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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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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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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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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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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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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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Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops
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For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries hosting American troops aren’t paying enough. Now he wants to get even, and then some. Under White House direc...
By Jim Townsend
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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
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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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US ‘Gets Its Ass Handed To It’ In Wargames: Here’s A $24 Billion Fix
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The US keeps losing, hard, in simulated wars with Russia and China. Bases burn. Warships sink. But we could fix the problem for about $24 billion a year, one well-connected ex...
By Robert O. Work
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Activity at North Korean launch site sours Trump’s post-Hanoi honeymoon with Kim
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When President Trump abruptly walked away last week from a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, he emphasized that it was not an angry walk, “it was a very fr...
By Duyeon Kim
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Technology & National Security
Fear & Loathing In AI: How The Army Triggered Fears Of Killer RobotsThe Army rolled out its ATLAS targeting AI so clumsily that it blindsided the Pentagon’s own Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and inspired headlines about “AI-powered kill...
By Paul Scharre
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'Take it seriously': North Korea nuclear threat looms over northern Australia
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North Korea publicly painted a nuclear target on Australia in April 2017. Kim Jong-un's regime seized on the fact that a contingent of US marines is now in a permanent, rotati...
By David Asher
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U.S.-Backed Forces Are Holding 2,000 Suspected ISIS Fighters in Syria
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U.S.-backed forces in Syria are holding more than 2,000 suspected Islamic State fighters, U.S. defense officials said, at least double previous estimates and an obstacle to Tr...
By Nicholas Heras
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Europe and the U.S. are at odds over Iran. Cuba may be next.
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Since President Trump’s May announcement that the United States will pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, Europe has been stuck in the middle of th...
By Peter Harrell
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Military decisions are 'key catalysts' in Venezuela: Rachel Ziemba
Rachel Ziemba of Ziemba Insights says Venezuela's opposition is very much a "government-in-waiting." She also discusses the investment case for Nigeria. Watch the full conver...
By Rachel Ziemba
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US shifts weapons from Iraq to Syria
The Pentagon rerouted millions of dollars’ worth of weapons and vehicles from Iraq to Syria in the second half of 2018, Al-Monitor has learned, as US-backed forces cornered th...
By Nicholas Heras
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The Trump administration quietly corrects its diplomatic slight of the E.U.
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On Monday, two months after news broke that Washington had downgraded the diplomatic status of the European Union mission to the United States, the U.S. ambassador to the Euro...
By Rachel Rizzo
