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New Study Says Shoulder-Fired Weapons Are Hazardous for the BrainService members risk brain damage when operating shoulder-fired heavy weapons like the AT4, LAW, and Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle, according to a new report by the Center for ...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Pompeo faces a hiring obstacle course
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Having secured his own job as secretary of state, Mike Pompeo faces a tough new question: Who can he get to work for him? Pompeo has inherited an unusual number of vacancies a...
By Julianne Smith
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Trump's Afghanistan strategy stymied by vetting of local troopsThe plan to turn around the war in Afghanistan may already be running into quicksand. An extensive effort aimed at weeding out Taliban sympathizers and terrorist infiltrators ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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American and Iranian hard-liners await the end of the nuclear deal
We are entering the final stretch ahead of President Trump's likely decision to pull out of the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. His administration has to decide by...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Winter Isn't Coming, but Hal's Grandkids AreThe field of artificial intelligence (AI) has known some historical ups and downs. Breakthroughs and false hopes came in cycles, along with peaks and valleys of interest and f...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump becomes more dovish toward North Korea, but surrounds himself with hawks
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As the top commander of the U.S. military forces in the Pacific, Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr. has been such an outspoken China hawk that he was reportedly subject to a gag order b...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Federal 'turf war' complicates cybersecurity effortsLawmakers are concerned that bureaucratic turf wars are complicating the federal response to cyber threats. The issue took center stage this week, as senators on the Homeland ...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Chatty Pompeo strikes early contrast with reclusive Tillerson
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Mike Pompeo, the new secretary of state, is leaning hard into the side of the job his predecessor seemed to hate the most: public relations. Within hours of being confirmed la...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump floats idea of meeting Kim on the border of Koreas in hopes of ‘a great celebration’
President Trump on Monday said he is considering holding his summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone with South Korea, rather than in a third-p...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Weapons Training Likely Causes Brain Injury in Troops, Study SaysThousands of U.S. troops are likely suffering traumatic brain injury not just from battlefield explosions but from repeated exposure to trauma while training on their own weap...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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What Happens When Your Bomb-Defusing Robot Becomes a WeaponMicah Xavier Johnson spent the last day of his life in a standoff, holed up in a Dallas community-college building. By that point, he had already shot 16 people. Negotiators w...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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For Pompeo, Senate Confirmation Was the Easy Part
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is as secure as any Trump administration official can be. He’s close to the president, understands Congress and has been welcomed by subordinate...
By Richard Fontaine
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When weapons can think for themselvesARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) is on the march, for good and ill. The AI that makes possible self-driving cars and diagnoses diseases more accurately than doctors will save live...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Welcomes Ely Ratner as Vice President and Director of Studies and Shawn Turner as Director of Communication
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Washington, D.C. April 26 2018 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce today that Ely Ratner has joined the Center as the new Vice President and...
By Shawn Turner & Ely Ratner
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Technology & National Security
Why are Militants Using Drones? UAV Weapons have Spread Far Beyond Nation StatesThe first airstrike ever launched from an unmanned drone was a failure. On October 7, 2001—the first night of the war in Afghanistan—a CIA Predator drone buzzed above a compou...
By Paul Scharre
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Can Obama’s National Security Braintrust Get Elected in the Age of Trump?
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When the Democratic Party opened its first small campaign office in congressional candidate Andy Kim’s suburban New Jersey district, he and his team expected a modest turnout....
By Julianne Smith
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Technology & National Security
A sober treatise on the future of warfare warns of the perils of autonomous robotic combatantsSooner than you may think, robotic swarms will intercept incoming missiles at hypersonic speed, while dueling cyberattacks and countermeasures transpire at nearly the speed of...
By Paul Scharre
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Book Review: "Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War"Scharre, a former U.S. Army Ranger, has thought more than most about the implications of autonomous weapons. He has spent time not only among their designers and operators but...
By Paul Scharre
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An Unpredictable Trump and a Risk-Prone Kim Mean High Stakes and Mismatched Expectations
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When Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear historian who has studied crises and breakthroughs dating to the earliest Cold War arms races, tried to imagine the possible outcomes of Presi...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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How Jim Mattis Became Trump’s “Last Man Standing”
Last Tuesday, after waking up to tweet about the previous day’s F.B.I. raid on his lawyer’s office (“a total witch hunt!!!”), President Trump called one of his outside Republi...
By Julianne Smith
