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Technology & National Security
SINET ITSEF 2018The new National Security Strategy has declared that certain nations are strategic competitors. Russia, China, and other groups are using cyber as an extension of competition...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Genius Machines: The Next Decade of Artificial IntelligenceIn just the last five years, artificial intelligence has evolved from a staple of science fiction to a real-world magnet for large-scale investment, wonder, and hype. Increase...
By Elsa B. Kania & Paul Scharre
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Is the top general in Afghanistan in too deep?
For Army Gen. John "Mick" Nicholson, the war in Afghanistan is deeply personal. The top commander in charge of President Donald Trump's revamped strategy to “fight to win” has...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital Program
Performance Enhancers: From Battlefield to Playing FieldIn the modern era, discussions about performance-enhancing technologies tend to take place primarily in the context of sports. Indeed, it is within that context that we have c...
By Robert O. Work
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Trump Sees Sign of Progress in Possible North Korea Talks With U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump signaled he’s open to talks with North Korea, even as his advisers expressed skepticism that Kim Jong Un was serious about suspending his nuclear w...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump takes credit for Kim Jong-un’s sudden shift on talks
President Trump on Tuesday credited his campaign of maximum pressure — coupled with “great help” from China — for driving North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s sudden decision to ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Technology & National Security
Air Force Retiring Predator, the Drone That Changed the WorldThe Predator, the unmanned aerial vehicle that redefined the U.S. military’s combat tactics while executing thousands of missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other war zones ove...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Google is quietly providing AI technology for drone strike targeting projectGOOGLE HAS QUIETLY secured a contract to work on the Defense Department’s new algorithmic warfare initiative, providing assistance with a project to apply its artificial intel...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Data on US counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan doesn’t add up
KABUL, Afghanistan — Data the Pentagon issued last year to spotlight the success of operations against militant groups in Afghanistan were inaccurate, raising questions about ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Technology & National Security
Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for DronesGoogle has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firesto...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Robert Kaplan looks at global trends in latest book
In The News
Author Robert Kaplan joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century.' Listen to...
By Robert Kaplan
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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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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
