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Iraq PM visits White House amid debate over post-Mosul strategy
As Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visits Washington and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hosts some 68 counterparts for a counter-Islamic State (IS) summit in Washington...
By Nicholas Heras
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Chinese missile-test sites appear to mirror US bases in JapanAs worrisome as North Korea’s missile capability has become, defense experts say China is a more potent threat to U.S. interests in Asia, with Beijing capable of showering bas...
By CDR Thomas Shugart, USN
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National Security Human Capital Program
VA Urged To Take Advantage Of Momentum And Keep Reforming ItselfThe combination of a GOP controlled government and a secretary held over from the Obama administration may have created an opportunity for progress at the troubled Department ...
By Phillip Carter
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A Test for Tillerson, and for U.S. Strategy on ISIS
If President Trump has a secret plan to defeat the Islamic State, as he promised during the presidential campaign, then his international allies in that fight are hoping to ge...
By Julianne Smith
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Why experts think Rex Tillerson skipping a NATO summit is "an unmitigated disaster"
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will skip an April meeting of NATO foreign ministers to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, giving a cold shoulder to many o...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Tillerson plan to skip NATO, visit Russia puts allies on edge
The State Department scrambled Tuesday to suggest new dates for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to attend a meeting of NATO foreign ministers after his plan to skip the annua...
By Julianne Smith
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National Security Human Capital Program
Watchdog Criticizes Veterans Affairs’ Suicide HotlineThe Department of Veterans Affairs’ suicide crisis hotline is understaffed, poorly supervised and sometimes leaves veterans on hold so long that they simply hang up, according...
By Phillip Carter
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How the US Military Could Spend $54 Billion
Last Thursday, President Trump released his first budget proposal, outlining billions of dollars in cuts from programs designed to protect the environment, help the poor, and ...
By Paul Scharre & Adam Routh
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Technology & National Security
SES modernization plan should include risks, on and off ramps, roles for millennialsWould you nominate Edward Snowden as Employee of the Month? The answer might be yes if you’re part of the future federal workforce, and that’s something current senior executi...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Trump Shifting Authority Over Military Operations Back to Pentagon
President Trump is shifting more authority over military operations to the Pentagon, according to White House officials, reversing what his aides and some generals say was a t...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Why Strategies Disappoint—and How to Fix Them
It’s a new administration, which means it is time for a new round of national security documents. From the National Security Strategy on down, over the next months, the White ...
By Michèle Flournoy, Richard Fontaine & Shawn Brimley
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National Security Human Capital Program
The 'old Corps' under siege. The photo scandal and the big changes coming soon.The Marine Corps has always struggled with change. A decade ago, when the Corps adopted new desert boots and the digital-pattern, wash-and-wear camouflage uniforms, many ol...
By Amy Schafer
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Russia, China making gains on US military power
Russia and China are increasingly challenging the military superiority that the United States has held since the early 1990s. Since the end of the Cold War, America’s naval, a...
By Harry Krejsa
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U.S. Says Military Strike Is Among Its North Korea Options
President Donald Trump and his top diplomat hardened the U.S. approach to North Korea, ruling out direct talks and raising the option of a pre-emptive strike in statements tha...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Deep State
The "deep state," an alleged shadowy network of powerful entrenched federal and military interests, has increasingly become the focus of Republicans who accuse such forces of ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump Offers No Apology for Claim on British Spying
President Trump provoked a rare public dispute with America’s closest ally on Friday after his White House aired an explosive and unsubstantiated claim that Britain’s spy agen...
By Julianne Smith
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Technology & National Security
The Coming Battle Over SurveillanceAs mystery continues to swirl around the February resignation of General Mike Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, an already-contentious government progr...
By Adam Klein
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The cost of America's increasingly expensive military fighter jets
In late February, President Donald Trump announced a $54 billion increase in military spending. This week, he revealed where he's going to get the money from. On the chopping ...
By Steven Kosiak
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Trump drags key foreign allies into controversy over unproven wiretap claims
President Trump’s unproven allegation that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower in New York ahead of the election blazed a new path of political disruption Friday as he drag...
By Julianne Smith
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Rex Tillerson’s Dangerous Silence
Not long after President Obama’s second inauguration, I walked down 23rd Street in Foggy Bottom toward my new office in the State Department. I was a couple of days from start...
By Ilan Goldenberg