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        NATO leaders gathering in London brace themselves for Trump 'fireworks'
                  
NATO leaders gathering to mark the alliance's 70th anniversary in London face multiple challenges -- including the uncertainty of what President Donald Trump might do. Trump ...
By Jim Townsend
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        It's getting harder for NATO to hide that Turkey's becoming 'a thorn in everyone's side'
                  
After months of warnings from the US and other NATO members, Turkey tested its S-400s last week, putting the Russian-made air-defense system, deployed to an airbase near Ankar...
By Rachel Rizzo
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        How NATO can punish Turkey
                  
In NATO’s 70-year history, no member state has strayed as far from the alliance’s foundational ideas as Turkey has in the past year. Yet as they gather for this week’s summit ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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        Despite Acrimony Among Leaders, NATO Is Making Strides at 70
                  
It was, perhaps, an unexpected way to mark NATO’s 70th anniversary. At a remarkably rancorous bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, U.S. Presiden...
By Jim Townsend
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        Is China NATO’s new adversary?
                  
The West’s most venerable military alliance is marking its 70th birthday this week in Britain. And it’s going to be awkward. Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,...
By Rachel Rizzo
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        US to Europe: Fix Open Skies Treaty or we quit
                  
NATO allies worried U.S. President Donald Trump will abandon the Open Skies Treaty have been told the administration views the arms control agreement as a danger to U.S. natio...
By Jim Townsend
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CNAS and Defense One Partner for Year-Long Editorial Series: "The American Readiness Project"With original reporting, research, and a body of expert commentary, the American Readiness Project will chronicle the nation’s desire, willingness, and capability for the U.S....
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        In A Remote Arctic Outpost, Norway Keeps Watch On Russia's Military Buildup
                  
There are precisely 525 stairs from the icy waters of the Barents Sea to the top of the observation post in the far northeast corner of Norway, along the Russian border. It's ...
By Jim Townsend
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        As Russia makes 2020 play, Democratic campaigns say they are in the dark, and experts fear U.S. elections are vulnerable
                  
Several Democratic presidential campaigns targeted by a Russia-based operation on Facebook’s popular Instagram app said they had been unaware of the new foreign disinformation...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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        U.S. Pushes Skeptical Allies to Step Up ISIS Fight in Syria
                  
Less than two days after a U.S. special operations raid led to the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, State and Defense Department officials are p...
By Jim Townsend
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        Europe can’t fill the U.S. void in Syria
                  
“I thought that the United States and Turkey were in NATO, and then I discovered by tweet that the U.S. had decided to withdraw its troops and pave the way [for Turkey to laun...
By Jim Townsend
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        Pentagon chief to focus on Turkey, Syria at NATO, but short on options
                  
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper is expected to focus on Turkey’s offensive into Syria and the fight against Islamic State when he meets NATO partners in Brussels this week, ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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        'Spaghetti at the wall': Russia rewriting World War II history to justify modern aggression
                  
Several Twitter accounts belonging to the Russian Foreign Ministry have been pushing false narratives about the Soviet Union's involvement in World War II in what experts beli...
By Carisa Nietsche
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        Here’s what you need to know about the US aid package to Ukraine that Trump delayed
                  
At the center of the latest scandal threatening to take down President Donald Trump is $391 million in military aid that Trump reportedly asked his staff to freeze for two mon...
By Jim Townsend
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        It’s ‘Dictator Day’ at the U.N. — with Trump in the middle
                  
President Donald Trump kicks off the main session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday alongside a rogue’s gallery of dictators, populist lectern-bangers and woul...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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2020 Democratic Primary Debates: Questions for the CandidatesBy Neil Bhatiya, Susanna V. Blume, Kara Frederick, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Daniel Kliman, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Kayla M. Williams
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Trump Cuts “Muscle” from European Defense to Fund Border WallThe list of military construction projects the Trump administration is defunding to pay for its controversial border wall includes more than $770 million from an initiative st...
By Jim Townsend
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        Russians Begin to Consider Life Without Putin
                  
At the height of summer, the Russian capital was plunged into an unexpected political crisis as thousands of people took to the streets week after week to protest the election...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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US Space Force: The race to control the space above the skyMost reporting on United States President Donald Trump's 2018 Space Force announcement was framed as another rant-filled word salad served up to military personnel attending t...
By Jim Townsend
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        Trump’s Spat With Denmark Could Cost Him Against Iran
                  
During Jim Townsend’s decades of work on European policy in the Pentagon and at NATO, he never saw the Danes say no to a fight. From the first Gulf War to counter-Islamic Stat...
By Jim Townsend