencies confirmed their networks were compromised in a massive data breach, federal officials are still struggling to understand the scope of the damage...
By Carrie Cordero
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Trump Could Torpedo a Bill to Boost Funding for AI
Over a tumultuous four years, the Trump administration has steadily emphasized the importance of artificial intelligence to American competitiveness. Now President Trump must ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Democracies need to re-learn the art of deception
Five hundred dummies descended on the French coast on the night of June 5th 1944. The crack of gunfire sounded from each one, courtesy of a small pyrotechnic device. As they t...
By Jennifer McArdle
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As China Leads Quantum Computing Race, U.S. Spies Plan for a World with Fewer Secrets
Back in 1994, when quantum computers existed only as so much chalk on a blackboard, mathematician Peter Shor invented what may soon prove to be their killer app. Shor trained ...
By Paul Scharre
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‘This can’t be my Army’ — The Fort Hood report is a long-overdue wake-up call for Army leaders
When Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston finished reading an independent committee’s review of Fort Hood — every single line of the 152 pages, he says — he flipped back to ...
By Emma Moore
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Can China Become Self-reliant in Semiconductors?
The U.S. added China's biggest computer chipmaker SMIC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies last week, a move that will further widen the gap between China’s c...
By Martijn Rasser
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Nato has joined US in regarding China as a ‘risk’ to security, US envoy says
America and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization arrived “late to the game” but now see clearly that China is a “risk”, Kay Bailey Hutchison, the US envoy to N...
By Carisa Nietsche
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Christian Beckner, Josh Campbell and Alexis Collins Join CNAS as Adjunct Senior Fellows
Washington, December 10, 2020—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Christian Beckner, Senior Director of Retail Technology and Cybersecuri...
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U.S. Policy on China May Move From ‘America First’ to America & Co.
In tech, Metcalfe’s Law posits that a network becomes more useful in proportion to the number of its users, squared. That means big networks are much more valuable than small ...
By Martijn Rasser