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Russia is flaunting its fancy new stealth fighter jets
Russia apparently deployed two advanced new stealth fighters to Syria in what analysts called a move by Moscow to signal its support for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad despit...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Deep Dish: What to make of the Munich (In)Security Conference
Each year, international security and defense chiefs meet at the Munich Security Conference for intense debate about global security challenges. The Washington Post's Josh Rog...
By Julianne Smith
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Seeking to outsmart US, China races ahead on artificial intelligenceWASHINGTON: When a Google computer program beat the world’s best player of an ancient Chinese board game last May, it might have seemed like an incremental milestone. But for ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Former US ambassador: 'Syrian situation extremely dangerous'
DW: Last August the US signed a bill into law called Countering America's Adversaries. It targets Russia together with North Korea and Iran. What is your assessment of Preside...
By Victoria Nuland
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Iran’s Sanctions Evasion Went East After Europe Cracked Down
The U.S. effort to put Iran in a financial vice was working. European banks were paying big fines and closing off its money flows, and severe sanctions on the country’s bankin...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Under bombs, Syria rebels cling on in Eastern Ghouta -- for now
Despite a crippling siege, infighting and a ferocious wave of bombardment, Syrian rebels have clung on to their Eastern Ghouta stronghold near Damascus -- but a looming ground...
By Nicholas Heras
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National Security Human Capital
The Lawfare Podcast: Phil Carter on Civil-Military Relations in the Trump AdministrationThe military has been not been a refuge from the Trump administration's norm-defying nature. This week, Jack Goldsmith speaks to Phil Carter, a senior fellow at the Center for...
By Phillip Carter
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Technology & National Security
Why Artificial Intelligence Researchers Should Be More ParanoidLIFE HAS GOTTEN more convenient since 2012, when breakthroughs in machine learning triggered the ongoing frenzy of investment in artificial intelligence. Speech recognition wo...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Good News: A.I. Is Getting Cheaper. That’s Also Bad News.SAN FRANCISCO — A Silicon Valley start-up recently unveiled a drone that can set a course entirely on its own. A handy smartphone app allows the user to tell the airborne dron...
By Paul Scharre
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[Herald Interview] Will inter-Korean detente continue after Olympics?
The PyeongChang Winter Olympics have brought about a rare detente between the two Koreas after years of military confrontations over Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missiles...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Munich Security Conference Panel: "US Foreign Policy: A Congressional Debate"
In The News
At the Munich Security Conference, CNAS CEO Victoria Nuland moderated the panel "U.S. Foreign Policy: A Congressional Debate." The discussion featured a bipartisan, bicameral ...
By Victoria Nuland
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Speculation swirls over allies' military drillc
With the South Korean military participating in a multilateral amphibious landing drill in Southeast Asia over the weekend, speculation continues to rise over when South Korea...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Western Countries’ Dilemma: What to Do With Captured IS Foreign Fighters?
The United States and its European allies are divided over the question of what to do with hundreds of Islamic State (IS) foreign fighters who were captured on the battlefield...
By Nicholas Heras
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‘Harassed, detained, prosecuted’: Western anti-Daesh fighters feel betrayed
LONDON: To some, they are freedom fighters, willing to risk their lives in defense of a persecuted people, but others take a dimmer view of the Western volunteers battling Dae...
By Nicholas Heras
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These Chinese military innovations threaten U.S. superiority, experts say
BEIJING — The Chinese New Year began with the traditional lighting of firecrackers on Friday, but the country's military has been working on incendiaries on an entirely differ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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FBI indictment lays bare Russian plot even as Trump claims exonerationc
WASHINGTON - The elaborate detail in a 37-page indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of Russian individuals and organisations accused of an elaborate, long-r...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Budget Deal Likely to Deliver Hefty Business to Defense Companies
The recent budget deal has handed U.S. defense companies an extra $75 billion over the next two years as the Pentagon boosts spending on aircraft, missiles, tanks and maintain...
By Robert O. Work
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The best way forward in Afghanistan
The war in Afghanistan, the longest in U.S. history, shows little sign of winding down. Despite hundreds of billions of dollars in military aid and state support, Afghanistan ...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Jordan's King Abdullah discusses Syria situation with Putin
King Abdullah of Jordan held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday amid doubts about the fate of deal brokered with the US last year to reduce figh...
By Nicholas Heras
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Shanahan focuses 'down and in' as Pentagon's No. 2
SAN DIEGO — After months spent drawing up plans for the military's future, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan says he is ready to get out of the Pentagon and carry out ...
By Robert O. Work
