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Esper confirmed as new defense secretary, ending Pentagon leadership uncertainty
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The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Mark Esper to be the country’s 27th defense secretary, ending a wait of more than 200 days for a permanent Pentagon leader. Esper...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Technology & National Security
FaceApp: Age Your Photos — And Compromise Your Privacy?Have you used FaceApp? The hugely popular app that let’s you age your face? Made by Russian developers, members of Congress say the app could be a national security threat. Ca...
By Carrie Cordero
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Technology & National Security
Special Forces face down impacts of war on terrorThe Pentagon’s Special Operations Command — known as SOCOM — is looking into how brain trauma from the 17-year war on terror in the Middle East has impacted elite US troops. ...
By Paul Scharre
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Top US commander visits SDF leadership in Syria amid Turkish threats
A top US commander on Monday met with Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Mazlum Abdi to discuss developments in northeast Syria. Mustafa Bali, the head o...
By Nicholas Heras
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National Security Human Capital Program
Why leaving the military is harder for female vetsWhen she left the military in 2005, Jodie M. Grenier went from being on a team of intelligence analysts reporting to then-Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis, with a top security cle...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Who Lost Turkey?
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On July 4, 2003, U.S. paratroopers kicked down doors and raided a compound in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah. It was two months after the United States declared “Miss...
By Jim Townsend
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Army Readies Long-Range Missile Tests — Post INF
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The Army has moved flight testing of its new long-range missile from this summer until after the drop-dead date for US withdrawal from the INF treaty with Russia. That will me...
By Eric Sayers
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
‘We are being outspent. We are being outpaced’: Is America ceding the future of AI to China?The last time a rival power tried to out-innovate the U.S. and marshaled a whole-of-government approach to doing it, the Soviet Union startled Americans by deploying the first...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Lawmakers say Trump is locked into Turkey sanctions
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After days of silence about whether Turkey will be punished for accepting a Russian-made air defense system, U.S. President Donald Trump reluctantly seemed to agree Turkey wil...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Trump’s defense pick calls for US-led pact to deter Iran
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US President Donald Trump’s pick to succeed Jim Mattis as the Pentagon’s permanent chief insisted Tuesday that passive patrols of the Gulf were deterring Iranian attacks on ta...
By Jim Townsend
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Inside China’s top ‘party schools’: Plenty of Communist doctrine on tap
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The lecturer stood in an airy hall, clicking through slides showing examples of how governments around the world improve their “environmental civilization” — a concept espouse...
By Jude D. Blanchette
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Defense Department scrambles to fill top job as vacancies and acting appointees pile up
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Reporting from Washington — Who is running the Pentagon? These days it can change with dizzying speed as the Trump administration struggles to find nominees for top civilian a...
By Jim Townsend
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
The US is silent as Turkey starts receiving a Russian missile system that could jeopardize the F-35 stealth fighterAs NATO ally Turkey receives its first shipment of the controversial Russian air defense system that has for months been driving a wedge between Ankara and Washington, the US ...
By Jim Townsend
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Fast-Forward with 5GSometimes the most valuable military assets are those you can't see. That may be the case with 5G—the lightning-fast, next-generation wireless network technologies that commer...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Democrats Have Found Their Battle Cry
U.S. presidential elections used to be about which candidate would best lead the free world. Now Democrats are advancing an unprecedented argument in modern American politics:...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Russia looks for Asia LNG buyers to blunt Western sanctions' biteRussia is boosting Arctic production of liquefied natural gas to counter growing competition from the U.S. while looking to Asia's major energy importers to buffer projects ag...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Turkey has the S-400. The Trump administration is silent.After months of threatening quick, severe action against Turkey should Ankara accept the Russian-made S-400 air defense system, the Trump administration has yet to react to th...
By Jim Townsend
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Turkey receives first Russian missile delivery, risking US ire
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Turkey received the first batch of Russia's S-400 missile defence system on Friday in a move expected to raise tensions with the United States, which has repeatedly warned aga...
By Nicholas Heras
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and GoogleIt is the size of a small suitcase and can be placed discreetly in the back of a car. When the device is powered up, it begins secretly monitoring hundreds of cellphones in th...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The US has a risky new plan to protect oil tankers from Iranian attacks
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The Trump administration is planning to send US Navy ships to help escort oil tankers in the Gulf in order to protect them from possible Iranian aggression. But some experts w...
By Ilan Goldenberg
