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The Pentagon Is Finally Getting a New Defense Secretary
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After more than four months as acting U.S. defense secretary, the longest anyone has served in that position, Patrick Shanahan will be formally nominated to become President D...
By Jim Townsend
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North Korea Pushes Trump's Boundaries With Latest Missile Tests
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North Korea is once again pressing the boundaries of what it can get away with, returning to missile tests this week in violation of international sanctions championed by U.S....
By Eric Brewer
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Technology & National Security
Avoiding the AI weapons raceToday's great powers are sliding toward a new arms race, this time on the battleground of lethal computer code, but experts say that rushing to develop autonomous weapons — wh...
By Paul Scharre
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In The News
Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Why Russia is the big winner of the Iran deal falloutIran announced Wednesday that it would stop complying with certain elements of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the Iran nuclear deal, in 60 days if the...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Echoes of Iraq in Trump’s Confrontation with Iran
The Trump administration says it does not want war with Iran. Many of its actions suggest otherwise. In the year since U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 Iran ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The Pacific push: New rotation, thousands more soldiers heading to the region as the Army readies for a new kind of fight
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The Army is growing its force in the Pacific region, keeping rotational forces there longer with plans to increase the number of soldiers they send, and soon beginning a new d...
By Chris Dougherty
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The Flash Point Between America and Iran Could Be Iraq's Militias
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All the Americans could do was shake their heads as a Shiite militia flag waved above their base. The troops from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division were still getting u...
By Eric Brewer
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In The News
Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump’s Iran policy is making war more likelyThe United States is in the midst of an extremely dangerous standoff with Iran — and President Donald Trump is mainly to blame. Exactly one year ago Wednesday, Trump withdrew ...
By Eric Brewer
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Technology & National Security
Report: Kill the idea of “killer robots” before they kill usThe global competition to develop fully autonomous weapons systems guided by artificial intelligence risks developing into a full-blown arms race, according to a new report fr...
By Paul Scharre
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Inside the West’s Plans for Arctic War Against Russia
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On the slope of a snow-covered hill deep in the Arctic Circle, some of the world’s best-trained commandos are struggling to complete an ambush exercise knee-deep in the snow. ...
By Jim Townsend
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U.S. Risks Emboldening Kim With Muted Response to Missile Test
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Kim Jong Un’s weekend missile launch -- and the U.S.’s muted reaction -- heralds a new, riskier phase in North Korean efforts to test President Donald Trump’s limits in stalle...
By Duyeon Kim
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Iranian threats led to White House’s deployment announcement, U.S. officials sayi
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Tension between the United States and Iran rose Monday as Tehran indicated it may curtail its full cooperation with a landmark nuclear agreement and the Trump administration s...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Russia strongly responds to tribal forum in Syria’s Ain Issa
The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly responded to a meeting of Arab tribes in Ain Issa on Friday, which the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) had organized, suggesting it under...
By Nicholas Heras
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A Boom Time for U.S. Sanctions
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The United States, as of this writing, has 7,967 sanctions in place. Treasury Department data show them in many sizes. There are sanctions on individual people, like the Mexi...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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What’s Russia still doing to interfere with U.S. politics — and what’s the U.S. doing about it?
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President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone Friday morning, covering, according to both sides, a wide range of issues. Included among them, according t...
By Carrie Cordero
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Rebecca Liao, Executive Vice President of Skuchain, Joins CNAS Board of Advisors
Washington, May 2, 2019 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Rebecca Liao, Executive Vice President at Skuchain, a top blockchain compan...
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Why is Russia clashing with the United States over Venezuela?
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There was an unexpected twist Tuesday evening as Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó's attempted uprising against President Nicolás Maduro’s government appeared to be spu...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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US push to zero Iran oil exports may be more like 500,000 b/d: analysts
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The Trump administration's push to bring Iranian crude exports to zero officially begins Thursday, but analysts believe Iran will continue to export roughly 500,000 b/d throug...
By Peter Harrell
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Pentagon: US in Syria 'for the long haul;' hails Peshmerga in 'Operation Viking Hammer'
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Michael Mulroy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense, affirmed on Monday that the US does “expect to be” in Syria “for the long haul.” Citing the Special Envoy for the Globa...
By Nicholas Heras
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Xi Jinping's Second Belt and Road Forum: Three Key Takeaways
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Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted some 5,000 delegates from across the globe at the Belt and Road forum in Beijing last week to discuss his signature infrastructure project,...
By Daniel Kliman
