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Army Readies Long-Range Missile Tests — Post INF
In The News
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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Who Lost Turkey?
In The News
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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‘We are being outspent. We are being outpaced’: Is America ceding the future of AI to China?
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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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Defense Department scrambles to fill top job as vacancies and acting appointees pile up
In The News
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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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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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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Mark Esper's Confirmation Hearing: CNAS Experts Pose Key Questions for the Nominee
Press Note
Secretary of the Army Mark Esper will face members of the Senate Armed Services Committee this week in a hearing to consider his nomination as Secretary of Defense. As part o...
By Susanna V. Blume, Kara Frederick, Ilan Goldenberg, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Daniel Kliman, Carisa Nietsche, Ainikki Riikonen & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The US is silent as Turkey starts receiving a Russian missile system that could jeopardize the F-35 stealth fighter
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As 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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Fast-Forward with 5G
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Sometimes 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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Russia looks for Asia LNG buyers to blunt Western sanctions' bite
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Russia 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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Turkey has the S-400. The Trump administration is silent.
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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 Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and Google
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It 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
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Move over, Bahrain? Iraq signals interest in better ties with Israel
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That Israel and the Sunni-Arab Gulf states cooperate closely is the Middle East’s worst-kept secret. Despite the absence of formal diplomatic relations, everybody knows Jerusa...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Former ambassador may be North Korea's new point man in U.S. talks: source
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North Korea appears to have appointed a long-time veteran of international diplomacy as point man in the new round of denuclearisation talks with the United States, a diplomat...
By Duyeon Kim
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Biden believes NATO will cease to exist in Trump’s second term. That’s a bit far-fetched.
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President Donald Trump has called NATO "obsolete." He’s bashed European leaders, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and warmed up to strongmen such as Russian President Vla...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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'Nuclear Clock is Ticking... Very Slowly, and on Purpose' - Iran Expert
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The crumbling nuclear agreement lost yet another cornerstone this Monday, with the Iranian announcement that it is expediting uranium enrichment – above the level that was set...
By Ilan Goldenberg
