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Saying Goodbye to One of the Best Men in Washington
In The News
The word went out on Wednesday through emails, direct messages, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter. There was no hesitation as people across an entire continent dropped what they ...
By Shawn Brimley
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Trump Administration Admits It Cribbed From Forbes Magazine To Create “Oligarch List”
The striking similarity between a newly released Treasury Department report of Russian oligarchs and a 2017 list of wealthy Russians published in Forbes magazine is no coincid...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Trump’s Shadow Hangs Over NATO
When generals and diplomats gather for Europe’s most important security conference in Munich next month, President Donald Trump will not be in the room. But the U.S. president...
By Julianne Smith
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Technology & National Security
Congress Must Protect Tech From DoD Bureaucracy, And Itself: ExpertsUPDATED w/ Mahnken interview CAPITOL HILL: The US military is not ready for war against Russia or China, leading experts told the House Armed Services Committeethis morning. H...
By Paul Scharre
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In State of the Union, Trump to push for new military spending
WASHINGTON — In his first formal State of the Union speech, President Donald Trump will push lawmakers to look at new levels of military spending in light of growing threats a...
By Lauren Fish
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Technology & National Security
The Strava Heat Map and the End of SecretsA MODERN EQUIVALENT of the World War II era warning that “loose lips sink ships” may be “FFS don’t share your Fitbit data on duty.” Over the weekend, researchers and journalis...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump Administration Says No to New Russia Sanctions, Yes to Cribbing From Forbes
With an impending congressional deadline for fresh sanctions on Russia, the Donald Trump administration engaged in a series of confused moves Monday that ended with no new pen...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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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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Coming U.S. List of Oligarchs Linked to Putin Alarms Russia’s Richr
WASHINGTON — It was all but ignored last year when it was wrapped into a sanctions law punishing Russian aggressions. But in recent weeks, a requirement that the United States...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Russian Billionaires Are Scrambling to Stay Off a New US ‘Black List’
Last August, Congress sent President Trump a clear signal that he could not be trusted when it comes to Russia; A near-unanimous, bipartisan majority delivered a bill to the p...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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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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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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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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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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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
