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CNAS Selects Kaleigh Thomas as 2020 1LT Andrew J. Bacevich, Jr., USA Award Recipient
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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Kaleigh Thomas, Research Associate for the CNAS Middle East Security Program, has been selected as th...
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
CNAS Launches Major Effort on U.S. National Technology StrategyThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of its U.S. National Technology Strategy project, a U.S. government–supported initiative to bolster Am...
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Technology & National Security
The Army wants to build a brand new exoskeleton to help soldiers ruck faster and harderThe Army is formally moving ahead with the development and fielding of a powered exoskeleton to help soldiers move faster and carry more while reducing overall fatigue after y...
By Samuel Bendett
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Elina Ribakova Joins CNAS as Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Energy, Economics, and Security Program
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Elina Ribakova, Deputy Chief Economist at the Institute of International Finance, has joined CNAS as ...
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National Security Human Capital
Rep. Anthony Brown to Keynote CNAS Event on Race in the MilitaryThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today that Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD) will deliver keynote remarks at the launch of the CNAS discussion series on Race i...
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US military draws a line: No more bias against pregnant soldiersOne day shortly after Lt. Col. Jessica Ruttenber went back to work as an Air Force pilot following the birth of her first child in 2011, the controls on her jet started malfun...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Are China and Iran meddling in US elections? It’s complicated.
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This spring, the Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua posted a roughly two-minute video titled “Once Upon a Virus” on social media, including on official Chinese government ac...
By Carrie Cordero
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Technology & National Security
Report: How democracies can push back on China's growing tech dominanceA group of researchers from Europe, the U.S. and Japan are proposing a "tech alliance" of democratic countries in response to the Chinese government's use of technology standa...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
Commerce has questions to answer on data access and national securityA teenager in Oklahoma uploads a video of herself mimicking the latest dance craze to an app on her phone. Is that a national security risk? Should the government ban the app?...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China’s coronavirus vaccine shows military’s growing role in medical researchThe largest armed force in the world, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is not known for its cutting edge medical research. But since 2015, it has ramped up recruitment ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
The Trump administration is considering moving U.S. Africa Command. It won’t be cheap or easy.The Trump administration’s effort to relocate the U.S. military headquarters that oversees operations in Africa could cost at least $1 billion and create new diplomatic and lo...
By Jim Townsend
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Technology & National Security
New Pentagon Initiative Aims to Help Allies, Contractors Work Together on AITo better compete with China and Russia in developing artificial intelligence, the Defense Department will launch a new partnership with defense organizations from more than 1...
By Martijn Rasser
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Is Palau the key to the Marine Corps’ fight against China?
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During Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s stop at the tiny island nation of Palau he visited civil affair compounds and met with high ranking government officials, building on a r...
By Chris Dougherty
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Trump loves sanctioning foreign countries — but he’s terrible at it
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In his four years as president, Donald Trump has responded to nearly every major foreign policy problem with the same tool: sanctions. Change the Iranian regime’s behavior? Sa...
By Edward Fishman
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
America’s problem is much bigger than TikTokChina watchers are waiting to see how, and whether, Chinese company ByteDance sells its wildly popular social media app TikTok to a U.S. buyer by Sept. 15, as the Trump admini...
By Kara Frederick, Elsa B. Kania & Van Jackson
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CNAS-CSIS Report: Toward a More Proliferated World?
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The United States and the international community have been relatively successful in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Disincentives and barriers to entry to the nucle...
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Technology & National Security
Former Google chief Eric Schmidt warns of China’s “high-tech authoritarianism”China will lead the world in artificial intelligence if the U.S. fails to spend billions of dollars more on research. Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt sounded the a...
By Martijn Rasser
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
What war with China could look likePentagon war planners can envision a conflict with China starting in any number of ways. For example, they fear a scenario that might involve a mass of Chinese military force...
By Chris Dougherty
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Technology & National Security
Russia’s Got Dogfighting Drones, Too—Just How Smart Are They?Russian industry is developing a new, low-cost drone that could function as an autonomous wingman for human pilots. But it’s unclear how much the developers at drone-maker K...
By Samuel Bendett
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
3 Afghans accused of links to insider attacks that killed U.S. troops are among Taliban prisoners to be releasedThree Afghans accused of involvement in the deaths of U.S. troops in so-called insider attacks are among more than 300 high-value Taliban prisoners that the Afghan government ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
