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China Increases Production Of AIP Submarines With Massive New ShipyardBehind the closed doors of imposing new construction halls, bedecked with a ginormous Chinese flag, workers are busy with the serial production of submarines. The subs are kno...
By Tom Shugart
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CNAS Responds: Week One of the Biden PresidencyA week in, the Biden administration has made a series of moves across national security policy. In the advisory below, CNAS experts unpack key developments and possible outcom...
By Richard Fontaine, Carrie Cordero, Chris Dougherty, Jason Bartlett, Nathalie Grogan, Megan Lamberth, Emma Moore, Carisa Nietsche, Ainikki Riikonen & Rachel Ziemba
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Defense / Middle East Security
US exploring new bases in Saudi Arabia amid Iran tensionsThe U.S. military is exploring the possibility of using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and an additional two airfields in the kingdom amid heightened tensions with Iran, the m...
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How Space Became the Next ‘Great Power’ Contest Between the U.S. and ChinaBeijing’s rush for antisatellite arms began 15 years ago. Now, it can threaten the orbital fleets that give the United States military its technological edge. Advanced weapons...
By Greg Grant
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Defense / Middle East Security
Saudi Arabia and Gulf allies ‘to lift years-long blockade on Qatar, reopen border'Saudi Arabia and its regional allies will end a years-long crippling blockade of Qatar and re-open its borders in a breakthrough agreement, due to be signed on Tuesday.The dea...
By Becca Wasser
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Transition mistrust: Roadblocks on troops, cyber hack and budgets
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President-elect Joe Biden's explosive allegation this week that the outgoing Trump administration is throwing up "roadblocks" on key national security matters was a low-point ...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS Defense Program Announces Six New Adjunct Fellows
Press Release
Washington, December 17, 2020—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce six new adjunct fellows to its Defense Program. Joining as Adjunct Senior Fe...
By Cole Stevens
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Democracies need to re-learn the art of deception
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Five hundred dummies descended on the French coast on the night of June 5th 1944. The crack of gunfire sounded from each one, courtesy of a small pyrotechnic device. As they t...
By Jennifer McArdle
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Defense / National Security Human Capital
AP sources: Biden picks Lloyd Austin as secretary of defensePresident-elect Joe Biden will nominate retired four-star Army general Lloyd J. Austin to be secretary of defense, according to four people familiar with the decision. If conf...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Defense / National Security Law
Republicans confirm Rogers as ranking member of the House Armed Services CommitteeRep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) on Dec. 3 was officially selected to serve as the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee in the 117th Congress. Departing ranking HASC ...
By Sarah Mineiro
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Anticipating Senate bottlenecks, Biden races to fill agency jobs
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Now that he’s chosen a big chunk of his Cabinet nominees, President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is focusing increasingly on selecting candidates for government positions...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Biden transition is at last under way, but the delay could prove costly for US democracy
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I love the country but I can’t stand the scene,” Leonard Cohen croons in “Democracy”. It’s been a beautiful autumn in Washington, DC: the sky a crisp blue, the fallen leaves a...
By Richard Fontaine
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Space Force to Outlast Trump as Buying Powers Impasse Persists
President-elect Joe Biden will inherit his predecessor’s signature military Space Force, yet the pace of its development hinges on lawmakers resolving a fundamental dispute: h...
By Sarah Mineiro
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Biden administration will seek to restore stability at Pentagon, analysts say
A Biden presidency is expected to strike a relatively steady course at the Pentagon, seeking to restore stability in military decision-making while reemphasizing alliances and...
By Richard Fontaine
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Climate promises will crash into regulatory bureaucracy
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Before he became president-elect, Joe Biden said a top priority for his administration would be to reengage in efforts at home and abroad to address climate change, including ...
By Robert O. Work
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Biden could take swift action on transgender ban, nuclear weapons
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President-elect Joe Biden could get some quick wins by using executive orders to roll back several of President Donald Trump’s Pentagon policies. For example, very little will...
By Robert O. Work
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Introducing The Gaming Lab at CNAS
Press Release
The Center for a New American Security today launched The Gaming Lab at CNAS, a new major initiative led by the CNAS Defense Program. CNAS experts and adjuncts at The Gaming L...
By Chris Dougherty, Becca Wasser & Cole Stevens
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
The Trump administration is considering moving U.S. Africa Command. It won’t be cheap or easy.The Trump administration’s effort to relocate the U.S. military headquarters that oversees operations in Africa could cost at least $1 billion and create new diplomatic and lo...
By Jim Townsend
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Is Palau the key to the Marine Corps’ fight against China?
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During Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s stop at the tiny island nation of Palau he visited civil affair compounds and met with high ranking government officials, building on a r...
By Chris Dougherty
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
America’s problem is much bigger than TikTokChina watchers are waiting to see how, and whether, Chinese company ByteDance sells its wildly popular social media app TikTok to a U.S. buyer by Sept. 15, as the Trump admini...
By Kara Frederick, Elsa B. Kania & Van Jackson
