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Obama has degraded ISIS. Can Trump finish the job?
The Obama administration is publicly handing Donald Trump a gift as he prepares to enter the White House: a degraded ISIS. The question is what the President-elect will do wit...
By Julianne Smith
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What Should Mattis Look for in a Deputy?
If retired Gen. James Mattis is confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump’s first secretary of defense, he will take over arguably the largest bureaucracy in the world. The q...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Technology & National Security
Report: DOD needs new strategy to regain technological edgeThe United States is facing growing cyber and electronic warfare threats, and the Department of Defense needs to develop a new "optionality strategy" in order to regain its te...
By Ben FitzGerald, Alexandra Sander & Jacqueline Parziale
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Technology & National Security
To Innovate, Hill and DoD Must Get Comfortable With FailureFor the Pentagon to innovate, defense officials and lawmakers have to embrace failures that ultimately sharpen the military’s technological edge. Speaking at the unveiling o...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Technology & National Security
Report: Strategy, Not Acquisition Reform, Central to Maintain DoD Tech EdgeIf the Pentagon wants to maintain a technological edge over near-peer adversaries, it needs to develop a serious strategic plan and not just focus on improving the acquisition...
By Ben FitzGerald, Alexandra Sander & Jacqueline Parziale
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Defense / National Security Human Capital
Former DoD Comptroller Hale Offers Cost-Cutting Reform AgendaThe year-end ritual across the Defense Department is “use it or lose it,” with employees racing to spend every last dollar on office equipment and information technology, hopi...
By Robert F. Hale
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National Security Human Capital
Veterans Groups Urge Donald Trump to Keep Current VA SecretarySeveral national veterans advocacy organizations are urging Donald Trump to reappoint Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald, while, separately, the six most prominent groups...
By Sec. Robert McDonald
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Technology & National Security
Pentagon taking a more serious look at off-the-shelf technologyIt seems rather straightforward: Buy technology that is already available rather than spend money reinventing the wheel. For the Pentagon, this has been easier said than done...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Trump can’t be pals with Putin and stand up to Iran
President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign was clear on at least two foreign policy issues: his opposition to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (a.k.a. the Iran dea...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump ups US ante on Taiwan, but China has leverage too
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump sounds ready to use U.S. policy toward Taiwan as a bargaining chip to extract concessions from China, but both of the world powe...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Is Taiwan a bargaining-chip for Trump on China?
The president-elect upset almost 40 years of US practice in the region by taking a call from the Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen. It was an unprecedented breach of the protocol...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump’s choice for top China diplomat has long ties to Xi
DES MOINES, Iowa — It may seem odd for the governor of a lightly populated agricultural state to be chosen as U.S. ambassador to China, especially amid escalating talk of a tr...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump and China on collision course
In speaking on the telephone with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen and lashing out at China on Twitter over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump did more than bewilder lea...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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National Security Human Capital
Air Force One Costs Billions of Dollars Because It’s a Flying White HouseDonald Trump took aim at one of the most visible emblems of the American presidency with his attack on plans for a new Air Force One, turning the iconoclastic message that got...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
Trump hires a third general, raising concerns about heavy military influencecaPresident-elect Donald Trump has selected retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly as secretary of homeland security, officials familiar with the decision said Wednesday, recruiting ...
By Phillip Carter
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Too many generals? Trump's newest nomination causing jitters
President-elect Trump's selection of retired Marine Gen. John Kelly to be secretary of homeland security brings the number of former generals on his national security team to ...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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Sec. William Perry Honored with the CNAS Distinguished National Security Leadership Award
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Trump’s ‘Unpredictable Starting Now’ Foreign Policy Is Here
More than six weeks before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is already carrying out his promise to make U.S. foreign policy less predictable with a series of mov...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Exxon CEO Now a Contender for Donald Trump’s Secretary of State
President-elect Donald Trump is widening the circle of candidates for secretary of state and will interview more prospects this week, transition officials said, a sign that af...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
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
