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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
What We’re Reading (and Listening to): BombshellWelcome to the Interpreter newsletter, by Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, who write a column by the same name. On our minds this week: Now that populism seems like the new hotne...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Among Trump aides, Mattis emerges as a key voice on national security issues
When Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sat down with leaders in Saudi Arabia last week, a top White House official traveling with him offered up a new label for the Pentagon chief,...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Technology & National Security
How to Manage a SwarmOur interview for the April -- June Critical Thinking with Paul Scharre--he's a Ranger vet who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who is now a robotics expert at the Center for...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
CNAS Releases New Report “The Unsettling View From Moscow: Russia’s Strategic Debate on a Doctrine of Pre-emption”Washington, April 27 – As U.S.-Russian tensions rise, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Defense Strategies and Assessments Program has released a new report examin...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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Defense / National Security Human Capital
Trump nominates two new DOD officialsPresident Trump will nominate Robert Story Karem for assistant secretary of Defense for international security affairs and Kari Bingen for principal deputy under secretary of ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Carried away: The inside story of how the Carl Vinson's canceled port visit sparked a global crisisIn early April, officials at U.S. Pacific Command were developing plans to respond to a sharp rise in tensions with North Korea. Defense Secretary James Mattis ordered PACOM C...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Time is running out for Congress to settle on budget
Congress returns from recess Monday to reckon with the looming threat of a government shutdown and the likelihood that no matter what resolution lawmakers reach for the stalle...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Army tests drone-killing lasers as threat grows on the battlefieldAs Islamic State-piloted commercial drones complicate the offensive in Mosul, sending Iraqi troops scattering as grenades and bomblets rain down, the Army has field tested veh...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How Dangerous is North Korea's Navy?In the event of a war with on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea’s naval forces might prove to be nuisance to allied forces if they are operating close to shore, but the threat...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
US military considers shooting down North Korea missile testsThe US military is considering shooting down North Korean missile tests as a show of strength to Pyongyang, two sources briefed on the planning have told the Guardian. Amid he...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump Gives Generals More Freedom on ISIS FightU.S. military commanders are stepping up their fight against Islamist extremism as President Donald Trump’s administration urges them to make more battlefield decisions on the...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The North Korean Crisis And The Need For A 350 Ship Navy
In The News
Captain Jerry Hendrix (USN, ret,) is a key naval strategist at CNAS, and co-author with Robert C. O’Brien of a Politico Magazine article published last week on the need for (a...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / National Security Human Capital
US Drops Most Powerful Non-Nuclear Bomb in AfghanistanThe U.S. military on Thursday dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal against the Islamic State in Afghanistan, marking the first ever combat use of the mass...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Trump’s Navy in 2024
Jerry Hendrix joined the John Batchelor Show to discuss the future of the U.S. Navy. Listen below or at The John Batchelor Show....
By Jerry Hendrix
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Can McMaster 'ground' White House foreign policy on the fly?
Long before he became a statesman, H.R. McMaster was known as a scholar, writing a best-selling book that criticized US military commanders for failing to stand up to Lyndon J...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Defense / Middle East Security
Syria strikes just the latest mission for the Navy's Spain-based workhorsesWhen President Trump decided to strike at the Assad regime, two names that have become familiar to commanders in Washington, to Russia and the rest of the region were mentione...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense experts press Congress for more reforms
A trio of former defense officials on Tuesday pushed lawmakers to keep passing reforms to make the Pentagon more agile and efficient, even as it digests Congress' last batch. ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
April 23: The Day China Launches Its New Aircraft Carrier?China’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier could be set to launch on April 23—the 68th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army Navy. The Type 001A carrier—thought t...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Next Aircraft Carrier: Everything We Know (So Far)Construction of China’s third aircraft carrier is well underway at the Jiangnan Changxingdao shipyard in Shanghai. The massive vessel—dubbed the Type 002—is China’s first co...
By Jerry Hendrix
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CNAS Releases New Report “War Control: Chinese Writings on the Control of Escalation in Crisis and Conflict”
As President Trump prepares to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Center for a New American Security Defense Strategies and Assessments Program has released a new rep...
By Neal Urwitz
