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ISIS may be dispersed, not destroyed
In November 2001, the Taliban abandoned Kabul without a fight, and a month later the U.S. triumphantly installed Hamid Karzai as the new Afghan president. But in reality, the ...
By Nicholas Heras
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A Russian Ghost Submarine, Its U.S. Pursuers and a Deadly New Cold War
The Krasnodar, a Russian attack submarine, left the coast of Libya in late May, headed east across the Mediterranean, then slipped undersea, quiet as a mouse. Then, it fired a...
By Center for a New American Security
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Kelly has widened the gap between the military and the rest of us
When White House Chief of Staff and retired Marine General John Kelly participated in a press conference on Thursday, he delivered an emotional, moving, and ultimately divisiv...
By Amy Schafer
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Kelly, in Defending Trump Call, Holds Up Military as an Elite Class
WASHINGTON — When John F. Kelly stood in the White House briefing room on Thursday and described how the remains of American troops killed in combat are shipped home and then ...
By Phillip Carter
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George W. Bush comes out of retirement to deliver a veiled rebuke of Trump
Former president George W. Bush on Thursday delivered a rare political speech in which he warned of threats to American democracy and a decay of civic engagement, a message th...
By Richard Fontaine
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US Secretary of State to tour Saudi Arabia and Qatar
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will arrive in Saudi Arabia on Friday for a visit that will highlight improved relations between Riyadh and Baghdad and elements of Donald ...
By Nicholas Heras
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After Raqqa, the U.S. sees Russia, Assad looming over remaining Syrian battlefield
Rapid advances by Russian- and Iranian-backed government forces in eastern Syria are thwarting the U.S. military’s hopes of pressing deeper into Islamic State territory after ...
By Nicholas Heras
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No Plans to Withdraw U.S. Troops Even After ISIS Defeat
Islamic State militants have lost almost their entire so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, but that doesn’t mean the United States will be withdrawing thousands of troops se...
By Nicholas Heras
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Armed Robots: US Lags Rhetoric, Russia
AUSA: American military leaders talk how artificial intelligence will change the face of war, but the unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) actually in development are much more mod...
By Paul Scharre
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Press Release: CNAS and 21st Century Fox Launch National Security Film & Television Series
In The News
Washington, October 18 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and 21st Century Fox (21CF) are pleased to announce the launch of the CNAS-21CF Film Series. The series ...
By Neal Urwitz
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How Donald Trump is negotiating like a hostage-taker
As a candidate, Donald Trump sold himself as a deal maker. As president, he's governing more as a hostage taker. Across an array of domestic and foreign challenges, Trump's go...
By Richard Fontaine
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How Bath Iron Works Stands To Benefit From The Navy’s Proposed Fleet Expansion
Congress is poised to embrace the Navy’s goal of expanding from its current fleet of 275 ships to 355. Doing so will be costly — the Congressional Budget Office has estimated ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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The defeat of ISIS in Raqqa tests U.S. commitment to Syrian Kurds
BEIRUT — U.S.-backed forces in Syria claimed Tuesday that they had full control of the Islamic State’s onetime capital of Raqqa, heralding an end to the militants’ presence in...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump’s Iran strategy: a bluster or long-term plan?
US president Donald Trump’s speech announcing a new US policy to counter the “fanatical regime” of Iran and its “sinister vision for the future” was not only short on detail b...
By Nicholas Heras
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Closer U.S.-India Ties Make Strategic Sense. What’s Holding Them Back?
When U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his new strategy for the Afghan war in August, he called on India to become more involved in Afghanistan’s security. Secretary of Def...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defeat of Islamic State in Raqqa may herald wider struggle for U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The defeat of Islamic State in its de facto capital Raqqa may only be the start of a wider struggle by the United States to contain any insurgency launc...
By Nicholas Heras
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Iraqi Forces Clash With Kurdish Fighters Near Kirkuk
Iraqi forces clashed with fighters from the Kurdish semiautonomous region in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk early Monday, Iraqi and Kurdish officials said, in a standoff over...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump Admin. Makes Gains on ISIS, but Lack of Syria Policy Raises Concern
WASHINGTON —The Trump administration’s efforts to recapture the ISIS-held Syrian city of Raqqa, the group’s de-facto capital, are making enough headway that the operation coul...
By Nicholas Heras
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UAS are everywhere, and it takes all types of technology to defeat them
The drone buzzed over U.S. ground troops in southern Syria. It was big, about the size of a Predator, and it was armed. Without warning, it fired. The munition “hit dirt,” a P...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump de-certifies Iran nuclear deal, announces more sanctions against Iran
WASHINGTON — President Trump unveiled a sweeping and aggressive new policy toward Iran on Friday, saying he will not re-certify the nuclear deal signed in 2015 and calling for...
By Ilan Goldenberg
