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Navy Buys Lots More Fighters; Ships Up Slightly But 355 Not In Sight
PENTAGON: The U.S. Navy’s budget is growing by over $12 billion in 2019, and more ships are on their way – but not enough to get to the hoped-for 355-ship fleet any time befor...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Britain’s BFF unconvinced by its post-Brexit vision
WASHINGTON — If the U.K. wants to woo America with tech, it needs to get its story straight. Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who departs for Silicon Valley Tuesday, is the latest i...
By Julianne Smith
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National Security Human Capital Program
Trump Proposes 10% Bump for the Pentagon — Then Four Flat YearsThe Trump administration is proposing $3.6 trillion in Pentagon spending over the next five years, a budget that defense officials said positions the military to better compet...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
As China Marches Forward on A.I., the White House Is SilentSAN FRANCISCO — In July, China unveiled a plan to become the world leader in artificial intelligence and create an industry worth $150 billion to its economy by 2030. To techn...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
The Co-Inventor of BlackBerry Is Building Canada’s Quantum Brain TrustAfter years of watching his brand wither during the iPhone era, Lazaridis stepped down as the company’s co-chief executive officer in 2012 and devoted most of his energy to re...
By Elsa B. Kania
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National Security Human Capital Program
White House targets VA’s deputy secretary as ‘a warning shot’ to agency’s leaderThe White House wants to remove the Department of Veterans Affairs’ second-in-command as a “warning shot” to VA Secretary David Shulkin, an Obama-era holdover who has frustrat...
By Phillip Carter
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Syrian Rebels Seek Relevance by Joining Turkey's Offensive
Col. Moataz Raslan once flew MiG jets for the Syrian air force, until he defected to join rebel ranks fighting to oust President Bashar Assad. Today, he is a commander fightin...
By Nicholas Heras
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Russia Is Still Exploiting America's Divisions
Russian meddling in American democracy didn’t start with Donald Trump’s election to the presidency, and, new reporting makes clear, it hasn’t ended with his inauguration. The ...
By Victoria Nuland
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US Defense Secretary says attacks on Afrin distract Kurds from fight against Islamic State
Defense Secretary James Mattis on Sunday called the attacks by Turkey on Afrin, launched on 20 January, ‘a distraction’ and said that the Kurds inside the US-backed Syrian Dem...
By Nicholas Heras
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Budget a major boost for US military but raises deficit fears
WASHINGTON - The United States' two-year federal spending agreement passed in the early hours of Friday (Feb 9) in Washington contains the steepest increase in defence spendin...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Budget deal clears the way for $1.4 trillion, two-year military funding plan
WASHINGTON – An agreement reached in the midst of a short-lived federal government shutdown Friday will let lawmakers move forward on a plan to bust budget caps for a $1.4 tri...
By Lauren Fish
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China’s massive investment in artificial intelligence has an insidious downsideBEIJING—In a gleaming high-rise here in northern Beijing's Haidian district, two hardware jocks in their 20s are testing new computer chips that might someday make smartphones...
By Elsa B. Kania
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At the brink of shutdown drama, potential two-year military funding deal hangs in balance
WASHINGTON – As the clock ticked closer to a government shutdown Friday, lawmakers said they were nearing a deal on a massive $1.4 trillion, two-year defense budget plan. The ...
By Lauren Fish
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Air strikes batter Syria rebel enclave for fifth day
Fresh bombardment hit the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Friday, AFP correspondents reported, the fifth straight day of a bombing campaign that has killed more than...
By Nicholas Heras
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US coalition conducts airstrikes against Syrian regime troops
The US coalition in Syria conducted airstrikes against pro-Assad regime forces on Wednesday, in a fresh escalation between the two sides. In a statement released on Wednesday ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Pentagon plays down Russian influence in Syria after clash with US-backed forces he
US Defense Secretary James Mattis today cast strong doubts on Russian influence over Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria following a bloody clash with US-backed forces. The reti...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
The Co-Inventor of BlackBerry Is Building Canada’s Quantum Brain TrustIt’s early days for quantum computers, the still mostly theoretical subatomic processors so powerful they can make our fastest supercomputer look like an abacus. Mike Lazaridi...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Politics, Policy, and PyeongChang 2018: Interview with Dr. Patrick Cronin
These first-Wednesday monthly roundtables draw members and supporters from policy, corporate, media, academe, and the United Nations to discuss and debate Korea’s leadership, ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Tillerson travels to Middle East to talk post-IS stability
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey next week, on a trip focused on stabilization and reconstruction after t...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump to Speed Up U.S. Arms Sales by Reducing Oversight, Sources Say
The White House is pushing to implement as early as March a plan that would make it easier to sell some weapons to foreign partners through a process some say eliminates key r...
By Jim Townsend