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Goldfein Says 2021 Budget Buys Connectivity by Accepting Capacity Risk
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The Air Force budget about to go to Congress will create some “real-time, near-term risk” in the service’s ability to conduct a war with a peer adversary, but that risk pays f...
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Syria revives Soviet-inspired laws to slow economic meltdown, save currency
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Lebanon’s financial collapse is having repercussions beyond its borders, as Syrian President Bashar Assad revives Soviet-inspired laws to halt the meltdown of the Syrian econo...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Vital Signs 2020: Industrial Base Could Struggle to Surge Production in Wartime
The U.S. industrial base would be challenged to ramp up production to meet wartime requirements in the event of a protracted great power conflict, analysts and Pentagon offici...
By Susanna V. Blume
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What Kushner's canceled trip to Israel might mean
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The decision of Jared Kushner to cancel the peace team's visit to Israel, citing weather conditions and delayed flight, left experts in Washington and Jerusalem confused. It i...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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National Security Human Capital Program
Vital Signs 2020: Defense Sector Straining to Attract STEM TalentFor years, experts and military officials have been sounding the alarm across the defense industry: More STEM — or science, technology, engineering and mathematics &mdas...
By Emma Moore
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Prospective buyers for Russian S-400s proliferate as U.S. fails to sanction Turkey
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Turkey appears adamant that it will activate its Russian-supplied S-400 missile systems in April. Russian media reported on Monday that 120 surface-to-air missiles f...
By Peter Harrell
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How Boris Johnson’s confused handling of the Iran crisis highlights Britain’s absent foreign policy
The problem with Boris Johnson, one senior official who worked closely with him at the foreign office once told me, is that he is “very enthusiastic about what’s in front of h...
By Carisa Nietsche
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11 US troops were injured in Iran’s attack. It shows how close we came to war.
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Last week, Iran attacked two US military sites in Iraq. Now, a week later, one thing has become unmistakably clear: The US and Iran only barely avoided a potentially devastati...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump has 'emboldened' and 'enabled' authoritarians like Putin as they seek to become presidents for life
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During his time in the White House, President Donald Trump has delivered harsher criticism of the media, the judiciary, congressional lawmakers, and in some cases even members...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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US Treasury imposes sanctions on N. Korean company and China-based lodging facility
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On Jan. 14, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a North Korean company and a China-based lodging facility because of its connection to North Koreans working overse...
By Neil Bhatiya
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CNAS Launches “America Competes 2020”The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today launched “America Competes 2020,” a Center-wide initiative to renew American competitiveness at home and abroad. Amid incre...
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‘Russia’s Political Transition Has Arrived Ahead of Schedule’
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Russian President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly began the country’s political transition Wednesday with a constitutional shake-up and the naming of a new prime minister, paving ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Crude oil futures higher on US-China trade deal optimism
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Crude oil futures were higher during mid-morning trade in Asia Tuesday on market optimism ahead of the US-China phase one trade deal signing this week. However, anticipation o...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Nervous U.S. Allies Brace for Iran FalloutCaught off guard by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to order the killing of the most powerful Iranian general, the United States’ longtime Gulf and European allies are ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Rachel Rizzo
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US to Fix, Not Scrap Open Skies Treaty
Washington residents were startled in April 2017 to see a low-flying aircraft transit directly through the normally restricted airspace at the center of the U.S. capital, with...
By Jim Townsend
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Turkey weighs challenges, benefits of NATO membership
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Early in December, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on NATO allies to brand the Kurdish militias who fought against Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria as terrorists. T...
By Jim Townsend
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US, Chinese officials in talks on halting imports of Iranian crude
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US officials are working behind the scenes to get Chinese independent refiners to stop importing roughly 200,000 b/d of crude oil and condensate from Iran, in violation of US ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Iran to fund cyber attacks with cryptocurrency
IRAN’S cyberspies will use cryptocurrency to fund information warfare against the West, warns an ex-CIA officer. US cryptocurrency expert Yaya Fanusie says that it is likely T...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Iran avoids full-blown war with US but is caught in new crisis
The Iranian leadership, rattled by the death of a top general in an US drone attack, hit at US forces in Iraq with missile strikes designed to save face at home but not sparki...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Trump administration vacancies pose risk to national security during Iran escalation, experts saySpeaking from the White House this week amid stoked tensions with Iran, President Trump was flanked by nearly a dozen men involved in our nation’s defense — a move meant to co...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
