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Tillerson travels to Middle East to talk post-IS stability
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey next week, on a trip focused on stabilization and reconstruction after t...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump to Speed Up U.S. Arms Sales by Reducing Oversight, Sources Say
The White House is pushing to implement as early as March a plan that would make it easier to sell some weapons to foreign partners through a process some say eliminates key r...
By Jim Townsend
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Nikki Haley slams Russia over chemical weapons use in Syria
Less than a week after the Trump administration floated a military option in response to chemical weapons use in Syria, Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, s...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
Military Not Ready for the Next Larger War, Experts SayWhile the U.S. military is ready for another Iraq War or Syria-like intervention, it is unprepared to fight a war against bigger challengers such as China or Russia, national ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
No Easy Fix for Big Data’s Threat to National SecuritySilicon Valley’s relentless quest to collect and collate every shred of consumer data hit a snag last week following the revelation that a global exercise heatmap, published o...
By Paul Scharre
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As military preps for new shutdown threat, lawmakers sound optimistic tone
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on both sides of a bitter partisan debate on Capitol Hill haven’t ruled out a temporary funding bill to head off a crucial deadline Thursday. The talks ...
By Lauren Fish
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The Global POLITICO Podcast: CNAS CEO Victoria Nuland
CNAS CEO Victoria Nuland, a former top State Department official, sits down with Susan Glasser to discuss what it was like to spend months in the middle of the U.S. government...
By Victoria Nuland
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How top US diplomat pushed back against Russian hacking
By the summer of 2016, Victoria Nuland’s “Spidey sense” told her something was very wrong. That spring, Nuland, the top State Department official charged with overseeing U.S. ...
By Victoria Nuland
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Pence Signals Openness to Talks With North Korea at Olympics
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence declined to rule out talks with North Korean officials while attending Winter Olympics events in South Korea, even as he urged the isolated regi...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Technology & National Security
China’s Fourth Industrial Revolution: Artificial IntelligenceBottom Line: China’s nationwide pursuit to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) is an attempt to not only match U.S. economic power, but to bypass it geo-st...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Trump's first year: handling North Korea
President Trump has shaken America's dynamic with North Korea during his first year. Brian Todd reports....
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Technology & National Security
Military Not Ready for the Next Larger War, Experts SayWhile the U.S. military is ready for another Iraq War or Syria-like intervention, it is unprepared to fight a war against bigger challengers such as China or Russia, national ...
By Paul Scharre
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Russian Spy Chief Reportedly Met With U.S. Intelligence Officials
Rachel Martin talks to Peter Harrell of the Center for a New American Security about reports that Russia's foreign spy service chief, despite being on a U.S. sanctions blackli...
By Peter Harrell
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Countering North Korea's Financing of its Weapons Programs
Military solutions to containing and potentially reversing North Korea’s weapons programs have dominated the discussion, but there are other means available to the United Stat...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Selva: FY19 budget sees ‘increasing’ investments in AI, machine teamingWASHINGTON — Gen. Paul Selva, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the Pentagon plans on “increasing” investments in artificial intelligence and man-machine te...
By Robert O. Work
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China’s AI dreamsLast year, China’s chief governing body announced an ambitious scheme for the country to become a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) technology by 2030. The Chinese ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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In confronting North Korea, Trump risks disaster
President Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday was heavy on misleading claims and nationalist vitriol, yet rather light on foreign-policy chat. What Trump did discuss...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Syria’s Kurds push US to stop Turkish assault on key enclave
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s Kurdish militia is growing frustrated with its patron, the United States, and is pressing it to do more to stop Turkey’s assault on a key stronghold in S...
By Nicholas Heras
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Mattis Implementing the NDS in the South China Sea
Last week, Secretary Mattis traveled to Vietnam and Indonesia to show solidarity with them over their South China Sea claims. Jason sits down with Patrick Cronin, Senior Advis...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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National Security Human Capital / Energy, Economics & Security
WMD Financing Elusive on International Playing FieldSigal Mandelker, undersecretary of terrorism and financial intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and ...
By Jonathan Brewer