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Trump Offers No Apology for Claim on British Spying
President Trump provoked a rare public dispute with America’s closest ally on Friday after his White House aired an explosive and unsubstantiated claim that Britain’s spy agen...
By Julianne Smith
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The Coming Battle Over Surveillance
As mystery continues to swirl around the February resignation of General Mike Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, an already-contentious government progr...
By Adam Klein
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The cost of America's increasingly expensive military fighter jets
In late February, President Donald Trump announced a $54 billion increase in military spending. This week, he revealed where he's going to get the money from. On the chopping ...
By Steven Kosiak
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Trump drags key foreign allies into controversy over unproven wiretap claims
President Trump’s unproven allegation that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower in New York ahead of the election blazed a new path of political disruption Friday as he drag...
By Julianne Smith
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Rex Tillerson’s Dangerous Silence
Not long after President Obama’s second inauguration, I walked down 23rd Street in Foggy Bottom toward my new office in the State Department. I was a couple of days from start...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Middle East Security Advisor Ilan Goldenberg: ‘The Iran Deal Is The Foreign Policy Equivalent Of Obamacare’
“You can rail against it, but it’s really hard to untangle.” That was the expert opinion of Ilan Goldenberg at a blunt and unsparing, exclusive interview during last month’s a...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump's Wiretap Claims Are Bogus. But He's Still Onto Something.
The current scandal surrounding President Donald Trump's tweeted accusations that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower is proof of what might be called the Salena Zito rule....
By Adam Klein
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US Needs 12 Carrier Strike Groups in the 350 Ship Navy.
Donald Trump campaigned explicitly on the promise to grow the size of the United States Navy to 350 ships from its low of 271 ships in the fall of 2015 as part of his plan to ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Marines sent to Syria. Can US withstand pull of expanded military conflict?
The 400 Marines dispatched to northern Syria last week to back up US-trained rebel forces battling the so-called Islamic State were plunked down into a war of acute risk and g...
By Nicholas Heras
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How Intelligent Drones Are Shaping the Future of Warfare
The drones fell out of the sky over China Lake, California, like a colony of bats fleeing a cave in the night. Over 100 of them dropped from the bellies of three Boeing F/A-18...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump Lets Key Offices Gather Dust Amid ‘Slowest Transition in Decades’
At the State Department, the normally pulsating hub of executive offices is hushed and virtually empty. At the Pentagon, military missions in some of the world’s most troubled...
By Michèle Flournoy
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US puts off announcing decision on Raqqa until after Turkey referendum
The Trump administration’s internal debate over how to capture Raqqa, the so-called capital of the Islamic State (IS), is continuing nearly two weeks after the Pentagon presen...
By Nicholas Heras
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Cooperation with Russia in Syria Off the Table for Trump Team
President Donald Trump's national security team is not considering any increase in cooperation with Russia against the Islamic State group in Syria, according to multiple curr...
By Julianne Smith
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The Military Strategy Behind Bolstering U.S.-Backed Syrian Forces To Fight ISIS
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In Syria, twin bombings on Saturday killed dozens of people in the capital Damascus. Militants say they were targeting allies of President Bashar al-Assad. The bloodshed came ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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The U.S. Troop Presence in Syria Is at Its Highest Ever. But How Long Are They on the Ground for and Why?
The Trump Administration is intensifying America’s involvement in the ground war in Syria, having announced on March 9 that it is sending 400 more troops to join the fight aga...
By Nicholas Heras
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Allies Fear Trump Is Eroding America’s Moral Authority
When the State Department released its annual human rights report last week, it contained many of the usual tough American judgments of other countries. Iran was criticized fo...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Keeping America Safe: Is Trump's Military Budget Enough?
On the campaign trail and now as commander in chief, President Donald Trump has pledged to boost America's depleted armed forces. During his recent address to Congress, he ann...
By Alexandra Sander
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Ambassador role places Branstad on the 'front line of American power and influence'
Serving as ambassador to China will be the challenge of Terry Branstad’s life, foreign policy experts and a former envoy said — at times frustrating and demoralizing, always d...
By Harry Krejsa
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Manbij and the Unforgiving Complexity of the Syrian War
Top U.S. defense officials believe all of the warring parties in Manbij got the message after American forces deployed an armored convoy through the Syrian city earlier this w...
By Julianne Smith
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Still Fighting, and Dying, in the Forever War
In November 2016, Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott Dayton became the first member of the United States military to die in the continuing conflict in Syria. Chief Dayton w...
