Press
Showing 5161-5180 of 8867 Items
-
National Security Human Capital
These generals are following orders — even as they lead America off a cliff“If you want to get into a debate with a four-star Marine general, I think that is something highly inappropriate.” When Sarah Huckabee Sanders spoke these words about White H...
By Phillip Carter
-
Tillerson visits Afghanistan as US ramps up campaign against militants
US secretary of state Rex Tillerson made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday, hoping to cement Donald Trump’s new strategy and ramp up the political and military pre...
By Stephen Tankel
-
US, South Korea Stand United Against Kim Ahead of Trump’s Asia Trip
President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in could be set to take an international good cop/bad cop approach in handling the North Korean nuclear threat, one ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
-
National Security Human Capital
For some veterans, John Kelly’s remarks add to a worrying military-civilian divideThe deaths of four Special Forces soldiers in Niger this month have sparked wider debate about military service, the civilian-military divide in the United States and the cont...
By Phillip Carter
-
National Security Human Capital
Kelly, in Defending Trump Call, Holds Up Military as an Elite ClassWASHINGTON — When John F. Kelly stood in the White House briefing room on Thursday and described how the remains of American troops killed in combat are shipped home and then ...
By Phillip Carter
-
ISIS may be dispersed, not destroyed
In November 2001, the Taliban abandoned Kabul without a fight, and a month later the U.S. triumphantly installed Hamid Karzai as the new Afghan president. But in reality, the ...
By Nicholas Heras
-
A Russian Ghost Submarine, Its U.S. Pursuers and a Deadly New Cold War
The Krasnodar, a Russian attack submarine, left the coast of Libya in late May, headed east across the Mediterranean, then slipped undersea, quiet as a mouse. Then, it fired a...
By Center for a New American Security
-
National Security Human Capital
Kelly has widened the gap between the military and the rest of usWhen White House Chief of Staff and retired Marine General John Kelly participated in a press conference on Thursday, he delivered an emotional, moving, and ultimately divisiv...
By Amy Schafer
-
After Raqqa, the U.S. sees Russia, Assad looming over remaining Syrian battlefield
Rapid advances by Russian- and Iranian-backed government forces in eastern Syria are thwarting the U.S. military’s hopes of pressing deeper into Islamic State territory after ...
By Nicholas Heras
-
US Secretary of State to tour Saudi Arabia and Qatar
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will arrive in Saudi Arabia on Friday for a visit that will highlight improved relations between Riyadh and Baghdad and elements of Donald ...
By Nicholas Heras
-
George W. Bush comes out of retirement to deliver a veiled rebuke of Trump
Former president George W. Bush on Thursday delivered a rare political speech in which he warned of threats to American democracy and a decay of civic engagement, a message th...
By Richard Fontaine
-
No Plans to Withdraw U.S. Troops Even After ISIS Defeat
Islamic State militants have lost almost their entire so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, but that doesn’t mean the United States will be withdrawing thousands of troops se...
By Nicholas Heras
-
Technology & National Security
Armed Robots: US Lags Rhetoric, RussiaAUSA: American military leaders talk how artificial intelligence will change the face of war, but the unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) actually in development are much more mod...
By Paul Scharre
-
Press Release: CNAS and 21st Century Fox Launch National Security Film & Television Series
In The News
Washington, October 18 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and 21st Century Fox (21CF) are pleased to announce the launch of the CNAS-21CF Film Series. The series ...
By Neal Urwitz
-
Press Release: Flournoy to Transition to Board of Directors December 31; Two New Board Members Added
Press Release
Washington, October 17 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Board of Directors today announced that former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson; former c...
By Neal Urwitz
-
How Donald Trump is negotiating like a hostage-taker
As a candidate, Donald Trump sold himself as a deal maker. As president, he's governing more as a hostage taker. Across an array of domestic and foreign challenges, Trump's go...
By Richard Fontaine
-
Defeat of Islamic State in Raqqa may herald wider struggle for U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The defeat of Islamic State in its de facto capital Raqqa may only be the start of a wider struggle by the United States to contain any insurgency launc...
By Nicholas Heras
-
Closer U.S.-India Ties Make Strategic Sense. What’s Holding Them Back?
When U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his new strategy for the Afghan war in August, he called on India to become more involved in Afghanistan’s security. Secretary of Def...
By Richard Fontaine
-
Trump’s Iran strategy: a bluster or long-term plan?
US president Donald Trump’s speech announcing a new US policy to counter the “fanatical regime” of Iran and its “sinister vision for the future” was not only short on detail b...
By Nicholas Heras
-
The defeat of ISIS in Raqqa tests U.S. commitment to Syrian Kurds
BEIRUT — U.S.-backed forces in Syria claimed Tuesday that they had full control of the Islamic State’s onetime capital of Raqqa, heralding an end to the militants’ presence in...
By Nicholas Heras
