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Highest-ranking female officer in Afghanistan would rather talk about war than genderKABUL, Afghanistan — Sitting in her office at NATO’s Resolute Support headquarters one recent afternoon, Army Maj. Gen. Robin Fontes played down the history she made this summ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Trump's Asia Trip: Personal Diplomacy or U.S. Diplomacy
President Trump’s five-country trip to Asia in early November provided an opportunity for Trump to address some important issues for the United States, specifically strategies...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Technology & National Security
How the Pentagon is preparing for the coming drone warsMore than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary device...
By Paul Scharre
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U.S. moves toward open-ended presence in Syria after Islamic State is routed
The Trump administration is expanding its goals in Syria beyond routing the Islamic State to include a political settlement of the country’s civil war, a daunting and potentia...
By Nicholas Heras
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Lessons from Zapad — jamming, NATO and the future of Belarus
WASHINGTON — The biannual Zapad military exercise, jointly run by Russia and Belarus, was closely watched this September by Western nations. And while there were some concerns...
By Jim Townsend
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Where Washington’s North Korea policy goes from here
Donald Trump’s first ten months have been whirlwind for North Korea watchers. From “fire and fury” to “maybe someday he will be my friend”, it’s been an unusual time to have a...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Technology & National Security
Legal Limbo Leaves Killer Robots Off-LeashThe UN’s Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) met last week to discuss lethal autonomous weapons systems. But while most member states ...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump cedes Syrian postwar planning to Putin
WASHINGTON — Six months after President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike against a Syrian government airbase, an act his aides said would give the U.S. renewed leverage acros...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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U.S. sanctions 13 Chinese and North Korean organizations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 13 Chinese and North Korean organizations Washington accused of helping evade nuclear restrictions aga...
By Peter Harrell
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Technology & National Security
Russia to the United Nations: Don’t Try to Stop Us From Building Killer RobotsArms control advocates had reason for hope when scores of countries met at the United Nations in Geneva last week to discuss the future of lethal autonomous weapons systems, o...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Industry Developing New Social Media Simulation Tools for Military AnalystsAs Black Hawk helicopters transported Navy SEALs to Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011, an IT consultant working late into the evening heard the spinn...
By Paul Scharre
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Donald Trump returns North Korea to US list of terrorism sponsors
Donald Trump has put North Korea back on a US list of “state sponsors of terrorism” after almost a decade, as his administration intensifies efforts to convince Pyongyang to a...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Technology & National Security
China Challenges Nvidia's Hold on Artificial Intelligence ChipsIN JULY, CHINA’S government issued a sweeping new strategy with a striking aim: draw level with the US in artificial intelligence technology within three years, and become the...
By Elsa B. Kania
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US-backed Forces Deny They Allowed IS Fighters to Evacuate Raqqa
Officials of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are dismissing claims they brokered a covert deal with the Islamic State last month to allow safe passage to hundre...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
Chinese drones may soon swarm the market — and that could be very bad for the USChina showed off some of its latest drone models and projects at this year's Dubai Airshow and it looks like many spectators were interested. China has seen a dramatic increas...
By Paul Scharre
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'It's a Mistake to Underestimate China'
BEIJING—At the recent APEC CEO Summit in Vietnam, President Donald Trump said the United States would refocus its existing development efforts in Asia toward infrastructure in...
By Daniel Kliman
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Technology & National Security
A Dirty Word In The U.S., 'Automation' Is A Buzzword In ChinaGerry Wong graduated from MIT with his bachelor's degree, his master's degree and his Ph.D, but in 2000 he left the United States and went home to China start a telecom equipm...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Trump said he would strike one-on-one trade deals. That’s not happening.
As he traveled across Asia, President Trump touted a flurry of multibillion-dollar military sales and one-off business deals with nations he visited. Upon his return to the Wh...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Industry Can Build 355 Ships, But Which Ones?
WASHINGTON: Sure, American industry can build the 355-ship fleet both Trump and the admirals want, three former Navy Secretaries said today. We can even build it a lot faster ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Navy Is Still Searching For A Plan To Reach A 355-Ship Fleet
n 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump made the idea of building up a 350-ship Navy a cornerstone of his stump speech, complaining that the U.S. military was failing...
By Jerry Hendrix