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Army veteran Vincent Viola, billionaire owner of the Florida Panthers, named Trump’s Army secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated as his Army secretary Vincent Viola, an Army veteran who became a billionaire after founding an electronic trading firm and went on ...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump’s Generals: How Wartime Service Shaped Mattis, Kelly, & Flynn
The generals likely to hold top positions in the incoming Trump administration share a common trait: They are combat veterans highly attuned to looming threats. While it’s ra...
By Richard Fontaine
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Chinese Navy Returns Seized Underwater Drone to U.S.
The Chinese Navy on Tuesday handed back an American underwater drone it had seized, returning the device to the United States after days of contention that drew the ire of Pre...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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CNAS Press Note: The Assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey
On news that Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was assassinated, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Strategy and Statecraft Program Director Julianne Smith and CNAS Strateg...
By Julianne Smith & Rachel Rizzo
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Washington’s most exclusive meeting may lose its luster under Trump
For eight years, it has been the most exclusive, and arguably most important, daily meeting in Washington. Each morning, President Obama gathers his inner circle for the Presi...
By Julianne Smith
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Obama cozied up to China and battled Putin. Trump is doing the exact opposite.c
President Barack Obama has spent his two terms in office working to build closer ties with China while seeking to isolate and punish Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Eight years late...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Philippines' Duterte to U.S. over aid: 'Bye-bye America'
President Rodrigo Duterte threatened Saturday to terminate a pact that allows U.S. troops to visit the Philippines, saying "bye-bye America" as he reacted with rage to what he...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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China Agrees to Return Seized Drone, Ending Standoff, Pentagon Says
BEIJING — The Pentagon on Saturday said that Beijing had agreed to return an underwater drone seized by China in international waters, an indication that the two countries wer...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Pentagon: Chinese naval ship seized an unmanned U.S. underwater vehicle in South China Sea
A Chinese naval ship seized an underwater naval drone that was being used by the U.S. Navy to test water conditions in the South China Sea, the Pentagon said Friday. Navy Cap...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense companies must go on offense to prove their value
In anticipation of changing leadership in Washington, the stock market has soared higher in recent weeks. Increasing optimism in an economic recovery is bringing more investme...
By Ben FitzGerald
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China seizes U.S. underwater drone in South China Sea
A Chinese warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by a U.S. oceanographic vessel in the South China Sea, triggering a formal diplomatic protest and a demand for its re...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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China Arms Its Great Wall of Sand
For a man who stood at the White House in September 2015 and promised not to militarize the South China Sea, Xi Jinping is sure doing a lot of militarizing. Satellite photos r...
By CDR Thomas Shugart, USN
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Obama has degraded ISIS. Can Trump finish the job?
The Obama administration is publicly handing Donald Trump a gift as he prepares to enter the White House: a degraded ISIS. The question is what the President-elect will do wit...
By Julianne Smith
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What Should Mattis Look for in a Deputy?
If retired Gen. James Mattis is confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump’s first secretary of defense, he will take over arguably the largest bureaucracy in the world. The q...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Report: DOD needs new strategy to regain technological edge
The United States is facing growing cyber and electronic warfare threats, and the Department of Defense needs to develop a new "optionality strategy" in order to regain its te...
By Ben FitzGerald, Alexandra Sander & Jacqueline Parziale
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To Innovate, Hill and DoD Must Get Comfortable With Failure
For the Pentagon to innovate, defense officials and lawmakers have to embrace failures that ultimately sharpen the military’s technological edge. Speaking at the unveiling o...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Report: Strategy, Not Acquisition Reform, Central to Maintain DoD Tech Edge
If the Pentagon wants to maintain a technological edge over near-peer adversaries, it needs to develop a serious strategic plan and not just focus on improving the acquisition...
By Ben FitzGerald, Alexandra Sander & Jacqueline Parziale
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Former DoD Comptroller Hale Offers Cost-Cutting Reform Agenda
The year-end ritual across the Defense Department is “use it or lose it,” with employees racing to spend every last dollar on office equipment and information technology, hopi...
By Robert F. Hale
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Veterans Groups Urge Donald Trump to Keep Current VA Secretary
Several national veterans advocacy organizations are urging Donald Trump to reappoint Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald, while, separately, the six most prominent groups...
By Sec. Robert McDonald
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Pentagon taking a more serious look at off-the-shelf technology
It seems rather straightforward: Buy technology that is already available rather than spend money reinventing the wheel. For the Pentagon, this has been easier said than done...
By Ben FitzGerald