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ISIS-claimed attack on Americans in Syria renews criticism of Trump policy
Wednesday’s attack on U.S. forces in Syria has stoked fresh criticism over President Donald Trump’s claim that the so-called Islamic State has been defeated renewed debate ove...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
Autonomous weapons and the new laws of warThe Harop, a kamikaze drone, bolts from its launcher like a horse out of the gates. But it is not built for speed, nor for a jockey. Instead it just loiters, unsupervised, too...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
U.S. Increasingly Concerned About a Chinese Attack on TaiwanThe U.S. Defense Department is increasingly concerned that China’s growing military might could embolden it to launch a full-out attack on Taiwan. A new assessment of China’s...
By Elbridge Colby
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American Troops Die in Syria as Trump Team Squabbles
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Two U.S. service members and two Department of Defense personnel were killed in an explosion in Syria on Wednesday, the U.S. military confirmed, even as President Donald Trump...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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North Korean Negotiator Expected to Visit U.S. as Relations Thaw
In The News
North Korea and the U.S. appeared to be moving toward a rekindling of denuclearization talks, setting the stage for a widely expected second summit between the two country’s l...
By Duyeon Kim
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Technology & National Security
A Poker-Playing Robot Goes to Work for the PentagonIn 2017, a poker bot called Libratus made headlines when it roundly defeated four top human players at no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em. Now, Libratus’ technology is being adapted to t...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Trump and Putin Have Met Five Times. What Was Said Is a Mystery.
The first time they met was in Germany. President Trump took his interpreter’s notes afterward and ordered him not to disclose what he heard to anyone. Later that night, at a ...
By Victoria Nuland
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Competing Against Chinese Loans, U.S. Companies Face Long Odds in Africa
Growing up in suburban Ohio, Rajakumari Jandhyala never imagined she would end up in the oil business, much less on the front line of America’s global competition with China. ...
By Abigail Grace
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How Trump’s new chief of staff can impact the FY20 defense plan
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Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney’s takeover, at least temporarily, of the White House chief of staff position could have repercussions for defense spendi...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Why the Bitcoin bomb hoax signals a dangerous new era for cybersecurity
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School administrators, business owners and various other people across the U.S. and Canada received some strange emails on Thursday threatening them to pay $20,000 worth of Bi...
By Sam Dorshimer
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Technology & National Security
Project Maven Overseer Will Lead Pentagon’s New AI CenterLt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, who oversaw the Pentagon’s controversial Project Maven artificial intelligence project, will lead its new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, or JAIC...
By Paul Scharre
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Iran deal, Saudi murder: Turbulent year shakes up Middle East
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A murdered Saudi journalist. A scrapped Iran nuclear deal. The two events alone have undone years of diplomacy in the Middle East, testing old alliances and shaking up the reg...
By Nicholas Heras
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Turkey's Slap to the Face of America's Syria Policy
Press Note
Yesterday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the beginning of a military operation against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern and eastern Syria, crea...
By Nicholas Heras
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Asia Reassurance Initiative Act passed by US Senate will beef up engagement across Indo-Pacific
In The News
An Act that is seen as a significant indication of bipartisan support for deepening US engagement in the Indo-Pacific region is quietly making its way through Congress amid Wa...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Eric Sayers
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Trump's destabilizing "intervention" in Huawei CFO case
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In an interview with Reuters, President Trump suggested he might be willing to trade an arrested Chinese executive for a better trade deal. Such an offer, experts tell Axios, ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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No removal of border walls amid Turkish threats, but fear remains in Serekaniye
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The mixed town of Serekaniye (Ras al-Ain) was quiet on Thursday and, despite some rumors, there was no sign of Turkey removing any wall along its southern border with Syria. K...
By Nicholas Heras
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With eyes on China and Trump, Japan to invest in ‘aircraft carrier,’ F-35 fighters
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to give this island nation what effectively is its first aircraft carrier since World War II and will announce plans to purchase dozen...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Senate Bill Targets Chinese Economic EspionageA new Senate bill would expand the ability of American prosecutors to go after hackers abroad who attempt to steal trade secrets from U.S. firms, in the latest effort in Washi...
By Peter Harrell
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Technology & National Security
Washington must wake up to the abuse of software that killsDictators are using spyware to persecute dissidents and journalists at an alarming rate, while the foreign firms that sell these tools assure the public that everything is jus...
By Vance Serchuk
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Syrian Kurds: Threat of Turkish Action Impacts Anti-IS Fight
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Kurdish officials in Syria say any Turkish military action against them would affect their efforts in defeating Islamic State in its last stronghold in the country. The commen...
By Nicholas Heras
