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As NATO gets ready for its biggest military exercise in years, things are heating up closer to Russia
NATO forces are converging on Norway for Trident Juncture, which will be the alliance's largest military exercise in nearly two decades. But military activity has been increas...
By Jim Townsend
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Khashoggi crisis may test Saudi PIF's expansion ambitions
A year ago the Saudi sovereign investor Public Investment Fund (PIF) was a rising star among state-backed funds. It poured billions of dollars into the SoftBank technology fun...
By Rachel Ziemba
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NATO's biggest military exercise in years just started, but Russia may be more worried about 2 countries that aren't members of the alliance
Trident Juncture officially started Thursday, with some 50,000 troops from all 29 NATO members and Sweden and Finland preparing for drills on land, sea, and in the air from th...
By Jim Townsend
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Engineering Supersoldiers: Boost in Lethality May Come From Within
When Sgt. 1st Class Victor Medina received groundbreaking therapy in 2012 involving virtual reality and computer-generated puzzles to help recover from a brain injury sustaine...
By Andrew Herr & Elsa B. Kania
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U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections
The United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation to interfere in elections, telling them that Amer...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia Linked to Disruptive Industrial Control Malware
In December, researchers spotted a new family of industrial control malware that had been used in an attack on a Middle Eastern energy plant. Known as Triton, or Trisis, the s...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump's decision to exit arms treaty with Russia could free the U.S. to put new missiles in Asia
President Trump says he is withdrawing from a landmark Cold War-era arms treaty with Russia because Moscow has been violating the agreement for years. But scrapping the 1987 ...
By Eric Sayers
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Trump says he'll scrap a Cold War-era missile deal with Russia, which could throw 'another hand grenade' into NATO
At a rally in Nevada on October 20, President Donald Trump said he would pull the US out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty signed by the US and the Soviet Union ...
By Jim Townsend
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China’s missile build-up — a threat to U.S. bases in Japan — likely a key factor in Trump plan to exit INF
US President Donald Trump has pinned much of the blame for Washington’s planned exit from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) on Russian violations of the landm...
By Eric Sayers
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Trump may soon kill a US-Russia arms control deal. It might be a good idea.
President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw the United States from a three-decade-old arms control treaty with Russia. If the White House follows through, it could imperil ...
By Eric Sayers
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Trump’s Plan to Leave a Major Arms Treaty With Russia Might Actually Be About China
President Donald Trump’s proposal to pull out of a major U.S. arms control agreement with Russia is not just about Moscow, or nuclear weapons. The move also clears a path to b...
By Elbridge Colby
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Can the U.S. Make Oil Sanctions on Iran Work?
With two weeks to go until U.S. sanctions officially take aim at Iran’s oil exports, it’s not at all clear how much crude Iran is still selling—or which countries will keep bu...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The Next Tech Talent Shortage: Quantum Computing Researchers
Christopher Savoie, founder and chief executive of a start-up called Zapata, offered jobs this year to three scientists who specialize in an increasingly important technology ...
By Paul Scharre
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Photos Link Suspect in Alleged Killing of Journalist to Saudi Government
Oil executives say they are disturbed by photos of the Saudi crown prince and the energy minister standing in Houston with a man who appears to be a key suspect in the killing...
By Peter Harrell
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Business titans fight shy of Saudi’s trillion-dollar charm offensive
When Mohammed bin Salman was touring the UK and US earlier this year, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia – and its de facto ruler – could have relied almost exclusively on busin...
By Rachel Ziemba
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World Watches As More Details About The Khashoggi Case Come To Light
Steve Inskeep talks to Victoria Nuland, a veteran diplomat who served in the Obama and George W. Bush administrations, about the impact of the U.S. response to the Jamal Khash...
By Victoria Nuland
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Bolton readies Moscow visit amid U.S. concerns about missile treaty
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, will visit Moscow next week for talks that may include telling Russian officials that the United States plans ...
By Eric Sayers
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Russian narrative against US-backed forces in Syria intensifies
American officials and a Syrian rights body has denied claims made by the Russian government as it ramped up its narrative this week against the US-backed forces in northeaste...
By Nicholas Heras
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Announcing the 2018 Shortlist: Young China Watcher of the Year Award
After reviewing dozens of candidates for our first annual Young China Watcher of the Year Award, our nomination committee narrowed the list of highly qualified individuals dow...
By Abigail Grace
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In Washington, Israel Stays Quiet As Anger Grows Over Saudi Arabia And Khashoggi
As the days drag by without a Saudi explanation for what happened to Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who disappeared inside the Saudi Consulate in Turkey and ha...
By Ilan Goldenberg