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Oil Gives the U.S. Major Leverage over Venezuela. How Will the Trump Administration Use It?
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Venezuela’s state-run oil company is reducing production as a U.S. military blockade severely strains the country’s fuel storage capacity, underscoring the Trump administratio...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Is Tying His Legacy to Whatever Happens in Venezuela
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Possibly, just possibly, Donald Trump just scored a foreign-policy success that could define his legacy. By striking Venezuela and whisking away Nicolás Maduro (along with Mad...
By Richard Fontaine
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America’s Strategic Investment Plan in Contested Region
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The State Department has set a new tone for the United States’ priorities when it comes to foreign assistance in the Indo‑Pacific region, where the country is locked in a batt...
By Derek Grossman
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China’s Plans to Dominate at Sea in 2026China, a top maritime rival of the United States, is expected to continue rapid naval modernization and expand its presence at sea in the new year, following the fielding of n...
By Tom Shugart
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Chinese Military Threat Grows, According to Pentagon ReportChairman Xi Jinping continues to invest heavily in the People's Liberation Army (PLA), as China's military approaches his 2027 "centennial military building goal"....
By Tom Shugart
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U.S. Envoy Backs ‘Free, Open’ Indo-Pacific at Quad Meeting in Beijing amid PLA Taiwan Drills
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In a pointed display of diplomatic unity, the US ambassador to China announced that the envoys of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) nations – the United States, Australia...
By Lisa Curtis
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Trump’s Venezuela Escalation Raises Questions on Next Steps
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President Donald Trump’s unusual decision to reveal a covert US strike against what he said was a drug-trafficking facility in Venezuela marked a new escalation in his pressur...
By Carrie Cordero
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National Security Human Capital
What Is Nifty Nugget? NDAA Revives 47-Year-Old Military ExerciseIn 1978, the Defense Department conducted an exercise to simulate what would happen if it needed to mobilize all U.S. forces globally in the face of an existential conflict....
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Technology & National Security
For Defense AI, Bubble, Bubble, Toil and … Bargains?: 2026 PreviewThe Pentagon could pick up technology and talent at bargain prices if soaring investments in artificial intelligence finally come crashing down in 2026, experts told Breaking ...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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China Aircraft Carriers Set to Outnumber U.S. in Pacific by 2035: Analysts
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China may have more aircraft carriers in the Pacific than the U.S. by 2035, analysts' assessment following a Department of Defense report indicates, underscoring the strong mo...
By Tom Shugart
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Xi Tests Trump on Taiwan with Drills Firing Dozens of Rockets
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China fired dozens of rockets into waters near Taiwan as part of its most expansive exercises in decades, testing Donald Trump’s support for the self-ruled island after a majo...
By Becca Wasser
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Inside the Air Force Plan to Start Its Own Experimental One-Way Attack Drone Unit
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The Air Force will stand up a new unit next year to shape how the service fights with low-cost, one-way attack drones....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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How China Built an Arms Industry to Rival the West
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In 2016, Beijing launched a new aerospace conglomerate called Aero Engine Corp. of China. It had a challenging mandate: to develop top-line aircraft engines, a technology Chin...
By Tom Shugart
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Technology & National Security
Ukraine’s Campaign Against Russia’s Shadow Fleet Goes GlobalUkraine has struck a Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea, signaling a significant expansion of Kyiv’s long-range maritime campaign against Moscow’s sanc...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s Economy Is Struggling. But That Won’t Bring Putin to the Negotiating Table for Years
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The Russian economy has been dealing with growing headwinds this year: unruly inflation, a ballooning budget deficit – due in part to massive military spending – and shrinking...
By Richard Connolly
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U.S. Submarines Are Outnumbered in the Pacific. South Korea Has a Plan to Help
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South Korea wants to join the undersea naval elite – and has received the blessing of U.S. President Donald Trump to do just that....
By Tom Shugart
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Expands AI Policy Research with New AppointmentsThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce three new staff hires as it expands its multiyear Artificial Intelligence (AI) Security and Stability Init...
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Venezuela Sends Oil Tankers Under Naval Escort After Trump Declares Maritime Blockade
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According to sources familiar with the matter, several commercial ships departed Venezuela’s eastern coast between the evening of December 16 and the morning of December 17 un...
By Edward Fishman
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U.S. Clamps Down on Investment in Chinese Tech Companies
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President Trump signed into law new powers to screen and restrict U.S. investment in Chinese technology firms, marking the most significant effort yet to police how American c...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Can Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro Survive Donald Trump’s Oil Blockade?
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Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro faces his biggest challenge yet after US President Donald Trump announced a blockade of the South American nation’s sanctioned oil exports, b...
By Edward Fishman, Joe Daniels & Jamie Smyth
