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US Defense Secretary says attacks on Afrin distract Kurds from fight against Islamic State
Defense Secretary James Mattis on Sunday called the attacks by Turkey on Afrin, launched on 20 January, ‘a distraction’ and said that the Kurds inside the US-backed Syrian Dem...
By Nicholas Heras
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Budget a major boost for US military but raises deficit fears
WASHINGTON - The United States' two-year federal spending agreement passed in the early hours of Friday (Feb 9) in Washington contains the steepest increase in defence spendin...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Budget deal clears the way for $1.4 trillion, two-year military funding plan
WASHINGTON – An agreement reached in the midst of a short-lived federal government shutdown Friday will let lawmakers move forward on a plan to bust budget caps for a $1.4 tri...
By Lauren Fish
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Air strikes batter Syria rebel enclave for fifth day
Fresh bombardment hit the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Friday, AFP correspondents reported, the fifth straight day of a bombing campaign that has killed more than...
By Nicholas Heras
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At the brink of shutdown drama, potential two-year military funding deal hangs in balance
WASHINGTON – As the clock ticked closer to a government shutdown Friday, lawmakers said they were nearing a deal on a massive $1.4 trillion, two-year defense budget plan. The ...
By Lauren Fish
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China’s massive investment in artificial intelligence has an insidious downsideBEIJING—In a gleaming high-rise here in northern Beijing's Haidian district, two hardware jocks in their 20s are testing new computer chips that might someday make smartphones...
By Elsa B. Kania
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US coalition conducts airstrikes against Syrian regime troops
The US coalition in Syria conducted airstrikes against pro-Assad regime forces on Wednesday, in a fresh escalation between the two sides. In a statement released on Wednesday ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Pentagon plays down Russian influence in Syria after clash with US-backed forces he
US Defense Secretary James Mattis today cast strong doubts on Russian influence over Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria following a bloody clash with US-backed forces. The reti...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
The Co-Inventor of BlackBerry Is Building Canada’s Quantum Brain TrustIt’s early days for quantum computers, the still mostly theoretical subatomic processors so powerful they can make our fastest supercomputer look like an abacus. Mike Lazaridi...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Politics, Policy, and PyeongChang 2018: Interview with Dr. Patrick Cronin
In The News
These first-Wednesday monthly roundtables draw members and supporters from policy, corporate, media, academe, and the United Nations to discuss and debate Korea’s leadership, ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Tillerson travels to Middle East to talk post-IS stability
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey next week, on a trip focused on stabilization and reconstruction after t...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump to Speed Up U.S. Arms Sales by Reducing Oversight, Sources Say
The White House is pushing to implement as early as March a plan that would make it easier to sell some weapons to foreign partners through a process some say eliminates key r...
By Jim Townsend
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Nikki Haley slams Russia over chemical weapons use in Syria
Less than a week after the Trump administration floated a military option in response to chemical weapons use in Syria, Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, s...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
Military Not Ready for the Next Larger War, Experts SayWhile the U.S. military is ready for another Iraq War or Syria-like intervention, it is unprepared to fight a war against bigger challengers such as China or Russia, national ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
No Easy Fix for Big Data’s Threat to National SecuritySilicon Valley’s relentless quest to collect and collate every shred of consumer data hit a snag last week following the revelation that a global exercise heatmap, published o...
By Paul Scharre
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As military preps for new shutdown threat, lawmakers sound optimistic tone
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on both sides of a bitter partisan debate on Capitol Hill haven’t ruled out a temporary funding bill to head off a crucial deadline Thursday. The talks ...
By Lauren Fish
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The Global POLITICO Podcast: CNAS CEO Victoria Nuland
CNAS CEO Victoria Nuland, a former top State Department official, sits down with Susan Glasser to discuss what it was like to spend months in the middle of the U.S. government...
By Victoria Nuland
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How top US diplomat pushed back against Russian hacking
By the summer of 2016, Victoria Nuland’s “Spidey sense” told her something was very wrong. That spring, Nuland, the top State Department official charged with overseeing U.S. ...
By Victoria Nuland
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Pence Signals Openness to Talks With North Korea at Olympics
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence declined to rule out talks with North Korean officials while attending Winter Olympics events in South Korea, even as he urged the isolated regi...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Technology & National Security
China’s Fourth Industrial Revolution: Artificial IntelligenceBottom Line: China’s nationwide pursuit to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) is an attempt to not only match U.S. economic power, but to bypass it geo-st...
By Elsa B. Kania
