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Can Macron Keep Trump From Shredding the Iran Deal?
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As if the upcoming nuclear summit with North Korea, the latest U.S. intervention in Syria, and President Trump’s controversial new national security team weren’t generating en...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Will our next war be fought among the stars?
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Sitting at the controls of a Boeing space-flight simulator, “docking” the company’s planned “Starliner” craft with an imaginary space station, you begin to understand why the ...
By Robert O. Work
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Work With the PentagonIs Silicon Valley going to war? In 2013, Amazon beat IBM for a contract to host the United States intelligence community’s data cloud. Microsoft now markets Azure Government S...
By Robert O. Work & Elsa B. Kania
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Bolton dealing to build an Arab military force in Syria
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President Donald Trump's newly minted national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo are among those spearheading a push to build a coalition...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria: US in talks over Arab force to replace American troops
The Trump administration is renewing an effort to replace US troops in Syria with an Arab force, but the proposal faces substantial obstacles and could potentially exacerbate ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Has Democracy Lost Its Appeal?
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The lead package of the May/June 2018 issue of Foreign Affairs is on democracy. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of experts for their take. As with...
By Richard Fontaine & Julianne Smith
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It looks like defense secretary James Mattis wants the record to show he urged Trump to be cautious with Syria air strikes
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US Defense Secretary James Mattis may have used leaks about strikes on Syria to distance himself from President Donald Trump and potentially negative fallout from Friday's US-...
By Nicholas Heras
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Clash of the Strategists
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At a time when President Trump’s National Security Strategy claims to be one of “principled realism that is guided by outcomes, not ideology,” three new books take different s...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Fears of a U.S.-Russia conflict recede as Trump, Moscow and Macron dial back the rhetoric
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BEIRUT — Fears that a major war could be imminent eased across the Middle East on Thursday after a flurry of tweets and statements by world leaders that suggested they are loo...
By Nicholas Heras
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Recent Russia Sanctions Designations: A Rundown
On Friday, April 6, the Treasury Department announced sanctions on a variety of Russian entities, including “seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies they own or control, 17 s...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Syria crisis: US concerned military strike would 'escalate out of control'
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James Mattis, the US defense secretary, has said Washington is still looking for evidence on who carried out Saturday’s chemical weapons attack in Damascus and that his main c...
By Nicholas Heras
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The Arctic as the next battleground? Don’t count on it
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In any conflict between China and the United States (and its allies), the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait are likely battlefields. But as tensions between Russia and the...
By Center for a New American Security
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Modernizing Army modernizationThe Army is at 'an inflection point,' and modernizing is job No. 1 and priority No. 1. But modernization will take every ounce of leaders' will and a massive culture change to...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Military Set for Cyber Attacks on Foreign InfrastructureAmerican military cyber warriors are ready to shut critical infrastructures in China and Russia during a future conflict by conducting cyber intrusions into their networks, ac...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Command and control: A fight for the future of government hackingFollowing years of effort and billions of dollars’ worth of research and planning, the nation finally has a fully operational force of cyberwarriors at U.S. Cyber Command. Yet...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Donald Trump v Vladimir Putin feud fires up in Syria
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Donald Trump's warning for Russia to "get ready" for US missiles hailing on its Syrian ally and Moscow's threat to shoot them down shook financial markets and underlines sinki...
By Richard Fontaine
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AP News Guide: Potential for escalation in Syria abounds
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BEIRUT — With the Middle East on edge and many fearing inadvertent triggering of a regional war, it’s easy to forget that not so long ago President Donald Trump shocked advise...
By Nicholas Heras
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US draws up options for attack on Syria
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The Pentagon is preparing options for an attack on Syria that US officials said could be bigger than the strike US president Donald Trump ordered against the Syrian regime las...
By Nicholas Heras
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Tensions Are Flaring between Washington and Moscow
President Donald Trump is taunting Russia as he makes clear that he has decided to strike the forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in retaliation for an alleged chemical ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Trump's space push needs cash to soar
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President Donald Trump has set ambitious goals for a revived American space program, but he'll need to follow through with dollars and hard decisions to make them reality. Sen...
By Adam Routh
