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A special report on the future of war
As well as those mentioned in the text, the author would like to express special thanks to the following people for their help in preparing this special report:Douglas Barrie,...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Turkey’s Afrin assault complicates conflict
BEIRUT: Turkey’s assault against Kurdish forces in the northern Syrian enclave of Afrin has further complicated the bloody and complex war raging in Syria since 2011. Syrian r...
By Nicholas Heras
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Enemy of the State
On June 6, 2016, Bill Browder, a London-based billionaire, sent an email to Kyle Parker, a congressional staffer, with the subject line “Veselnitskaya house.” The email, which...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Why nuclear stability is under threat
NUCLEAR WEAPONS, LIKE the poor, seem likely always to be with us. Even though arms-control agreements between America and the Soviet Union, and then Russia, have drastically r...
By Richard Fontaine & James N. Miller, Jr.
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CNAS CEO Victoria Nuland considers the past year of American foreign policy
Understandably, a great deal of the foreign policy debate in the first year of the Trump presidency has centered on process — the dysfunction and exodus of career Foreign Serv...
By Victoria Nuland
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Vice President Mike Pence visits Western Wall amid tensions with Palestinians
JERUSALEM – Vice President Mike Pence placed his hand on the hallowed Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday as he wrapped up a four-day trip to the Mideast that ende...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Technology & National Security
Bob Work has an idea to improve artificial intelligenceFormer Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, the architect behind the Department of Defense’s Third Offset strategy, predicted the Pentagon could soon establish an Artificial ...
By Robert O. Work
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US National Defence Strategy signals key shift back to competition with great powers
The United States' National Defence Strategy (NDS) provides a large part of the jigsaw of America's foreign policy under President Donald Trump - and marks a key strategic shi...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Can Mattis Succeed Where His Predecessors Have Failed?
Secretary of Defense James Mattis personally rolled out the U.S. government’s new National Defense Strategy in a speech last week, signaling his intellectual and bureaucratic ...
By Robert O. Work
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Experts: Turkey’s Syrian Offensive Risks Direct Confrontation with U.S.
Turkey's ground assault against an American-backed Kurdish militia in northern Syria threatens a further deterioration in relations with the United States, a key NATO partner,...
By Nicholas Heras
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"The stakes are very high": Turkey's attack in Syria risks conflict with USh
The US is facing yet another major diplomatic challenge in the Middle East, after its NATO partner Turkey's decision to attack US-backed forces in Syria. Turkish ground forces...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
Raisina 2018 | Conflicts, Rights and the Machine: Addressing the Evolving Methods of WarfareelWith global military spending on the rise, we may now be on the cusp of a series of new technological innovations that will fundamentally influence the way we conduct warfare....
By Elsa B. Kania
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With pending shutdown deal, servicemembers could avoid impact on pay
WASHINGTON — As lawmakers seemed poised to approve a deal Monday to break their impasse that precipitated a federal government shutdown, servicemembers will likely see little ...
By Lauren Fish
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Turkish troops cross Syrian border near Afrin
Turkish troops crossed into northern Syria today, a day after Turkish air force jets pounded Kurdish targets in the Afrin region in a move that will further inflame the nearly...
By Nicholas Heras
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Shutdown or stopgap deal? Either way, military suffers
President Donald Trump is correct to warn that a government shutdown would harm the military — but the short-term spending deal he’s pledged to sign would also hamper the Pent...
By Susanna V. Blume
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North Korea — Kim Jong Un hits ‘the bunny slope of tension-reductions’
North and South Korea plan to march under the same flag at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, and field a combined women’s ice hockey team. The Hermit Kingdom’s Kim Jong Un...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Amid government shutdown, the military becomes major front in political battle
The U.S. military faced a variety of consequences as a result of a federal government shutdown Saturday, with U.S. troops working at least temporarily without pay, thousands o...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Lawmakers battle in the final hours to avert government shutdown
WASHINGTON – Congress is barreling toward yet another deadline to keep the federal government up and running. Funding is slated to run out by late Friday evening and without a...
By Lauren Fish
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Can Mattis makes the National Defense Strategy great again?
BRUSSELS – When the Pentagon rolls out the National Defense Strategy on Jan. 19, expect a lot of statements about how it will serve as a definitive document, one that will gui...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Tillerson calls Iran a ‘strategic threat’ in Syria, vowing to diminish its presence
Undercutting Iran’s influence in Syria has emerged as a central goal for the Trump administration as it laid out its new political and military strategy for the ongoing confli...
By Nicholas Heras