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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
New national security adviser faces personality test with Trump’s inner circleInternal debates during President Donald Trump’s first two and a half years in office have been marked by acrimony, tension and high-stakes negotiations. So perhaps it was no ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Robert O’Brien ‘Looks the Part,’ but Has Spent Little Time Playing It
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Even his many critics conceded that the former national security adviser John R. Bolton brought useful credentials to the job: decades of foreign policy experience and a keen ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Trump Picks Low-Key Operative as National Security AdvisorU.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday named Robert O’Brien, his envoy for hostage affairs, to replace John Bolton as his fourth national security advisor, elevating a relat...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump Taps Hostage Negotiator O'Brien for National Security Adviser
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday on Twitter that Robert C. O’Brien will be the successor to John Bolton as national security adviser. Trump wrote, "I am please...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Thespian, statesman and strongman: Policy pundits deconstruct Modi's popularity
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With over 50,000 Indian Americans from all across the country registering to attend the ‘Howdy, Modi!’ rally on Sept. 22 in Houston, starring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and...
By Richard Fontaine
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A coalition of the few: U.S. and Saudi Arabia stand alone against Iran
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The United States and Saudi Arabia lack virtually any allies as they consider how to respond to this weekend's attacks on Saudi oil refineries, raising doubts about whether th...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Syrian gov. threatens US-backed SDF, calls them 'terrorists’
The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Sunday described the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as “separatist terrorist” forces and asserted Damascus is determined “to reclaim every inch ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Netanyahu makes last-minute push at eleventh hour of election race
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is at a tight race to win the relection of the general poll which will be held on 17 September, relying as usual on electoral pledge...
By Nicholas Heras
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Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Mike Pompeo Is Bigger Than the Pentagon — For NowIn the nine months since Jim Mattis resigned as defense secretary, one man has become the public leader of President Trump’s national security policy: Secretary of State Mike ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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US Navy’s improved littoral combat warships in Asia to be armed with radar-evading precision missiles
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The US Navy’s once-beleaguered class of littoral combat ships (LCS) are back on an improved standing after major reforms, and military analysts say such warships – now to be a...
By Eric Sayers
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Middle East analyst Ilan Goldenberg offers opinions on Israel
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Ilan Goldenberg is hoping to bring back insight about Israel’s recent military success countering Iran, to delve into the Palestinian conflict and to get a pulse of the nation...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Coalition airstrikes soared even as US, Taliban talked peaceAs U.S. and Taliban officials talked peace, the U.S. military was accelerating airstrikes in Afghanistan, with the biggest monthly tally of the year carried out in August as t...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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In The News
Defense / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Bolton departure removes foreign policy irritant for Trump, strengthens PompeoThe abrupt firing or resignation on Tuesday (Sept 10) - depending on who you believe - of the United States' famously mustachioed and notoriously hawkish National Security Adv...
By Carrie Cordero & Neil Bhatiya
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In The News
Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
John Bolton wore out his welcome at Trump’s White HouseJohn Bolton was seen as an odd choice when Donald Trump chose the foreign policy hawk to succeed HR McMaster as the White House national security adviser in March 2018.Aside f...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
What the Army and Navy Can Learn From the Air Force’s Female SecretariesThe Air Force may soon welcome its third consecutive female secretary at a time when the nation has yet to see a woman as Army or Navy secretary or as secretary of defense. Th...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Defense / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump suggests he might soften Iran sanctions, day after firing hard-liner BoltonPresident Trump opened the door on Wednesday to lifting some sanctions on Iran in an effort to set up a meeting with that country’s leaders, a softening of his “maximum pressu...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Defense / Middle East Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
‘Severe Instability:’ Trump Boots Bolton, Third National Security AdvisorPresident Donald Trump today fired John Bolton, the fire-eating National Security Advisor who pressed for conflict with Iran and many other places. The next advisor, who Trump...
By Carrie Cordero
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In The News
Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Crude moves lower as Bolton firing opens slim possibility of sanctions reliefCrude futures settled lower Tuesday after US President Donald Trump said he fired National Security Advisor John Bolton, opening the possibility that sanctions on Iran might b...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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In The News
Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Will Bolton’s Ouster Lead to Changes In Trump Foreign Policy?This afternoon President Donald Trump announced the dismissal of his third national security advisor, former ambassador John Bolton. “I informed John Bolton that his services...
By Nicholas Heras
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National Security Human Capital Program
2020 Candidates With Military Experience Struggle to Break ThroughThree Democratic 2020 candidates could boast of military service in America’s longest-running wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But that experience is doing nothing for them in th...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
