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US, Turkey on collision course in Syria's Manbij
In The News
The United States and Turkey are on a collision course in northern Syria, threatening to ignite a dangerous new phase in the Syrian civil war, undermine the fight against the ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria's army vows to finish off last rebels outside Damascus
In The News
Syria's army promised Saturday to finish off fighters in the final opposition holdout of devastated Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus after a penultimate pocket was declared "em...
By Nicholas Heras
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In The News
Technology & National Security
China's Social Credit System seeks to assign citizens scores, engineer social behaviourChinese authorities claim they have banned more than 7 million people deemed "untrustworthy" from boarding flights, and nearly 3 million others from riding on high-speed train...
By Elsa B. Kania
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Skeptics Ask: Can Army Field Armed Robots By 2024?Can the Army develop a Robotic Combat Vehicle within six years? Some of the experts we spoke to were deeply skeptical, including veteran congressional staffers badly burned by...
By Paul Scharre
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North Korea’s Response to Allied Exercises Could Shape Trump Meeting
SEOUL—U.S.-South Korean military exercises that began Sunday are set to test the durability of a diplomatic opening with North Korea aimed at halting the regime’s nuclear prog...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Putin just kicked out 150 Western diplomats. What comes next could be much worse
In The News
The Trump administration and its allies around the world expelled hundreds of Russian diplomats earlier this week after a former double agent was poisoned in the UK by operati...
By Rachel Rizzo
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How will the global effort to expel diplomats affect Russia?
In The News
Sixty Russian diplomats are being kicked out of the U.S. in a bid to punish the Kremlin for an attack on a former Russian spy in the UK. Is that the right response? Nick Schif...
By Victoria Nuland
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Russia Promises Retaliation After Western Expulsions
In The News
On Monday, the United States, 14 European Union countries, Canada, and Ukraine expelled Russian diplomats in a coordinated response to the poisoning of former Russian spy Serg...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Military budget in massive spending bill would usher in pay raises, new ships and planes
WASHINGTON – With a partial government shutdown looming, lawmakers on Capitol Hill were racing against the clock Thursday to approve a massive spending bill for fiscal year 20...
By Lauren Fish
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In The News
National Security Human Capital
'Just painful': Pentagon mulls an overhaul of mandatory training policiesKANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Military leaders have said they’re overwhelmed by unnecessary training requirements, but seasoned officers at this airfield in southern Afgha...
By Andrew Swick
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CNAS Earns 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator
Press Release
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that it has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, the country’s largest independent charity eva...
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White House Rift Over Russia Deepens After Trump’s Putin Call
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A battle within the White House over how to address Vladimir Putin is intensifying as U.S. President Donald Trump shows little desire to confront the Russian leader on the mos...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Cities at Risk of Climate-Driven Conflict
We know that climate change imperils coastal communities around the world and endangers food and water sources, and that political and religious extremism feed off instability...
By Neil Bhatiya
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What's left of Daesh in Syria
The Islamic State militant group, whose self-proclaimed "caliphate" disintegrated last year, still controls pockets of territory in Syria. The organisation's fighters even too...
By Nicholas Heras
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Congress: We Can’t Stop Trump From Killing the Iran Deal
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Key lawmakers are predicting that President Donald Trump will pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal later this spring. And although there is an appetite on Capit...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump’s national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin. He did it anyway.
President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers Tuesday when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his reelection — includ...
By Julianne Smith
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The British government says Russia poisoned an ex-spy in the UK. Now London is striking back
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May said her country will expel 23 Russian diplomats on Wednesday — which would be the country’s largest removal of foreign officials in more than 30...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Turkish leader vows wider offensive against Kurdish militia
In The News
BEIRUT — Turkey’s president vowed Monday to keep up the pressure against a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia after his troops captured the Syrian town of Afrin, threatening t...
By Nicholas Heras
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In The News
National Security Human Capital
Impact of State Department leadership shake-up on its employeesPhillip Carter, Senior Fellow & Counsel at the Center for a New American Security discusses how officials at the State Department are feeling after Rex Tillerson’s departu...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump's firings signal hawkish turn on North Korea and Iran
The end, when it comes to a job in the Trump administration, can be messy and brutal. The secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, was fired while returning from a gruelling Africa ...
By Julianne Smith
