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Trump cedes Syrian postwar planning to Putin
WASHINGTON — Six months after President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike against a Syrian government airbase, an act his aides said would give the U.S. renewed leverage acros...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Legal Limbo Leaves Killer Robots Off-Leash
The UN’s Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) met last week to discuss lethal autonomous weapons systems. But while most member states ...
By Paul Scharre
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Donald Trump returns North Korea to US list of terrorism sponsors
Donald Trump has put North Korea back on a US list of “state sponsors of terrorism” after almost a decade, as his administration intensifies efforts to convince Pyongyang to a...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Industry Developing New Social Media Simulation Tools for Military Analysts
As Black Hawk helicopters transported Navy SEALs to Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011, an IT consultant working late into the evening heard the spinn...
By Paul Scharre
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U.S. sanctions 13 Chinese and North Korean organizations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 13 Chinese and North Korean organizations Washington accused of helping evade nuclear restrictions aga...
By Peter Harrell
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Russia to the United Nations: Don’t Try to Stop Us From Building Killer Robots
Arms control advocates had reason for hope when scores of countries met at the United Nations in Geneva last week to discuss the future of lethal autonomous weapons systems, o...
By Paul Scharre
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China Challenges Nvidia's Hold on Artificial Intelligence Chips
IN JULY, CHINA’S government issued a sweeping new strategy with a striking aim: draw level with the US in artificial intelligence technology within three years, and become the...
By Elsa B. Kania
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US-backed Forces Deny They Allowed IS Fighters to Evacuate Raqqa
Officials of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are dismissing claims they brokered a covert deal with the Islamic State last month to allow safe passage to hundre...
By Nicholas Heras
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Chinese drones may soon swarm the market — and that could be very bad for the US
China showed off some of its latest drone models and projects at this year's Dubai Airshow and it looks like many spectators were interested. China has seen a dramatic increas...
By Paul Scharre
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A Dirty Word In The U.S., 'Automation' Is A Buzzword In China
Gerry Wong graduated from MIT with his bachelor's degree, his master's degree and his Ph.D, but in 2000 he left the United States and went home to China start a telecom equipm...
By Gregory C. Allen
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'It's a Mistake to Underestimate China'
BEIJING—At the recent APEC CEO Summit in Vietnam, President Donald Trump said the United States would refocus its existing development efforts in Asia toward infrastructure in...
By Daniel Kliman
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Trump said he would strike one-on-one trade deals. That’s not happening.
As he traveled across Asia, President Trump touted a flurry of multibillion-dollar military sales and one-off business deals with nations he visited. Upon his return to the Wh...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Industry Can Build 355 Ships, But Which Ones?
WASHINGTON: Sure, American industry can build the 355-ship fleet both Trump and the admirals want, three former Navy Secretaries said today. We can even build it a lot faster ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Navy Is Still Searching For A Plan To Reach A 355-Ship Fleet
n 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump made the idea of building up a 350-ship Navy a cornerstone of his stump speech, complaining that the U.S. military was failing...
By Jerry Hendrix
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CNAS Press Note: Governmental Meetings on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
Press Note
Washington, November 14 – This week member states begin discussions at the United Nations on lethal autonomous weapons systems – weapons that would choose their own targets. P...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: What Matters in the New NDAA?
Press Note
Washington, November 14 – With the House and Senate Armed Services committees having finalized the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, Center for a New American Security ...
By Susanna V. Blume
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CNAS Commentary: Responding to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Press Note
Washington, November 13 – The past week has seen the beginning of a U.S. response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – a trillion-dollar infrastructure play by Beijing ...
By Daniel Kliman & Harry Krejsa
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President Trump Visits Asia
On this edition of Encounter, Walter Lohman, Director of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation and Patrick Cronin, Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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The Navy’s Triple-Carrier Pacific Deployment Was an Accident, Not a Power Play
The greatest concentration of American naval power in a decade is an accident of scheduling and navigation, according to the U.S. Navy. But the coincidental convergence of thr...
By Jerry Hendrix
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The US Shot Down a Mysterious Enemy Drone Over Syria
A US Air Force F-15 jet fighter has shot down a large, armed drone that attacked pro-US forces near At Tanf, a strategic town in southeastern Syria near the border with Iraq. ...
By Paul Scharre
