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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?
Press Release
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
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Technology & National Security
CyberBoat-330 Is A Surprising Russia-Iran Collaboration On A Robot For Shallow SeasGreat swaths of the Caspian Sea are shallow waters, too small for vessels with a deep draft to navigate or patrol. Bordered by Russia on the north and Iran on the south, the c...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Russia is talking about giving its stealthy 'Hunter' drone an air-to-air combat mission as a long-range interceptorRussia is considering giving the stealthy Okhotnik (Hunter) combat drone an air-to-air combat mission as a long-range interceptor, Russian state media reported this week. The...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Critical shortage: Overburdened drone pilots driven out of Air Force, GAO warnsThe pilots and sensor operators who fly America’s military drones have taken on a lion’s share of the Air Force aerial combat missions for more than 20 years. Since the attac...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship
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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today that it is accepting applications for the 2021 class of the Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Leade...
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China Wins Seat at International Tribunal on Law of the Sea
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China’s candidate has won an election to be a judge on a key United Nations-affiliated agency responsible for hearing cases concerning the Law of the Sea, despite U.S. opposit...
By Kristine Lee
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Technology & National Security
Keeping Close WatchAlarmed by reports of cyberattacks and the growing threat China poses to national security, the United States Congress passed a law in 2018 that would ban any facility operate...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
Russian Robot Helicopter Could Do More Than Search And RescueFor people who get lost at sea off Russian coasts, rescue may come in the form of a robot helicopter. Set for display at the upcoming Army 2020 Military Technology Exposition...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Inside the Wild Finale of DARPA’s Simulated Drone DogfightsU.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Tremel was in the cockpit of his Super Hornet fighter soaring 20,000 feet over war-torn Syria on June 18, 2017, when he detected a warplane heading...
By Samuel Bendett
