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Iraqi forces clash with Kurdish troops near strategic border with Syria
Iraqi forces backed by Iranian-allied militias began an assault Thursday to reclaim more Kurdish-held territory in Iraq, advancing toward a crossing in the country’s western b...
By Nicholas Heras
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CNAS Launches Nationwide Outreach Program Project on Transatlantic Relations
Press Release
The three-year project will feature trips to 12 cities, where two American and two European national security leaders will meet with local leaders, public audiences, students,...
By Neal Urwitz & Julianne Smith
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US launches 'most advanced' stealth sub amid undersea rivalry
Touted as the world's most technologically advanced fast attack submarine, the USS South Dakota is set to join the US Navy fleet amid a growing threat to American undersea dom...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Israel willing to resort to military action to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons: minister
TOKYO (Reuters) - Israel is willing to resort to military action to ensure Iran never acquires nuclear weapons, the intelligence minister said on Thursday in Japan where he is...
By Peter Harrell
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Frederick O. Terrell Joins CNAS Board of Directors
Press Release
Washington, October 25 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced that Frederick O. Terrell, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Capital Markets at Cr...
By Neal Urwitz
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Report: Trump Must Team up With Private Business to Preserve U.S. Edge in Space
The Trump administration should promote policies within the business community to advance U.S. space capabilities in order to maintain the nation's strategic edge over Russia ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Tillerson visits Afghanistan as US ramps up campaign against militants
US secretary of state Rex Tillerson made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday, hoping to cement Donald Trump’s new strategy and ramp up the political and military pre...
By Stephen Tankel
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National Security Human Capital Program
These generals are following orders — even as they lead America off a cliff“If you want to get into a debate with a four-star Marine general, I think that is something highly inappropriate.” When Sarah Huckabee Sanders spoke these words about White H...
By Phillip Carter
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US, South Korea Stand United Against Kim Ahead of Trump’s Asia Trip
President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in could be set to take an international good cop/bad cop approach in handling the North Korean nuclear threat, one ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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National Security Human Capital Program
Kelly, in Defending Trump Call, Holds Up Military as an Elite ClassWASHINGTON — When John F. Kelly stood in the White House briefing room on Thursday and described how the remains of American troops killed in combat are shipped home and then ...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital Program
Kelly has widened the gap between the military and the rest of usWhen White House Chief of Staff and retired Marine General John Kelly participated in a press conference on Thursday, he delivered an emotional, moving, and ultimately divisiv...
By Amy Schafer
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A Russian Ghost Submarine, Its U.S. Pursuers and a Deadly New Cold War
The Krasnodar, a Russian attack submarine, left the coast of Libya in late May, headed east across the Mediterranean, then slipped undersea, quiet as a mouse. Then, it fired a...
By Center for a New American Security
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ISIS may be dispersed, not destroyed
In November 2001, the Taliban abandoned Kabul without a fight, and a month later the U.S. triumphantly installed Hamid Karzai as the new Afghan president. But in reality, the ...
By Nicholas Heras
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National Security Human Capital Program
For some veterans, John Kelly’s remarks add to a worrying military-civilian divideThe deaths of four Special Forces soldiers in Niger this month have sparked wider debate about military service, the civilian-military divide in the United States and the cont...
By Phillip Carter
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George W. Bush comes out of retirement to deliver a veiled rebuke of Trump
Former president George W. Bush on Thursday delivered a rare political speech in which he warned of threats to American democracy and a decay of civic engagement, a message th...
By Richard Fontaine
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US Secretary of State to tour Saudi Arabia and Qatar
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will arrive in Saudi Arabia on Friday for a visit that will highlight improved relations between Riyadh and Baghdad and elements of Donald ...
By Nicholas Heras
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After Raqqa, the U.S. sees Russia, Assad looming over remaining Syrian battlefield
Rapid advances by Russian- and Iranian-backed government forces in eastern Syria are thwarting the U.S. military’s hopes of pressing deeper into Islamic State territory after ...
By Nicholas Heras
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No Plans to Withdraw U.S. Troops Even After ISIS Defeat
Islamic State militants have lost almost their entire so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, but that doesn’t mean the United States will be withdrawing thousands of troops se...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
Armed Robots: US Lags Rhetoric, RussiaAUSA: American military leaders talk how artificial intelligence will change the face of war, but the unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) actually in development are much more mod...
By Paul Scharre
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Press Release: CNAS and 21st Century Fox Launch National Security Film & Television Series
In The News
Washington, October 18 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and 21st Century Fox (21CF) are pleased to announce the launch of the CNAS-21CF Film Series. The series ...
By Neal Urwitz
