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Foreign powers test US defenses amid coronavirus pandemic
U.S. adversaries are probing America's defenses as the world is preoccupied with the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. In the past two weeks, Russia, China, Iran and No...
By Susanna V. Blume
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New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet
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The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest test of political leadership the world has ever witnessed. Every leader on the planet is facing the same potential threat. Every le...
By Van Jackson
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In The News
Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Gathering intelligence during a pandemicThe Intelligence Community by many accounts was on to the possibility of a pandemic like this one for a long time. Well, now that it’s here, what effect might the pandemic be ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Trudeau announces $2.45B in aid for oil and gas sector, $1.7B to clean up wells
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced new aid for Canada’s battered oil and gas sector, responding to pleas for help as commodity prices fell to record lows and demand d...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Technology & National Security
Algorithmic Warfare: Hackers Take Advantage of Mass TeleworkingAdversaries are likely to exploit the widespread movement toward teleworking by government workers and federal contractors during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts warn. Essye M...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
Military ‘Burn Pits’ Trashed These Veterans’ Lungs. Then the Virus Hit.When she contracted the novel coronavirus, Elana Duffy remembered the acrid smoke she breathed in from her Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, where jet fuel burned everything...
By Emma Moore
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In The News
Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Peace Storm: Turkey tries to turn the tables in LibyaAs conflict flares up once again in Libya, Turkey is again trying to shape the outcome through its military intervention. However, it is unclear whether either side in the Lib...
By Samuel Bendett
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Pentagon Getting a Push to Shift Resources to Asia
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A push to shift U.S. military resources to Asia to counter Chinese influence is drawing new support in Congress, where a leading lawmaker wants to compel the Pentagon to inves...
By Eric Sayers
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Trump’s critique of WHO may be a diversion, but it resonates beyond the White House
President Trump is not happy with the World Health Organization. He is not the only one. On Tuesday, in the middle of a global pandemic, Trump announced that he is freezing f...
By Kristine Lee
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China Wins: Why Trump's WHO Funding Cut is a Gift to Beijing
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When he accused the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday of going soft on China over the COVID-19 pandemic and suspended U.S. payments to the agency, President Donald Tr...
By Kristine Lee
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
Military branches were set to cut nearly 18,000 medical workers. Coronavirus brought that to a halt.The agencies that oversee the health of U.S. military personnel and veterans were pushing ahead this spring with the biggest overhaul of their health systems in three decades....
By Kayla M. Williams
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Israel’s shadow campaign offers lessons for U.S. in standoff with Iran, report says
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Israel’s unacknowledged military campaign against Iranian targets in Syria could provide a model for the United States as it struggles to contain Tehran’s network of armed pro...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
The U.S. vs. China: Who Is Winning the Key Technology Battles?In a world where geopolitical power is increasingly linked to technological advancement, the U.S. has long led its rivals. American companies make some of the world’s fastest ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Turkey Is The Middle East's Newest Drone Super PowerKey point: Damascus’s forces lack the technology reliably to defeat attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles. Turkey might never develop its own stealth fighter, but the country ha...
By Samuel Bendett
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On China and the World Health Organisation, Donald Trump wants to have it both ways
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On 7 April, amid a global pandemic, Donald Trump returned to familiar territory: bashing China and an international institution. “The WHO really blew it,” the US president twe...
By Kristine Lee
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
America does not want China to dominate 5G mobile networksIn the 1990s America’s telecoms industry was split between two rival factions. On one side were the “bellheads”, named after the former telephone monopolist, Bell, and represe...
By Elsa B. Kania
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ROK-US defense cost-sharing talks remain at standstill
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The defense cost-sharing talks between Korea and the United States are still showing no signs of progress, raising concerns that the furlough of Korean employees of the U.S. F...
By Van Jackson
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Technology & National Security
YouTube profits from videos promoting unproven Covid-19 treatmentsYouTube is profiting from videos promoting unproven coronavirus treatments, a new report has found, as the company struggles to crack down on misinformation. The Google-owned ...
By Megan Lamberth
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
As Trump faces heat on coronavirus response, Republicans try to elevate China’s role in domestic political debateFor months, national Republicans hoping to wrest back control of the House this fall have targeted first-term Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), hitting him on his vote to impeach Pre...
By Richard Fontaine
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Technology & National Security
JAIC readies ‘AI champions’ as commission recommends doubling R&D spendingFor the United States to stay on top of the global arms race for artificial intelligence, a commission stood up by Congress recommended a two-fold path: Collaborate with its c...
By Robert O. Work
