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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Joe Biden’s 5 Tech PrioritiesPresident-elect Joe Biden’s transition team describes its animating philosophy as “build back better.” It’s both a nod to the Trump administration’s penchant for paring back t...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Row explodes between Pentagon, Biden transition team
In The News
The U.S. acting defense secretary has canceled planned meetings between Defense Department officials and the Biden transition team. It’s a move the department is categorizing ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Russia is winning the Arctic long game
In The News
Time for a T-12 club of tech-friendly democracies? Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security, thinks so. He told Global Translations that we are “probabl...
By Richard Fontaine
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An emerging new alliance of democracies
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There may be new a kid on the bloc in 2021. This week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicated that he will travel next month to India with a grand project in mind. Fol...
By Rachel Rizzo
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CNAS Defense Program Announces Six New Adjunct Fellows
Press Release
Washington, December 17, 2020—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce six new adjunct fellows to its Defense Program. Joining as Adjunct Senior Fe...
By Cole Stevens
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In The News
Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Massive hack of US government launches search for answers as Russia named top suspectDays after several US agencies confirmed their networks were compromised in a massive data breach, federal officials are still struggling to understand the scope of the damage...
By Carrie Cordero
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Technology & National Security
Trump Could Torpedo a Bill to Boost Funding for AIOver a tumultuous four years, the Trump administration has steadily emphasized the importance of artificial intelligence to American competitiveness. Now President Trump must ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Democracies need to re-learn the art of deception
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Five hundred dummies descended on the French coast on the night of June 5th 1944. The crack of gunfire sounded from each one, courtesy of a small pyrotechnic device. As they t...
By Jennifer McArdle
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
As China Leads Quantum Computing Race, U.S. Spies Plan for a World with Fewer SecretsBack in 1994, when quantum computers existed only as so much chalk on a blackboard, mathematician Peter Shor invented what may soon prove to be their killer app. Shor trained ...
By Paul Scharre
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In The News
National Security Human Capital
‘This can’t be my Army’ — The Fort Hood report is a long-overdue wake-up call for Army leadersWhen Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston finished reading an independent committee’s review of Fort Hood — every single line of the 152 pages, he says — he flipped back to ...
By Emma Moore
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Can China Become Self-reliant in Semiconductors?The U.S. added China's biggest computer chipmaker SMIC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies last week, a move that will further widen the gap between China’s c...
By Martijn Rasser
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Nato has joined US in regarding China as a ‘risk’ to security, US envoy saysAmerica and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization arrived “late to the game” but now see clearly that China is a “risk”, Kay Bailey Hutchison, the US envoy to N...
By Carisa Nietsche
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Christian Beckner, Josh Campbell and Alexis Collins Join CNAS as Adjunct Senior Fellows
Washington, December 10, 2020—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Christian Beckner, Senior Director of Retail Technology and Cybersecuri...
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
U.S. Policy on China May Move From ‘America First’ to America & Co.In tech, Metcalfe’s Law posits that a network becomes more useful in proportion to the number of its users, squared. That means big networks are much more valuable than small ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Iran assassination: One of many attempts to box in Biden
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As President-elect Joe Biden considers his first foreign-policy moves upon taking office, perhaps none is garnering more attention – and coming under greater pressure – than h...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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In The News
Technology & National Security
AI Ethical Principles Offer Strength, Opportunity“Artificial intelligence will be the future, and the department ... must readily and effectively adopt its best practices if the [U.S.] wants to maintain its superpower status...
By Megan Lamberth
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The Biden duo tasked with rallying America's allies
In The News
The announcement of President-elect Joe Biden's long-time aide Antony Blinken as his choice of secretary of state last month was welcomed by the foreign policy establishment i...
By Martijn Rasser
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In The News
Defense / National Security Human Capital
AP sources: Biden picks Lloyd Austin as secretary of defensePresident-elect Joe Biden will nominate retired four-star Army general Lloyd J. Austin to be secretary of defense, according to four people familiar with the decision. If conf...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Congress wants to boost the prominence of Pentagon’s AI centerCongress signaled its confidence in the Pentagon’s young artificial intelligence office through a series of measures that increase its standing in the agency, including giving...
By Martijn Rasser
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Joe Biden wants to re-enter the nuclear deal with Iran
The assassin was not a human. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, erstwhile maestro of Iran’s nuclear-weapons programme, was gunned down on November 27th by a remote-controlled machinegun mou...
