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How Billions in Iranian Money Passes Through U.S. Banks
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“The more you use the tools, the more you create incentives for alternatives” to the dollar, said Alex Zerden, a former Treasury official and adjunct senior fellow at the Cent...
By Alex Zerden
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Why Less Visibility Into How OpenAI’s New GPT-6 Astra ‘Thinks’ Is Sparking Safety Concerns“The fact that the Hugging Face incident happened, and then right afterwards, they are releasing a model that’s harder to monitor – that’s why so many people are freaked out,”...
By Ben Hayum
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The New Jet-Powered Drones That Are Breeding Anxiety in Ukraine
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Behind that audible contrast are potentially lethal differences. Jet-powered drones “are effectively cheap cruise missiles,” explained Franz-Stefan Gady, a military analyst ba...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Iran War and U.S. Tariffs Squeeze Gulf Aluminium Producers
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“It’s very difficult for Gulf producers to get their aluminium out, which is the bigger issue,” said Rachel Ziemba, a macro-strategy adviser in New York and adjunct senior fel...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Hegseth’s Pentagon PurgeThe defense secretary’s office typically “does the final review of the [promotion] list from all the services before it goes to the White House” and does not intervene much in...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Russia Launches Mass Production of Electronic Warfare Systems to Counter Starlink, but Analysts Say Its Capabilities Are OverstatedStill, both Zemlianyi and Samuel Bendett, an expert in the U.S.-based research organization CNA, acknowledge that the system has proved effective on some parts of the front. T...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia-NATO Shadow War Pushes Europe to the Brink
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"The Leipzig attribution fits a pattern of intensifying Russian sub-threshold activity across Europe, and the trend line clearly points toward escalation rather than restraint...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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U.S. to Urge Hands-off AI Regulation at G20 Tech Meeting, Official Says"It has increased urgency for this administration to make sure that the rest of the world stays within the American tech ecosystem and doesn't seek alternatives," said Vivek C...
By Vivek Chilukuri
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The U.S. Army’s Sweeping Transformation for Future Wars Has Lost Some of Its Biggest Champions
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"This decision is quite puzzling, given the Pentagon's Drone dominance initiative and the push for the US military to integrate drones into their formations and operations," S...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Small Nuclear Reactors on Horizon as Pentagon Programs Eye 2028 Goal
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While no silver bullet, the technology presents a resilient option to the military as it looks to secure power alternatives, said Will Rogers, adjunct senior fellow at the Cen...
By Will Rogers
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Afghanistan Under the TalibanSome U.S. military officials warn that the deportations could set a precedent that undermines American interests. Potential allies are likely to think twice if American promis...
By Kyleanne Hunter
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World Mostly Shrugs Off Bessent’s Iran Sanctions Warnings
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“As the war passes the six-month mark, the public actions taken by the Treasury Department this week do not match the hype,” said Alex Zerden, an adjunct senior fellow at the ...
By Alex Zerden
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Trump Hails ‘Historic’ Deal for U.S. to Control 65BN Barrels of Venezuela’s Oil
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Rachel Ziemba, from think tank The Center for New American Security, said the agreement could help spur job growth and imports in Venezuela, but there were too few details to ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Russia Is Slowly Grinding Through the Donbas as Ukraine Braces for a Brutal Fight over Its Last Strongholds
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Military analyst Franz-Stefan Gady, author of Attack: When War Comes to Us and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, offers a somewhat more optimist...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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A Core Egyptian Bank Gets Caught up in Treasury’s Iran Crackdown
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“This threat and the U.S. willingness to use this rule is intended to prompt global banks to increase their scrutiny,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Cent...
By Rachel Ziemba
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U.S. Treasury Slaps Restriction on Egyptian Bank in UAE over Iran Trade
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“Targeting Banque Misr UAE is an escalation aimed at getting other banks in the UAE and around the world to reduce their trade with Iran, getting those private sector actors t...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Administration Working on AI Rule to Curb China’s Remote Access to ChipsClosing the remote access loophole “would deny Chinese companies access to the most powerful compute,” said Michelle Nie, a visiting fellow with the Center for a New American ...
By Michelle Nie
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The Russia-Ukraine Air War Has Entered a New, Deadlier Phase
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“The theory is that pain plus exhaustion produces political capitulation,” said Franz-Stefan Gady, a Vienna-based military analyst, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a N...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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The Senate’s NATO Backstop Is About to Lose Its Biggest Champions
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Jim Townsend, a former senior Pentagon official who also served in the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels, now an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security...
By Jim Townsend
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Nvidia Is Bolstering Support for Chinese Open AI Models as It Warns of White House Crackdown“If Chinese AI technology becomes the default for developing countries, those countries may be more likely to align themselves politically with Beijing and Chinese AI companie...
By Daniel Remler
