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Defense / National Security Human Capital
Former DoD Comptroller Hale Offers Cost-Cutting Reform AgendaThe year-end ritual across the Defense Department is “use it or lose it,” with employees racing to spend every last dollar on office equipment and information technology, hopi...
By Robert F. Hale
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National Security Human Capital
Veterans Groups Urge Donald Trump to Keep Current VA SecretarySeveral national veterans advocacy organizations are urging Donald Trump to reappoint Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald, while, separately, the six most prominent groups...
By Sec. Robert McDonald
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Technology & National Security
Pentagon taking a more serious look at off-the-shelf technologyIt seems rather straightforward: Buy technology that is already available rather than spend money reinventing the wheel. For the Pentagon, this has been easier said than done...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Trump can’t be pals with Putin and stand up to Iran
President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign was clear on at least two foreign policy issues: his opposition to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (a.k.a. the Iran dea...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Releases Report on Ensuring U.S. Military Technical AdvantageWashington, December 14 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Technology and National Security Program has released a new report laying out a fundamentally new strat...
By Neal Urwitz
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Trump ups US ante on Taiwan, but China has leverage too
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump sounds ready to use U.S. policy toward Taiwan as a bargaining chip to extract concessions from China, but both of the world powe...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Releases Report Providing a Surveillance Agenda for the Next AdministrationWashington, December 12 – With a new administration set to begin in a just over a month, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) has released a new report laying out pra...
By Neal Urwitz
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Is Taiwan a bargaining-chip for Trump on China?
The president-elect upset almost 40 years of US practice in the region by taking a call from the Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen. It was an unprecedented breach of the protocol...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump’s choice for top China diplomat has long ties to Xi
DES MOINES, Iowa — It may seem odd for the governor of a lightly populated agricultural state to be chosen as U.S. ambassador to China, especially amid escalating talk of a tr...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump and China on collision course
In speaking on the telephone with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen and lashing out at China on Twitter over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump did more than bewilder lea...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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National Security Human Capital
Air Force One Costs Billions of Dollars Because It’s a Flying White HouseDonald Trump took aim at one of the most visible emblems of the American presidency with his attack on plans for a new Air Force One, turning the iconoclastic message that got...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
Trump hires a third general, raising concerns about heavy military influencecaPresident-elect Donald Trump has selected retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly as secretary of homeland security, officials familiar with the decision said Wednesday, recruiting ...
By Phillip Carter
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Too many generals? Trump's newest nomination causing jitters
President-elect Trump's selection of retired Marine Gen. John Kelly to be secretary of homeland security brings the number of former generals on his national security team to ...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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Sec. William Perry Honored with the CNAS Distinguished National Security Leadership Award
In The News
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Trump’s ‘Unpredictable Starting Now’ Foreign Policy Is Here
More than six weeks before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is already carrying out his promise to make U.S. foreign policy less predictable with a series of mov...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Exxon CEO Now a Contender for Donald Trump’s Secretary of State
President-elect Donald Trump is widening the circle of candidates for secretary of state and will interview more prospects this week, transition officials said, a sign that af...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
Mattis isn’t just a popular general anymore. He’s an icon faced with running the entire Pentagon.Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Gitto was less than two weeks removed from his 20th birthday when a Taliban sniper hit him two times at a checkpoint in Marja, Afghanistan, in April 2...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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CNAS Press Note: Trump’s Taiwan Call
Following President-elect Donald Trump’s conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Asia-Pacific Security Program Director P...
By Patrick M. Cronin, Mira Rapp-Hooper & Harry Krejsa
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Press Release
Defense / Technology & National Security
CNAS Commentary: Trump Administration Defense PrioritiesAs President-elect Donald Trump weighs his options for the next secretary of defense and for his defense agenda, CNAS Future of Warfare Initiative Director Paul Scharre and CN...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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National Security Human Capital
Trump to nominate retired Gen. James Mattis to lead PentagonWASHINGTON (AP) — Breaking once more from presidential custom, Donald Trump is turning to a military man to steer the U.S. military, choosing retired Gen. James Mattis, who wi...
By Richard Fontaine
