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Legal Scholars, Software Engineers Revolt Against War Robots
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WASHINGTON: The debate over the use of artificial intelligence in warfare is heating up, with Google employees protesting their company’s Pentagon contracts, South Koreans pro...
By Paul Scharre
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US approves $1.3bn arms sale to Saudi including howitzers
The US government announced on Thursday its approval of a $1.3 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia providing a full howitzer artillery system, which according to experts would b...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria: What Trump is signaling to Mideast allies and foes about US priorities
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APRIL 5, 2018 —Late last year Secretary of Defense James Mattis laid out the details of a plan that would see the United States remaining in Syria well into the future – after...
By Nicholas Heras
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U.S. Sanctions Billionaire Deripaska and Other Russian Oligarchs
The Trump administration sanctioned seven Russian tycoons, 12 companies and 17 senior government officials including key allies of President Vladimir Putin under provisions of...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Trump decides to keep US troops in Syria for now, signaling Pentagon win
U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to keep U.S. troops in Syria, the White House announced, an apparent win for military commanders who warned against drawing down the Am...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump administration to impose fresh sanctions against Russia
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The United States is expected to impose additional sanctions against Russia by Friday, according to U.S. officials. The sanctions are economic and designed to target oligarchs...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Ex-Google Executive Opens a School for AI, with China's Help
WHEN CHINA’S GOVERNMENT said last summer it intends to surpass the US and lead the world in artificial intelligence by 2030, skeptics pointed to a major problem. Despite gobs ...
By Elsa B. Kania & Robert O. Work
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White House says anti-IS fight in Syria ‘coming to rapid end’
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WASHINGTON — A day after President Donald Trump said he wanted to bring US troops home from Syria, the White House announced that the US-led coalition will complete its missio...
By Nicholas Heras
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Game of Drones: China Ramps up Development to Challenge U.S. Dominance
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One of China’s top drone engineers says the country’s military drone program has entered a new phase of development as China attempts to close the gap in America’s dominance o...
By Paul Scharre
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The Next NSA Chief is More Used to Cyberwar than Spy Games
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AFTER SAILING THROUGH two friendly Senate hearings—one so uncontroversial that only six senators tops bothered to even show up at any given point in the hour—Lieutenant Genera...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Google Workers Urge C.E.O. to Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
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WASHINGTON — Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company’s involvement in a Pentagon program that uses art...
By Paul Scharre
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The Navy's Secret Wish: Bring Back the Old F-14 Tomcat from the Dead?
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The F-35C was never designed to be an air superiority fighter. Indeed, naval planners in the mid-1990s wanted the JSF to be a strike-oriented aircraft with only a 6.5G airfram...
By Robert O. Work
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Army Rolling Ahead With Manned-Unmanned Convoys
The Army is moving forward with efforts to develop an autonomous convoy capability that could help troops transport supplies, equipment and other resources more efficiently an...
By Paul Scharre
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Counter-IS officials temper Trump’s rush to pull out of Syria
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US officials in charge of the fight against the Islamic State (IS) warned today that the American-led coalition’s hard-fought gains could yet be reversed as President Donald T...
By Nicholas Heras
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Huawei flourishes despite perennial hurdles in US
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Huawei is the manifestation of everything the US fears and loathes about China: a high-tech giant, founded by a former army officer, that it believes has ties to the Communist...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Abe to meet Trump over fears Japan is being sidelined on North Korea talks
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could face some tense moments when he meets with President Trump this month at Mar-a-Lago, reflecting rising fears back home that Tokyo has ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Army hopes new units will help break Afghanistan stalemate
FORT POLK, La. — Seventeen years in the infantry have turned Army 1st Sgt. Shaun Morgan into a hard-charging grunt, but the veteran of five combat tours who recently deployed ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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US, Turkey on collision course in Syria's Manbij
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The United States and Turkey are on a collision course in northern Syria, threatening to ignite a dangerous new phase in the Syrian civil war, undermine the fight against the ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria's army vows to finish off last rebels outside Damascus
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Syria's army promised Saturday to finish off fighters in the final opposition holdout of devastated Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus after a penultimate pocket was declared "em...
By Nicholas Heras
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China's Social Credit System seeks to assign citizens scores, engineer social behaviour
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Chinese authorities claim they have banned more than 7 million people deemed "untrustworthy" from boarding flights, and nearly 3 million others from riding on high-speed train...
By Elsa B. Kania
