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The Navy's Secret Wish: Bring Back the Old F-14 Tomcat from the Dead?The F-35C was never designed to be an air superiority fighter. Indeed, naval planners in the mid-1990s wanted the JSF to be a strike-oriented aircraft with only a 6.5G airfram...
By Robert O. Work
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Technology & National Security
Army Rolling Ahead With Manned-Unmanned ConvoysThe Army is moving forward with efforts to develop an autonomous convoy capability that could help troops transport supplies, equipment and other resources more efficiently an...
By Paul Scharre
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Counter-IS officials temper Trump’s rush to pull out of Syria
US officials in charge of the fight against the Islamic State (IS) warned today that the American-led coalition’s hard-fought gains could yet be reversed as President Donald T...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
Huawei flourishes despite perennial hurdles in USHuawei is the manifestation of everything the US fears and loathes about China: a high-tech giant, founded by a former army officer, that it believes has ties to the Communist...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Abe to meet Trump over fears Japan is being sidelined on North Korea talks
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could face some tense moments when he meets with President Trump this month at Mar-a-Lago, reflecting rising fears back home that Tokyo has ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Army hopes new units will help break Afghanistan stalemateFORT POLK, La. — Seventeen years in the infantry have turned Army 1st Sgt. Shaun Morgan into a hard-charging grunt, but the veteran of five combat tours who recently deployed ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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US, Turkey on collision course in Syria's Manbij
The United States and Turkey are on a collision course in northern Syria, threatening to ignite a dangerous new phase in the Syrian civil war, undermine the fight against the ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria's army vows to finish off last rebels outside Damascus
Syria's army promised Saturday to finish off fighters in the final opposition holdout of devastated Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus after a penultimate pocket was declared "em...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
China's Social Credit System seeks to assign citizens scores, engineer social behaviourChinese authorities claim they have banned more than 7 million people deemed "untrustworthy" from boarding flights, and nearly 3 million others from riding on high-speed train...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Skeptics Ask: Can Army Field Armed Robots By 2024?Can the Army develop a Robotic Combat Vehicle within six years? Some of the experts we spoke to were deeply skeptical, including veteran congressional staffers badly burned by...
By Paul Scharre
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North Korea’s Response to Allied Exercises Could Shape Trump Meeting
SEOUL—U.S.-South Korean military exercises that began Sunday are set to test the durability of a diplomatic opening with North Korea aimed at halting the regime’s nuclear prog...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Putin just kicked out 150 Western diplomats. What comes next could be much worse
The Trump administration and its allies around the world expelled hundreds of Russian diplomats earlier this week after a former double agent was poisoned in the UK by operati...
By Rachel Rizzo
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How will the global effort to expel diplomats affect Russia?
Sixty Russian diplomats are being kicked out of the U.S. in a bid to punish the Kremlin for an attack on a former Russian spy in the UK. Is that the right response? Nick Schif...
By Victoria Nuland
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Russia Promises Retaliation After Western Expulsions
On Monday, the United States, 14 European Union countries, Canada, and Ukraine expelled Russian diplomats in a coordinated response to the poisoning of former Russian spy Serg...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Military budget in massive spending bill would usher in pay raises, new ships and planes
WASHINGTON – With a partial government shutdown looming, lawmakers on Capitol Hill were racing against the clock Thursday to approve a massive spending bill for fiscal year 20...
By Lauren Fish
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'Just painful': Pentagon mulls an overhaul of mandatory training policiesKANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Military leaders have said they’re overwhelmed by unnecessary training requirements, but seasoned officers at this airfield in southern Afgha...
By Andrew Swick
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White House Rift Over Russia Deepens After Trump’s Putin Call
A battle within the White House over how to address Vladimir Putin is intensifying as U.S. President Donald Trump shows little desire to confront the Russian leader on the mos...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Cities at Risk of Climate-Driven Conflict
We know that climate change imperils coastal communities around the world and endangers food and water sources, and that political and religious extremism feed off instability...
By Neil Bhatiya
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What's left of Daesh in Syria
The Islamic State militant group, whose self-proclaimed "caliphate" disintegrated last year, still controls pockets of territory in Syria. The organisation's fighters even too...
By Nicholas Heras
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Congress: We Can’t Stop Trump From Killing the Iran Deal
Key lawmakers are predicting that President Donald Trump will pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal later this spring. And although there is an appetite on Capit...
By Ilan Goldenberg