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Trump decides to keep US troops in Syria for now, signaling Pentagon win
U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to keep U.S. troops in Syria, the White House announced, an apparent win for military commanders who warned against drawing down the Am...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump administration to impose fresh sanctions against Russia
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The United States is expected to impose additional sanctions against Russia by Friday, according to U.S. officials. The sanctions are economic and designed to target oligarchs...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Ex-Google Executive Opens a School for AI, with China's HelpWHEN CHINA’S GOVERNMENT said last summer it intends to surpass the US and lead the world in artificial intelligence by 2030, skeptics pointed to a major problem. Despite gobs ...
By Elsa B. Kania & Robert O. Work
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White House says anti-IS fight in Syria ‘coming to rapid end’
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WASHINGTON — A day after President Donald Trump said he wanted to bring US troops home from Syria, the White House announced that the US-led coalition will complete its missio...
By Nicholas Heras
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Game of Drones: China Ramps up Development to Challenge U.S. DominanceOne of China’s top drone engineers says the country’s military drone program has entered a new phase of development as China attempts to close the gap in America’s dominance o...
By Paul Scharre
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The Next NSA Chief is More Used to Cyberwar than Spy GamesAFTER SAILING THROUGH two friendly Senate hearings—one so uncontroversial that only six senators tops bothered to even show up at any given point in the hour—Lieutenant Genera...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Google Workers Urge C.E.O. to Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. ProjectWASHINGTON — Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company’s involvement in a Pentagon program that uses art...
By Paul Scharre
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The Navy's Secret Wish: Bring Back the Old F-14 Tomcat from the Dead?The F-35C was never designed to be an air superiority fighter. Indeed, naval planners in the mid-1990s wanted the JSF to be a strike-oriented aircraft with only a 6.5G airfram...
By Robert O. Work
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Technology & National Security
Army Rolling Ahead With Manned-Unmanned ConvoysThe Army is moving forward with efforts to develop an autonomous convoy capability that could help troops transport supplies, equipment and other resources more efficiently an...
By Paul Scharre
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Counter-IS officials temper Trump’s rush to pull out of Syria
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US officials in charge of the fight against the Islamic State (IS) warned today that the American-led coalition’s hard-fought gains could yet be reversed as President Donald T...
By Nicholas Heras
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Huawei flourishes despite perennial hurdles in USHuawei is the manifestation of everything the US fears and loathes about China: a high-tech giant, founded by a former army officer, that it believes has ties to the Communist...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Abe to meet Trump over fears Japan is being sidelined on North Korea talks
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could face some tense moments when he meets with President Trump this month at Mar-a-Lago, reflecting rising fears back home that Tokyo has ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Army hopes new units will help break Afghanistan stalemateFORT POLK, La. — Seventeen years in the infantry have turned Army 1st Sgt. Shaun Morgan into a hard-charging grunt, but the veteran of five combat tours who recently deployed ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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US, Turkey on collision course in Syria's Manbij
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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
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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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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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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
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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?
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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
