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Technology & National Security
Russia Will Be Back in 2018, Cyber Experts WarnsWith the 2018 midterms on the horizon, America’s electoral system needs to be ready to fend off the kind of online attacks that besieged it during the 2016 election, cybersecu...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Nuclear policy of the Russian Federation
Russia published its most recent military doctrine in 2014. Although it discusses nuclear weapons and use, it is not meant to be the last word on Russian nuclear policy. What ...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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‘The Return of Marco Polo’s World’ Review: The Empires Strike Back
Most journalists of my generation, old enough to have been shaped by the 1960s, gravitated in their youth to the great struggles at home over race and poverty rather than to f...
By Robert Kaplan
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Trump: US will not tolerate the atrocities of the Assad regime
With the reported death toll in Eastern Ghouta exceeding 670 since the air bombardment started on February 13, the US administration upped the ante on Friday, threatening the ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump administration weighed sanctions against major Chinese banks tied to North KoreasWhen President Trump announced new sanctions against North Korea last week, he called them the “strongest . . . we have ever put on a country.” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuch...
By Peter Harrell
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
The New Arms Race in AIFour years ago, planners at the Pentagon reviewed estimates of China’s growing military investments with what one called a “palpable sense of alarm.” China, the planners deter...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The US is Accelerating Development of Its Own ‘Invincible’ Hypersonic Weaponsw
Last spring, representatives from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, came to the office of then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work and laid out some ha...
By Robert O. Work
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The Controversy Over Trump And Russia Sanctions Isn’t Going Away
The Trump administration has yet to prove it is fully complying with new Russian sanctions legislation just over one month after the State Department sparked a wave of critici...
By Peter Harrell
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Can Jared Kushner navigate Middle East peace without top secret clearance?il
Kushner, who along with being the son-in-law of President Donald Trump carries the titles of assistant to the president, senior adviser to the president and director of the Of...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Technology & National Security
Trump has done nothing to stop Russia from meddling in the 2018 midtermsPresident Donald Trump has barely acknowledged that Russians meddled in the 2016 presidential election, and now it looks like he’s doing nothing to prevent Moscow from interfe...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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First Combat Laser For Navy Warship: Lockheed HELIOS
“This is a very big deal,” said Mark Gunzinger of the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments, a longtime advocate of lasers. “It is clear evidence of the progress th...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Trump’s Spy Chief Nominee to Face Grilling Over Russia Responses
President Donald Trump’s departing military cyber chief stunned lawmakers this week when he said he was never asked by the White House to counter ongoing Russian efforts to in...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Stranger Than Science Fiction: The Future for Digital DictatorshipsWhile Americans and Europeans debate whether the internet and social media are undermining democracy, a big question for many Chinese is whether cutting-edge technology streng...
By Elsa B. Kania
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UN report: North Korea ties to Syria
In The News
North Korea has been sending chemical weapons supplies to Syria, according to an unreleased UN report. CNAS senior fellow Dr. Patrick Cronin joins The Situation Room ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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The General and the Ambassador: A Conversation
A podcast series by the American Academy of Diplomacy, the General and the Ambassador: A Conversation brings together outstanding diplomatic and military collaborators to reco...
By Victoria Nuland
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Ghouta rebels await assault as Syrian regime bombardment continuesh
TUNIS - Thousands of heavily armed rebels in Eastern Ghouta prepared for what looks to be an inevitable assault by Syrian regime troops massing on the suburb’s borders. Lodged...
By Nicholas Heras
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War vs. diplomacy: Did the Olympics help resolve the North Korea nuclear standoff? Sort of.
The Winter Games concluded this month with a measly 23 medals for the U.S. team, the fewest since 1998. But dramatic news developed on the diplomatic front: North Korea sent a...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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U.S. tries to nail down priorities in Syria as civilian carnage continues
The past few weeks have been especially deadly for civilians in Syria, with Russian-backed regime forces pummeling the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta. On Tuesday, a five...
By Nicholas Heras
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An attack on North Korea would be massive — and massively stupid
In response to worries that it is planning a “bloody nose” strike on North Korea, the Trump administration has been offering an odd reassurance. Any attack on the regime of Ki...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Syria’s fracturing conflict escalates as Russia and Iran face higher costs
TUNIS - Syria’s northern theatre illustrates the risks involved in the fracturing of the 7-year-old conflict that has defied all international attempts to stop the bloodshed. ...
By Nicholas Heras
