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Trump's Qatar Curveball Makes Tillerson Improvise Policy Again
As the Qatar crisis erupted this week, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson found himself performing a familiar task: assuring the world his boss didn’t mean to reverse years...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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In Nod to China, South Korea Halts Deployment of THAAD Missile Defense
North Korea fired four anti-ship cruise missiles into the waters between Korea and Japan on Thursday morning, just a day after the new president of South Korea put the brakes ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Adam Klein Named New CNAS Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow
Press Release
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today that Adam Klein, formerly a CNAS Senior Fellow, has been named the CNAS Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow. The Center...
By Neal Urwitz
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Daniel Feehan, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness, Joins CNAS as Adjunct Senior Fellow
Press Release
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today that Daniel Feehan, the former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness, has joined CNAS as ...
By Neal Urwitz
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National Security Human Capital
No competition, no cost estimate as Kansas City firm picked for coveted VA contractThe Trump administration picked Kansas City-based Cerner Corp. for a coveted contract to modernize veterans health records, but the news came with a caveat: There will be no c...
By Phillip Carter
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Artificial Stupidity: Fumbling The Handoff From AI To Human ControlScience fiction taught us to fear smart machines we can’t control. But reality should teach us to fear smart machines that need us to take control when we’re not ready. From P...
By Paul Scharre
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US defense leaders offer Asia reassurances in age of Trump
Defense Secretary James Mattis and numerous other U.S. lawmakers addressed allies concerned about U.S. policy in the South China Sea region this week. In Singapore, Mattis vo...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Trump’s Hand in Military Matters
Roll Call's White House correspondent John T. Bennett talks to Paul Scharre, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank, about President Donald Trump...
By Paul Scharre
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Exclusive: Trump Officials Studying Obama's Security Plan in Case Israeli-Palestinian Peace Push Works
In the first weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump entered the White House, his special envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Jason Greenblatt, held a number of me...
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US faces struggle to ease nervous Asian allies’ fears of a retreat
When James Mattis speaks at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday, the US defence secretary will face a very different landscape from the one that greeted his prede...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Kim Jong Un Spurs Asian Race for Missile-Defense Systems
Kim Jong Un’s near-weekly rocket launches are spurring a push for missile-defense systems across Asia that risk sharpening divisions between China and U.S. allies in the regio...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord
President Trump has announced the US will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. Rich Lowry says the accord is a big nothing-burger, with the Left saying it's voluntary so wh...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Technology & National Security
Fact Check: Why did the NSA breach privacy protections?National Security Agency analysts under the Obama administration improperly searched Americans' information, but the searches were conducted largely out of error, according to...
By Adam Klein
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Trump delays moving U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a waiver that delays moving the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — kicking the can down the road in the hopes th...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Pentagon to test new anti-missile system
In The News
In wake of North Korea's latest missile test, the Pentagon will test its ability to shoot down an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time. CNN's Brian Todd repor...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Pentagon Says United States Is Ahead of North Korean Nuclear Threat Through 2020
The United States contends its missile defense technology puts it roughly three years ahead of the ever-increasing nuclear threat North Korea poses. On Tuesday, the U.S. Missi...
By Richard Fontaine
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China's Growing Naval Might Challenges US Supremacy in Asia
Ship by ship, port by port, China has over the past two decades been assembling one of the essential engines of global power: a modern navy capable of projecting force far fro...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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National Security Human Capital
Trump’s Cabinet of Generals Is Testing the U.S. Military’s Political NeutralityIn this week’s Trend Lines podcast, WPR’s editor-in-chief, Judah Grunstein, and senior editor, Frederick Deknatel, discuss the Manchester bombing and U.S. President Donald Tru...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey & Amy Schafer
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White House to Europe: Trump picks on you because he likes you
President Donald Trump may be aggravating Germany, France and other U.S. allies in Europe with his tirades and qualms about trade imbalances, NATO spending and the Paris clima...
By Julianne Smith
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U.S. Air Force base prepares unprecedented missile launch
Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California is preparing to launch a missile designed to shoot down an incoming warhead. CBS Los Angeles reports a Ground-based Interceptor...
By Patrick M. Cronin
