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NATO's biggest military exercise in years just started, but Russia may be more worried about 2 countries that aren't members of the alliance
In The News
Trident Juncture officially started Thursday, with some 50,000 troops from all 29 NATO members and Sweden and Finland preparing for drills on land, sea, and in the air from th...
By Jim Townsend
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In The News
Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting ElectionsThe United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation to interfere in elections, telling them that Amer...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia Linked to Disruptive Industrial Control Malware
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In December, researchers spotted a new family of industrial control malware that had been used in an attack on a Middle Eastern energy plant. Known as Triton, or Trisis, the s...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump says he'll scrap a Cold War-era missile deal with Russia, which could throw 'another hand grenade' into NATO
In The News
At a rally in Nevada on October 20, President Donald Trump said he would pull the US out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty signed by the US and the Soviet Union ...
By Jim Townsend
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In The News
Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
‘America First’ doesn’t work without American valuesSaudi Arabia’s apparent killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — and the Trump administration’s haphazard response — is an unmistakable sign that U.S. foreign policy has swung ...
By Vance Serchuk
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Don't Buy the Trump Administration's China MisdirectionNear the end of September, before the United Nations, President Donald Trump leveled an extraordinary charge: China was attempting to “meddle” and “interfere” in the upcoming ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Putin and Xi Outrank Trump in Global Confidence Poll
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Global opinion of U.S. President Donald Trump has sunk so low that the world now appears to have more confidence in the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chin...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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A year after his stormy debut at the U.N., Trump will claim foreign policy successes from his brash diplomacy
President Trump had a stormy debut at the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders last September. From the podium of the packed U.N. General Assembly, he blasted Nort...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Moving think tanks beyond the Beltway
In The News
For the next two months, as official Washington empties out into the hinterlands, D.C.-based think tanks should do the same. While members of Congress and their staffs switch ...
By Julianne Smith
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As Russians describe ‘verbal agreements’ at summit, U.S. officials scramble for clarity
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Two days after President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials offered a string of assertions about what the two leaders had achieved. “Impo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Higher NATO Defense Spending May Not Help U.S. Contractors
President Donald Trump emerged from the NATO summit in Brussels touting a renewed commitment from members to increase their defense spending, but U.S. defense firms might want...
By Rachel Rizzo
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After being called ‘aggressive’ by Trump, Montenegro insists it’s a friend to America
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Earlier this week, President Trump identified a seemingly unlikely threat to world security: Montenegro, a tiny Balkan country of just over 600,000 people. Montenegrins, Trump...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Back to 1648: The Treaty of Westphalia
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If the current global order is being upended, what will replace it? We are getting a clue in the actions of western leaders and their allies, whose posture suggests a turn bac...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump has wanted a summit with Putin for months. He finally got it.
It’s official: President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 17 days — making America’s allies even more nervous about the growing closeness betwee...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Europeans Are Bracing Themselves For A Possible Trump–Putin Meeting
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European governments, already nervous for what next month’s NATO summit could hold, have been thrown for yet another loop: President Donald Trump is reportedly set to meet wit...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Trump Shakes Up World Stage in Break With U.S. Allies
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Rarely has President Trump’s role as a disrupter on the world stage been starker. At a moment of tumult over trade and nuclear security, he is shaking up the international ord...
By Julianne Smith
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Can the U.S.-Europe Alliance Survive Trump?
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Fifteen years ago, it was the Iraq War that divided Europe and the United States. Five years ago, it was the awkward revelation that the U.S. had been eavesdropping on the Ger...
By Julianne Smith
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Pompeo faces a hiring obstacle course
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Having secured his own job as secretary of state, Mike Pompeo faces a tough new question: Who can he get to work for him? Pompeo has inherited an unusual number of vacancies a...
By Julianne Smith
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Can Obama’s National Security Braintrust Get Elected in the Age of Trump?
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When the Democratic Party opened its first small campaign office in congressional candidate Andy Kim’s suburban New Jersey district, he and his team expected a modest turnout....
By Julianne Smith
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How Jim Mattis Became Trump’s “Last Man Standing”
Last Tuesday, after waking up to tweet about the previous day’s F.B.I. raid on his lawyer’s office (“a total witch hunt!!!”), President Trump called one of his outside Republi...
By Julianne Smith
