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Border deployment puts Mattis and the military in political crosshairs
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The White House’s decision to send more than 5,200 active-duty troops to the border with Mexico a week before the midterm elections has put the American military and Defense S...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Midterm Elections: Implications for Defense Spending
Press Note
With the U.S. mid-term elections coming up on November 6, it’s a good time to consider how possible changes in Congress’s composition may impact the Department of Defense. As ...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Politicos are pushing to rebuild Tyndall, but should the Air Force bother?
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The Trump administration has vowed to rebuild Tyndall Air Base, the hurricane-ravaged home of the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor training fleet, though it seems the Air Force faces a...
By Susanna V. Blume
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As Israel Targets Iran in Syria, U.S. Officials Warn of Reprisals
Israel has been conducting an aggressive military campaign across Syria against Iran-backed militia groups, an effort that has been encouraged by the White House but aroused t...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump faces complaints that new Iran sanctions are too weak
A battle is brewing between the Trump administration and some of the president’s biggest supporters in Congress who are concerned that sanctions to be re-imposed on Iran early...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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China rattles Washington’s tech debates
In The News
A common thread is running through nearly every tech debate in Washington these days: fear that an ambitious China is poised to win the next wave of technology. The worry that...
By Ely Ratner
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Military issues largely MIA on the campaign trail
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For months, President Donald Trump’s campaign trail speeches have included the same version of the same applause line on national security. “Our military will soon be more po...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Trump wants to ditch a Cold War treaty that reduced nuclear weapons — that's a bad move, says the Soviet leader who signed it
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the politician who led Soviet Union in its final days, is not personally upset about President Donald Trump's intention to withdraw from the landmark Interm...
By Jim Townsend
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As NATO gets ready for its biggest military exercise in years, things are heating up closer to Russia
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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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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
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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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Khashoggi crisis may test Saudi PIF's expansion ambitions
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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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Technology & National Security
Engineering Supersoldiers: Boost in Lethality May Come From WithinWhen 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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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting ElectionsThe 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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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
