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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China and the US are locked in a crucial battle for space dominationFifty years after the first moon landing, an American triumph that gripped the world, China marked the start of 2019 with its own lunar achievement. Chang’e-4, a Chinese probe...
By Elsa B. Kania
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U.S. Campaign to Ban Huawei Overseas Stumbles as Allies Resist
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The Trump administration’s aggressive campaignto prevent countries from using Huawei and other Chinese telecommunications equipment in their next-generation wireless networks ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Technology & National Security
How swarming drones will change warfareIn February, the defence secretary said "swarm squadrons" will be deployed by the British armed forces in the coming years. The US has also been testing interconnected, co-ope...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Here’s the Key Innovation in DARPA AI Project: Ethics From the StartA new effort to build patrol drones for urban fights began by forming an ethics advisory board. A DARPA program seeks AI-infused drones that can help prevent friendly fire and...
By Paul Scharre
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Russian oligarch and Putin ally sues Treasury, demands lifting of U.S. sanctionsRussian billionaire Oleg Deripaska sued the Treasury Department and Secretary Steven Mnuchin in U.S. federal court to demand the lifting of remaining U.S. sanctions against hi...
By Peter Harrell
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Trump administration’s new Arctic defense strategy expected to zero in on concerns about ChinaThe Trump administration is drafting a new Arctic defense strategy focusing heavily on competition with China, whose expansion around the world has drawn increasing scrutiny f...
By Jim Townsend
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No One Wants to Help Bashar al-Assad Rebuild Syria
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When the Syrian conflict began, in March 2011, Bashar al-Assad seemed likely to be ousted, like other strongmen swept away by the Arab Spring. Eight years later, Assad is stil...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump officials warn more Iran sanctions are coming
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Donald Trump administration officials today told US and foreign businesspeople that legal trade with Iran — already severely restricted by sanctions — is likely to constrict f...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Eight years on, Assad clings on but beleaguered
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Bashar al-Assad has won his war for political survival but as Syria's conflict enters its ninth year, his country is fractured, cash-strapped, and prey to both friend and foe....
By Nicholas Heras
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China Is Catching Up to the US in AI Research—FastAt the world's top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms to make sense of images from twin cameras co...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Pentagon takes aim at China and Russia in proposed $750 billion budget
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The Pentagon on Tuesday unveiled details of the $750 billion national defense budget that the Trump administration has asked Congress to pass, calling it an example of how the...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Chris Kolenda On The Possibility Of Peace In Afghanistan
Chris Kolenda, founder of the Strategic Leaders Academy, talks about the possibility of a peace deal in Afghanistan. Listen to the full conversation on Sirius XM:...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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CERAWeek: Will US extend Iran oil waivers? Q&A with sanctions expert Elizabeth Rosenberg
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When the US reimposed sanctions on Iranian crude in November, it also issued waivers to Iran's top oil buyers, allowing them to continue their imports, while agreeing to some ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Plan to charge allies for US troop presence carries risks for Americans in North AfricaPresident Donald Trump’s reported plan to charge allies for US military bases could jeopardize access agreements that were set up after the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, ...
By Jim Townsend
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
At Trump’s Pentagon, Empty Offices Are the New NormalThe resignation of two senior Pentagon officials last week brings the number of vacancies and posts filled on a temporary basis at the U.S. Department of Defense to a new high...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Jim Townsend
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Technology & National Security
Should We Ban ‘Killer Robots’? Can We?We now live in a world where a Campaign To Stop Killer Robots is a deadly serious thing, officially endorsed by 26 national governments. (28, if you count Palestine and the Va...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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Trump pumps up Pentagon war-fighting account in bid to fund defense over domestic programs
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President Trump asked for a massive increase in the Pentagon’s war-fighting account in an attempt to spend more on defense without having to cut a deal with Democrats on domes...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
‘You’re with China or you’re with us’: Global relations hinge on outcome of trade talks, U.S. analysts sayTech giant Huawei has become a proxy for U.S. struggles with Beijing over the Chinese government’s aggressive backing of its private companies, and American experts warn globa...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
The Army’s ATLAS program isn’t building killer robots (yet)Last week, a number of media outlets pounced on the idea the U.S. Army may be trying to turn its gun duties over to artificial intelligence, prompting a flurry of headlines ab...
By Michael Horowitz
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Technology & National Security
Genocide Swarms & Assassin Drones: The Case For Banning Lethal AI70-ton robotic battle tanks? Scary. Three grams of explosive on a mini-drone that knows your face? Also scary. Thousands of such drones? Millions? That’s potentially a strateg...
By Paul Scharre
