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Technology & National Security
Guess Who’s a Drone Power Now. TurkeyTurkey might never develop its own stealth fighter, but the country has become a major user, and seller, of an entirely different class of warplane. Armed drones. Tunisia in m...
By Samuel Bendett
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Coronavirus Can’t Quarantine The Proxy War Between U.S. and Iran
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A pandemic is spreading around the world, challenging global health systems and national preparedness. About the only thing the novel coronavirus is not disrupting is conflict...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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This Is a Particularly Bad Time for U.S.-Iran Tensions to Flare
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A sober American leader — looking at the scale of the crisis she faced at home, recognizing that she had to contend not just with a novel virus but a fractured political syste...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Coronavirus: China’s mask-making juggernaut cranks into gear, sparking fears of over-reliance on world’s workshop
The Liu family factory has been making diapers and baby products in the Chinese city of Quanzhou for over 10 years, but in February, for the first time, it started making face...
By Rush Doshi
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U.S. and China Turn Coronavirus Into a Geopolitical Football
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In a bid to restore its reputation globally, China claims to have fundamentally contained the spread of coronavirus in its hardest-hit areas and has pledged $20 million to hel...
By Kristine Lee
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Place Your Bets on Russia’s New Bomber
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The Russian government has approved the development of a new heavy bomber. Now we wait. The Kremlin inked a deal with Tupolev, a subsidiary of the United Aircraft Corporation,...
By Samuel Bendett
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Coronavirus: The Deadly New U.S.-Iran StandoffThe official COVlD-19 death toll in Iran has risen to 237 people today as the U.S.-Iranian diplomatic standoff continues to slow down international cooperation to fight the ne...
By Peter Harrell
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US walks tightrope as coronavirus hits adversaries
The spread of coronavirus around the globe is raising questions about how the United States should help its adversaries mitigate the disease. The Trump administration has sent...
By Kristine Lee
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Iran Sanctions Aggravate Coronavirus Crisis
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Have years of U.S. sanctions and efforts to isolate Iran affected the ability to get information about –- or aid to help control –- the coronavirus, as it continues to spread?...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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U.S. military scrambles to confront a new reality across the Middle East
In the weeks since an American drone strike killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, U.S. military leaders have been sprinting to confront a dangerous new reality in the Midd...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Huawei or the Highway“Huawei” — The name at the center of the trade war between the United States and China, and the foremost player in the battle over 5G. Recently becoming the second-largest sel...
By Peter Harrell
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As Netanyahu claims win, Israel loses U.S. Democrats
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After Monday’s parliamentary election in Israel, the third in less than a year, the country faced a familiar reality. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party appeared ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Technology & National Security
Washington’s desperate search for a Huawei substituteAfter failing to strong-arm Europe into banning Huawei from its budding 5G networks, Washington is pivoting from stick to carrot. The decision by the United Kingdom in Januar...
By Martijn Rasser
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
Veterans Of Afghanistan Conflict React To Negotiations Between U.S. And Taliban...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Kurds Determined to Try IS Foreign Fighters in Syria
Syrian Kurdish officials seem firm on moving ahead with their plans to put captured Islamic State (IS) foreign fighters on trial in Syria, despite little international support...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Uncertain future for thousands of Idlib jihadists
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The humanitarian crisis that began with the Syrian government’s and Russia’s military escalation in north-western Syria continues. The United Nations said the situation has re...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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The Taliban Peace Deal Might Have Been Had Many Years and Thousands of Lives Ago
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The end was closing in on them. Not two months after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban’s Kandahar stronghold was about to fall to its Northern Alliance antagon...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Technology & National Security
As White House fixates on China threats, other research priorities languishThe White House’s budget proposal for science and technology research met with disapproval from Democrats on the House Science Committee Thursday, with lawmakers pressing Pres...
By Martijn Rasser
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In The News
National Security Human Capital
Inspector general to probe whether VA chief Wilkie tried to discredit Democratic aide who reported sexual assaultThe Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general has opened an investigation into allegations that Secretary Robert Wilkie tried to dig up dirt on an aide to a top Democr...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Technology & National Security
Are today’s military helmets better at preventing brain injury? Not always, study saysYour great-grandfather’s World War I helmet that’s stuffed in the back of the closet could be just as effective at preventing brain injury from some blasts as a modern-day mil...
By Paul Scharre
