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The September pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Robert D. Kaplan's ‘Earning the Rockies’
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We’re excited to announce that “Earning the Rockies” by Robert D. Kaplan is our September pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.” “Earning the Roc...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Carol Eggert, Senior Vice President of Military and Veteran Affairs at Comcast-NBCUniversal; and Raj M. Shah, Technology Entrepreneur and Investor, Join CNAS Board of Advisors
Washington, D.C. August 28, 2018 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce today that Carol Eggert and Raj M. Shah have joined the CNAS Board of A...
By Carol Eggert & Raj M. Shah
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Trump called off top U.S. diplomat’s Pyongyang visit after belligerent letter from North Korea: report
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The White House last week canceled a planned trip to Pyongyang by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, just hours before the top U.S. diplomat was due to leave, after receiving a b...
By Duyeon Kim
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A void to fill: Champion of military gone from the national, international stage
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As a plane carrying a congressional delegation arrived in Iraq in August 2003, the aircraft was forced to make a corkscrew landing to avoid surface-to-air missiles. The lawmak...
By Richard Fontaine
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‘Resolute in his beliefs, even pugnacious’: McCain remembered as tough on military brass
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It didn’t matter how many stars were on their epaulets. It didn’t matter what heroic acts they had performed on the battlefield. When Sen. John McCain was questioning the nat...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Cancellation of Pompeo Trip Dashes Hopes in South Korea
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The past few days have been a roller-coaster ride for President Moon Jae-in of South Korea. On Thursday, the United States secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, announced that he ...
By Duyeon Kim
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Unified Korean Team, Victor on the Court, Tries to Win Hearts, Too
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When North and South Korea fielded a joint women’s ice hockey team for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the decision turned out to be more symbolic than practical: The team lo...
By Duyeon Kim
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What does North Korea want from the US?
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Less than three months after the pomp and ceremony of the Singapore summit, relations between the US and North Korea are stuttering and the point of contention is clear: Pyong...
By Duyeon Kim
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North Korea is still developing nuclear weapons, says IAEA
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North Korea is continuing to develop its nuclear weapons programme, according to a report by the UN atomic watchdog, raising questions over the country’s commitment to denucle...
By Duyeon Kim
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Researchers Find Transgender Veterans Are as Healthy as Their Cisgender Peers
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“The navy was something I always wanted to do, ever since I saw the Blue Angels as a little kid,” Chief Petty Officer Sarah Sardinha tells me. “I knew I wanted to work on figh...
By Kayla M. Williams
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South China Sea militarization part of larger Chinese challenge to U.S. power
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Tensions are rising in the South China Sea as China builds up military resources in contested waters and the United States Navy asserts its presence in the region, but experts...
By Daniel Kliman
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China: We Might Help Assad With the War in Syria
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China has long avoided entangling itself in direct military conflict abroad. But the Chinese ambassador to Syria last week suggested that China is considering doing just that ...
By Abigail Grace
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Why AI researchers shouldn’t turn their backs on the military
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More than 2,400 AI researchers recently signed a pledge promising not to build so-called autonomous weapons—systems that would decide on their own whom to kill. This follows G...
By Paul Scharre
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The General Is a Robot: Artificial Intelligence Goes to War
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N THE 1970 science fiction film “Colossus: The Forbin Project,” the United States decides to turn over control of its strategic arsenal to Colossus, a massive supercomputer. B...
By Paul Scharre
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Hackers Already Attacking Midterm Elections, Raising U.S. Alarms
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The U.S. midterm elections are at increasing risk of interference by foreign adversaries led by Russia, and cybersecurity experts warn the Trump administration isn’t adequatel...
By Kara Frederick & Michael Sulmeyer
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Why US talks with the Taliban are suddenly on the table
The United States has a lot invested in Afghanistan: a longer war than both world wars and its intervention in Vietnam combined, more than $2 trillion, and more than 2,370 ser...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump administration’s use of sanctions draws concern
February was a typically busy month for U.S. officials who announce government sanctions. One package of measures issued by the Treasury Department targeted North Korea, with ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Inside the Secret Taliban Talks to End America’s Longest War
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If the United States’ longest foreign war actually draws to a negotiated close, a significant amount of credit will go to a former U.S. Army colonel and a former senior U.S. d...
By Chris Kolenda
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Book Review Roundtable: America’s Hot and Cold Relationship with Its Counterterrorism Partners
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With many Americans — led by the current occupant of the White House — questioning the value of global partnerships and talking as though the United States would b...
By Stephen Tankel
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Book review: ‘Army of None: Autonomous weapons and the future of war’
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Paul Scharre’s new book on autonomous weapons begins with an account of an incident he experienced while on patrol as a US Army Ranger in Afghanistan in 2004. A young girl of...
By Paul Scharre
