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Leading AI researchers vow to not develop autonomous weaponsIn a letter published online, 2,400 researchers in 36 countries joined 160 organizations in calling for a global ban on lethal autonomous weapons. Such systems pose a grave th...
By Paul Scharre
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As Russians describe ‘verbal agreements’ at summit, U.S. officials scramble for clarity
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Two days after President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials offered a string of assertions about what the two leaders had achieved. “Impo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Higher NATO Defense Spending May Not Help U.S. Contractors
President Donald Trump emerged from the NATO summit in Brussels touting a renewed commitment from members to increase their defense spending, but U.S. defense firms might want...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Congress Moves to Force Trump to Come Clean on North Korea Talks
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President Donald Trump is “gaslighting” the planet about North Korea’s nukes, according to a well-connected analyst. So Congress is moving on multiple fronts to force the Whit...
By Abigail Grace
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After being called ‘aggressive’ by Trump, Montenegro insists it’s a friend to America
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Earlier this week, President Trump identified a seemingly unlikely threat to world security: Montenegro, a tiny Balkan country of just over 600,000 people. Montenegrins, Trump...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Syrian army raises flag above city considered as birthplace of uprising against Assad
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Syrian government forces hoisted their red, black and white flag as they took control of the southern city of Daraa on Thursday, quashing a rebellion that began there in 2011 ...
By Nicholas Heras
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What’s Missing From Kim Jong Un’s ‘Very Nice Note’ to Trump
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Donald Trump called it “a very nice note.” And it is super-nice! In the letter that the president published on Twitter on Thursday, Kim Jong Un refers to Trump as “Your Excell...
By Duyeon Kim
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The Energy 202: Trump slammed Merkel over a pipeline from Russia. But with Putin, he demurred.
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President Trump said a number of things at his press conference Monday alongside Russian leader Vladimir Putin that few thought a U.S. commander in chief would ever say. Trump...
By Edoardo Saravalle
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Back to 1648: The Treaty of Westphalia
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If the current global order is being upended, what will replace it? We are getting a clue in the actions of western leaders and their allies, whose posture suggests a turn bac...
By Richard Fontaine
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America’s Moment of Truth With North Korea Is Coming
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One eight-word assumption underlies American and South Korean negotiations with Kim Jong Un: “North Korea will give up its nuclear weapons.” That’s what the analyst Cheon Seon...
By Duyeon Kim
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Technology & National Security
Report: The U.S. is unprepared for the AI futureAdvances in artificial intelligence are supercharging propaganda, espionage, and cybercrime, threatening "the end of truth," says a new report from the Center for a New Americ...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Welcomes Kayla Williams as Director of the Military, Veterans and Society ProgramWashington, DC July 12, 2018 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce today that Kayla M. Williams is joining CNAS as the new Director of the Mil...
By Madeline Christian
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Trump has wanted a summit with Putin for months. He finally got it.
It’s official: President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 17 days — making America’s allies even more nervous about the growing closeness betwee...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Europeans Are Bracing Themselves For A Possible Trump–Putin Meeting
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European governments, already nervous for what next month’s NATO summit could hold, have been thrown for yet another loop: President Donald Trump is reportedly set to meet wit...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Why does the Pentagon keep getting surprised by Trump?
For much of his presidency, Donald Trump has backed the military, promising to support them as much as possible. But over the past two weeks, it seems that his administration ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Technology & National Security
In Army of None, a field guide to the coming world of autonomous warfareThe Silicon Valley-military industrial complex is increasingly in the crosshairs of artificial intelligence engineers. A few weeks ago, Google was reported to be backing out ...
By Paul Scharre
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Mattis takes aim at China military expansionism
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Jim Mattis will deliver a “medium-tough” message to China this week about its military expansionism during the defence secretary’s first visit to the country, even as the Trum...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS Welcomes Elbridge Colby as Director of the Defense Program
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Washington, D.C. June 20, 2018 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce today that Elbridge (Bridge) Colby will join CNAS as the new Director of ...
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Trump Shakes Up World Stage in Break With U.S. Allies
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Rarely has President Trump’s role as a disrupter on the world stage been starker. At a moment of tumult over trade and nuclear security, he is shaking up the international ord...
By Julianne Smith
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Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un’s Nuclear Summit and the Bid for History
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In the city of Pyongyang, the sanctum sanctorum of the Workers’ Party of Korea, there are changes afoot that would have vexed Stalin. Repression has not dimmed, but, to indulg...
By Abigail Grace
