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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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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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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
In The News
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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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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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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Gregory C. Allen to Serve as Chief of Strategy and Communications in the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center
Washington, September 10, 2019 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) congratulates Gregory C. Allen, former Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Se...
By Cole Stevens
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Press Note
Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS Responds: John Bolton Departs as National Security AdvisorCNAS experts examine the impact of Bolton's departure on key foreign policy issues and U.S. national security at large....
By Carrie Cordero, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya & Kristine Lee
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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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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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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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CNAS and T4GS Launch Joint Initiative: “Future Digital Threats to Democracy”
Washington, September 10, 2019 – As part of a two-year, multi-disciplinary effort to address the ways in which democracies and open societies combat high-tech illiberalism, th...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
2020 Democratic Primary Debates: Questions for the CandidatesBy Neil Bhatiya, Susanna V. Blume, Kara Frederick, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Daniel Kliman, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Kayla M. Williams
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In The News
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
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Pentagon says it’s ‘on time’ with Syria safe zone despite questions
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The Pentagon insisted it was ahead of schedule in establishing a so-called "safe zone" Monday after conducting its first joint patrol in Syria’s northeast over the weekend, al...
By Nicholas Heras
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Russia and Iran tussle for Syria’s war spoils
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Alongside Iran’s and Russia’s campaigns to restore Syrian President Bashar Assad’s monopoly on power has run a parallel campaign carving up much of the country’s resources in ...
By Nicholas Heras
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National Security Human Capital Program
First sisters to become Army generals say it was ‘not a game of chance. It is hard work.’One sister had wanted to be a soldier since she was young; the other planned to have a career in the Foreign Service. Both marked a milestone for the U.S. Army this summer: Ma...
By Emma Moore
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Transatlantic Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Trump Cuts “Muscle” from European Defense to Fund Border WallThe list of military construction projects the Trump administration is defunding to pay for its controversial border wall includes more than $770 million from an initiative st...
By Jim Townsend
