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We'll take Pompeo over Tillerson, frustrated diplomats say
Mike Pompeo may have a partisan reputation, hawkish instincts and little diplomatic experience, but morale at the State Department is so low that many career diplomats would b...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Tillerson under pressure after White House plan leaks
Rex Tillerson’s days at the State Department appear to be numbered. Speculation about Tillerson’s future as secretary of State reached a fever pitch on Thursday after multip...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Technology & National Security
U.S. Is Losing to Russia and China in War for Artificial Intelligence, Report SaysRussia and China want to revolutionize their forces with weaponized artificial intelligence, a field in which the U.S. risks falling behind, according to a new reportreleased ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
China racing for AI military edge over U.S.: reportWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A research arm of the U.S. intelligence community just wrapped up a competition to see who could develop the best facial recognition technology. The cha...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
World power 'threatened' by Chinese AIThe economic and military balance of world power could be altered as China rushes to develop artificial intelligence technology, a US think tank has warned. The report cites e...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Has Trump Ditched the Kurdish Fighters Who Defeated ISIS? Maybe Not.
ERBIL, Iraq—After U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, talked on the phone last Friday, Erdogan’s foreign minister announced the Amer...
By Nicholas Heras
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Navy Defends LCS, Positioning It For Frigate Competition
WASHINGTON: Even as the Navy solicits designs for its future frigate, it is ardently defending its current Littoral Combat Ship. A memo obtained by Breaking Defense lists abou...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Technology & National Security
Security firm was front for advanced Chinese hacking operation, Feds sayThree men who worked for an Internet security firm in China have been indicted on federal charges for hacking into at least three multinational corporations. The malware they ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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National Security Human Capital Program
Highest-ranking female officer in Afghanistan would rather talk about war than genderKABUL, Afghanistan — Sitting in her office at NATO’s Resolute Support headquarters one recent afternoon, Army Maj. Gen. Robin Fontes played down the history she made this summ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Technology & National Security
How the Pentagon is preparing for the coming drone warsMore than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary device...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump's Asia Trip: Personal Diplomacy or U.S. Diplomacy
President Trump’s five-country trip to Asia in early November provided an opportunity for Trump to address some important issues for the United States, specifically strategies...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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U.S. moves toward open-ended presence in Syria after Islamic State is routed
The Trump administration is expanding its goals in Syria beyond routing the Islamic State to include a political settlement of the country’s civil war, a daunting and potentia...
By Nicholas Heras
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Lessons from Zapad — jamming, NATO and the future of Belarus
WASHINGTON — The biannual Zapad military exercise, jointly run by Russia and Belarus, was closely watched this September by Western nations. And while there were some concerns...
By Jim Townsend
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Where Washington’s North Korea policy goes from here
Donald Trump’s first ten months have been whirlwind for North Korea watchers. From “fire and fury” to “maybe someday he will be my friend”, it’s been an unusual time to have a...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Technology & National Security
Legal Limbo Leaves Killer Robots Off-LeashThe 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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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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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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Technology & National Security
Industry Developing New Social Media Simulation Tools for Military AnalystsAs 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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Technology & National Security
Russia to the United Nations: Don’t Try to Stop Us From Building Killer RobotsArms 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