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Pentagon says it’s ‘on time’ with Syria safe zone despite questions
In The News
The Pentagon insisted it was ahead of schedule in establishing a so-called "safe zone" Monday after conducting its first joint patrol in Syria’s northeast over the weekend, al...
By Nicholas Heras
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In The News
National Security Human Capital
2020 Candidates With Military Experience Struggle to Break ThroughThree Democratic 2020 candidates could boast of military service in America’s longest-running wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But that experience is doing nothing for them in th...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Russia and Iran tussle for Syria’s war spoils
In The News
Alongside Iran’s and Russia’s campaigns to restore Syrian President Bashar Assad’s monopoly on power has run a parallel campaign carving up much of the country’s resources in ...
By Nicholas Heras
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National Security Human Capital
First sisters to become Army generals say it was ‘not a game of chance. It is hard work.’One sister had wanted to be a soldier since she was young; the other planned to have a career in the Foreign Service. Both marked a milestone for the U.S. Army this summer: Ma...
By Emma Moore
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Transatlantic Security / National Security Law
Trump Cuts “Muscle” from European Defense to Fund Border WallThe list of military construction projects the Trump administration is defunding to pay for its controversial border wall includes more than $770 million from an initiative st...
By Jim Townsend
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Senior Officials Concede Loss of U.S. Clout as Trump Prepares For U.N. Summit
In The News
On the eve of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, two top State Department officials voiced alarm about America’s loss of diplomatic influence as Chin...
By Kristine Lee
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Hollowed-Out Pentagon Begins to Staff Up
In The News
After more than seven months without a confirmed leader, the Pentagon is slowly but surely beginning to rebuild its senior ranks under new Defense Secretary Mark Esper, but pe...
By Jim Townsend
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As Trump mulls Iran diplomacy, Mnuchin plays more visible role
The White House on Thursday said that it had nothing to announce in response to a Kyodo news report that the United States had requested a meeting between President Donald Tru...
By Peter Harrell
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The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran
In The News
In July of 2017, the White House was at a crossroads on the question of Iran. President Trump had made a campaign pledge to leave the “terrible” nuclear deal that President Ba...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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In The News
Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
New U.S. Sanctions on Iran Set Back French Mediation EffortsThe Trump administration cast new doubt Wednesday on efforts by France to ease tensions between the U.S. and Iran as Washington sanctioned what it called an Iranian “oil-for-t...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Technology & National Security
Coming Soon to the Battlefield: Robots That Can KillWallops Island — a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near a famed national refuge for horses — is mostly known as a launch site for government a...
By Robert O. Work
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Russians Begin to Consider Life Without Putin
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At the height of summer, the Russian capital was plunged into an unexpected political crisis as thousands of people took to the streets week after week to protest the election...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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How Trump triggered the Kashmir turmoil
As Pakistan prepares to file a complaint about India to The Hague over Kashmir, analysts are debating the role that U.S. President Donald Trump played in stoking tensions betw...
By Richard Fontaine
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Erdogan fails to end Idlib fighting despite plea to Putin
Problems for Turkey in Syria are piling up following a failed attempt by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to ask Russia for help to stop a Syrian government offensive in...
By Nicholas Heras
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The Most Undiplomatic of Diplomats Is Trump’s Man in Middle East
As the top American envoy to one of the world’s most volatile regions, David Friedman is anything but diplomatic. Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel broke the mold of non-pa...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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In The News
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
New US military bases in Asia-Pacific ‘likely to be temporary’ for troop flexibilityAny new US military bases in the Asia-Pacific region are likely to be “temporary” to maximise troop flexibility and in line with the Pentagon’s agreement with Manila, accordin...
By Eric Sayers
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Strangelove redux: US experts propose having AI control nuclear weaponsHypersonic missiles, stealthy cruise missiles, and weaponized artificial intelligence have so reduced the amount of time that decision makers in the United States would theore...
By Michael Horowitz
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Lebanon Prepares for War While Israel Is at War with Itself
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On Sunday, Lebanon was rattled by two air raids. As the dust settles, the small Mediterranean republic is now waiting anxiously to see if simmering Iranian-Israeli tensions wi...
By Nicholas Heras
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In The News
Defense / Transatlantic Security
US Space Force: The race to control the space above the skyMost reporting on United States President Donald Trump's 2018 Space Force announcement was framed as another rant-filled word salad served up to military personnel attending t...
By Jim Townsend
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Turkey demands smaller Syria safe zone in US negotiations
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters that Turkey would demand a smaller safe zone in Syria. His comments follow meetings with his Russian counterpart Vladimi...
By Nicholas Heras
