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Mattis isn’t just a popular general anymore. He’s an icon faced with running the entire Pentagon.
Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Gitto was less than two weeks removed from his 20th birthday when a Taliban sniper hit him two times at a checkpoint in Marja, Afghanistan, in April 2...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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CNAS Press Note: Trump’s Taiwan Call
Following President-elect Donald Trump’s conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Asia-Pacific Security Program Director P...
By Patrick M. Cronin, Mira Rapp-Hooper & Harry Krejsa
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CNAS Commentary: Trump Administration Defense Priorities
Press Release
As President-elect Donald Trump weighs his options for the next secretary of defense and for his defense agenda, CNAS Future of Warfare Initiative Director Paul Scharre and CN...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Trump to nominate retired Gen. James Mattis to lead Pentagon
WASHINGTON (AP) — Breaking once more from presidential custom, Donald Trump is turning to a military man to steer the U.S. military, choosing retired Gen. James Mattis, who wi...
By Richard Fontaine
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AP EXPLAINS: Why officers can't easily become Pentagon heads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, will need more than the usual Senate confirmation before being a...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The Battle for Aleppo
Guest host Jeff Glor leads a discussion of the ongoing battle for Aleppo, Syria, with Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for New American Security, and James Jeffrey of...
By Richard Fontaine
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To keep promises to veterans, Trump taps Koch-backed group
President-elect Trump is leaning on a once-obscure group backed by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch as he seeks to make good on a campaign promise to overhaul ...
By Phillip Carter
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War Game Confirms Major Gaps in U.S. Army’s Cyber Capabilities
U.S. forces participating in a multinational war game were tested with a barrage of cyber attacks, electronic-warfare jamming and drones that confirmed major gaps in capabilit...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Obama Administration Races To Shore Up Iran Nuclear Deal
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Happy Thanksgiving. Congressional Republicans are urging the Obama administration not to loosen sanctions on Iran during Obama's last two months in office....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The avid reading habits of Trump’s potential Secretary of Defense, James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis
Donald Trump has professed that he's not much of a reader. He told The Washington Post over the summer that he had not read biographies of presidents because he does not have ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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The Military Parade for Donald Trump Has Come Early
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The military parade for Donald Trump has come early. Two months before Inauguration Day festivities, an extraordinary number of recently retired generals, i...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump loves the sheen of the brass, but generals come with some fixed views
On the campaign trail he complained that they had been “reduced to rubble.” At other moments he suggested that he might have to fire them all. Now that Donald Trump is presid...
By Phillip Carter
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CNAS Releases New Report on the Future Defense of Korea
Washington, November 21 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Asia-Pacific Security Program has released a new edited volume on the future defense of Korea. The volu...
By Neal Urwitz
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Wrapping up his last foreign trip, Obama tries to make headway on Syria
LIMA, Peru — President Obama spent the last day of his final foreign trip attempting to make headway on one of the most painful aspects of his foreign policy portfolio: the on...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Obama Seeks to Fortify Iran Nuclear Deal
The Obama administration is considering new measures in its final months in office to strengthen the landmark nuclear agreement with Iran, senior U.S. officials said, with Pre...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Will The Iran Deal Survive Trump's Presidency?
In The News
President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear he doesn't like the Iran deal, but can he dismantle it completely? HuffPost's Jessica Schulberg asks Ilan Goldberg at the Center...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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CNAS Press Note: What Does a Trump Administration Mean for Defense?
Washington, November 17 – As the transition to the Trump administration begins and markets predict a growth in defense spending, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Defe...
By Paul Scharre
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DIUX and RCO could get lost in transition
Senior defense officials have said in recent weeks that new programs like the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental and the Rapid Capabilities Office are too mature to be rolle...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Flournoy to Trump: Let women serve in combat roles
During the presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump called the Obama administration’s move to open combat fighting roles to women in the military “politically corre...
By Michèle Flournoy
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CNAS Releases New Report, “Counterbalance: Red Teaming the Rebalance in the Asia-Pacific”
Washington, November 14 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Asia-Pacific Security Program has released a new report providing prescriptions to reinforce the Depart...
By Neal Urwitz
