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India has imposed certain redlines on China's BRI: Expert
WASHINGTON: India has effectively imposed certain redlines on China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia, a US expert has said. India is the only major country o...
By Daniel Kliman
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National Security Human Capital
Training Quick and Staffing Unfinished, Army Units Brace for Surging TalibanWASHINGTON — They are being heralded as a key part of President Trump’s new strategy to resolve the nearly 17-year war in Afghanistan. But their training has been cut short by...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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The U.S. Has Put Itself in an Impossible Situation in Syria
After years of battle, the U.S. is on the cusp of defeating ISIS in Syria, but the tactics it’s used to do so have left the military in a strategic hole of epic proportions. C...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Will Turkey attack Manbij?
Operation Olive Branch, the military operation against the Kurd-administered enclave of Efrin in northern Syria launched by Turkey on Saturday has sparked fears that a new pha...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
Autonomous weapons are a game-changerAI-empowered robots pose entirely new dangers, possibly of an existential kind...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Getting to grips with military roboticsPETER SINGER, AN expert on future warfare at the New America think-tank, is in no doubt. “What we have is a series of technologies that change the game. They’re not science fi...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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National Security Human Capital
The Army's latest weapon to turn around the war in AfghanistanFORT POLK, La. — The Army has a new tool it hopes will finally tip the scales in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan — and potentially other Islamist insurgencies. But ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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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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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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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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U.S. Sanctions Weapon Is Under Threat — but Not From Bitcoin
Venezuela’s announcement that it will soon launch its own virtual currency, “El Petro,” with the express idea of evading U.S. financial sanctions, set alarm bells ringing in W...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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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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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