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US ‘Gets Its Ass Handed To It’ In Wargames: Here’s A $24 Billion Fix
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The US keeps losing, hard, in simulated wars with Russia and China. Bases burn. Warships sink. But we could fix the problem for about $24 billion a year, one well-connected ex...
By Robert O. Work
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CNAS Welcomes Iskander Rehman as Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Security Program
Washington, March 6, 2019 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Dr. Iskander Rehman has joined the Center as an Adjunct Senior Fellow in ...
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Activity at North Korean launch site sours Trump’s post-Hanoi honeymoon with Kim
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When President Trump abruptly walked away last week from a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, he emphasized that it was not an angry walk, “it was a very fr...
By Duyeon Kim
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Technology & National Security
Fear & Loathing In AI: How The Army Triggered Fears Of Killer RobotsThe Army rolled out its ATLAS targeting AI so clumsily that it blindsided the Pentagon’s own Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and inspired headlines about “AI-powered kill...
By Paul Scharre
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'Take it seriously': North Korea nuclear threat looms over northern Australia
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North Korea publicly painted a nuclear target on Australia in April 2017. Kim Jong-un's regime seized on the fact that a contingent of US marines is now in a permanent, rotati...
By David Asher
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U.S.-Backed Forces Are Holding 2,000 Suspected ISIS Fighters in Syria
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U.S.-backed forces in Syria are holding more than 2,000 suspected Islamic State fighters, U.S. defense officials said, at least double previous estimates and an obstacle to Tr...
By Nicholas Heras
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Europe and the U.S. are at odds over Iran. Cuba may be next.
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Since President Trump’s May announcement that the United States will pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, Europe has been stuck in the middle of th...
By Peter Harrell
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Military decisions are 'key catalysts' in Venezuela: Rachel Ziemba
Rachel Ziemba of Ziemba Insights says Venezuela's opposition is very much a "government-in-waiting." She also discusses the investment case for Nigeria. Watch the full conver...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Over 200 ISIS prisoners ‘not involved in crimes’ released in northern Syria
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The Democratic Autonomous Administration (DAA) of North and East Syria recently announced the release of 283 prisoners who were members of the Islamic State but “not involved”...
By Nicholas Heras
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Trump’s Huawei ban will hit rural US carriers the hardest as replacing equipment will cost ‘millions’It took Jim Kail’s telecommunications company LHTC Broadband nearly five years to equip almost 1,000 customers in the rural township of South Canaan, Pennsylvania, with high-s...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Trump administration quietly corrects its diplomatic slight of the E.U.
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On Monday, two months after news broke that Washington had downgraded the diplomatic status of the European Union mission to the United States, the U.S. ambassador to the Euro...
By Rachel Rizzo
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US shifts weapons from Iraq to Syria
The Pentagon rerouted millions of dollars’ worth of weapons and vehicles from Iraq to Syria in the second half of 2018, Al-Monitor has learned, as US-backed forces cornered th...
By Nicholas Heras
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China sets up 5G stations in TibetChina has established the first set of three 5G stations in the Tibet region bordering India. The purpose, it is said, was to enhance communication to serve the local populati...
By Elsa B. Kania
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How will Netanyahu’s legal woes affect U.S.-Israeli relations and peace efforts?
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Even as likely indictments hang over Benjamin Netanyahu and imperil his political career, the embattled Israeli prime minister is receiving the enthusiastic endorsement of his...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Technology & National Security
In the Middle East, a booming market for spy technologyAs weapons sales to Gulf countries soar, defense companies flocked to last month’s bi-annual International Defense Exhibition in Abu Dhabi. But amid the usual displays of mach...
By Kara Frederick
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Technology & National Security
US Military Changing ‘Killing Machine’ Robo-tank Program After ControversyIt was a frightening and dramatic headline: “The US Army Wants to Turn Tanks Into AI-Powered Killing Machines.” The story, published this week in Quartz, details the new Advan...
By Michael Horowitz
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After U.S.-North Korea nuclear summit fails, all sides scramble to salvage the talks despite major differences
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Within hours of an abruptly canceled lunch and a failed summit, desperate efforts were launched to rebuild a dialogue between the United States and North Korea. But as the d...
By Duyeon Kim
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Abrupt end to Trump-Kim summit prompts sighs of relief, questions about what's next
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The news that President Donald Trump walked away from negotiations with North Korea early and empty-handed led many experts and lawmakers to heave sighs of relief, even as the...
By Duyeon Kim
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UN report suggests Turkish-backed groups commit war crimes in Afrin
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A new report the United Nations ’Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria released on Thursday suggests armed groups in Afrin are guilty of war crimes. “The Co...
By Nicholas Heras
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In a first for North Korea’s secretive leader, Kim Jong Un takes a question from a foreign journalist
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In a 20-second exchange on Wednesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did something he’s never had to as the head of the world’s most closed society: Answer a question from a ...
By Duyeon Kim
