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Five things to watch on Biden's first foreign trip
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President Biden’s first international trip is intended to shore up alliances amid rising challenges to the United States from Russia and China. It comes after divis...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden And The EU Agree To A Truce In A 17-Year-Long Fight Over Aircraft Subsidies
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President Biden on Tuesday announced a truce in a long-running trade war with the European Union, saying it was time to put aside the fight and focus together on the growing t...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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What to expect from Biden's trip to Europe
In The News
President Biden arrived in Europe for his first foreign trip bearing what could be a game-changing pledge: 500 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to be shared with low-...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Call for Applications | Wargaming with the Next Generation: A Russia Crisis Simulation
The CNAS Transatlantic Security and Defense programs today announced a call for applications for "Wargaming with the Next Generation: A Russia Crisis Simulation." The virtual ...
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In NATO debut, Biden's Pentagon aims to rebuild trust damaged by Trump
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President Joe Biden’s administration will use a NATO defense gathering this week to begin what is expected to be a years-long effort to rebuild trust with European allies shak...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Trump Undercuts Pentagon Over Germany Troop Withdrawal
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Wednesday that the United States would pull nearly 12,000 troops out of Germany, starting in the coming weeks, ostensibly to beef up U.S. ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Trump's decision to move troops from Germany slammed as 'a gift to Putin'
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President Donald Trump's decision to pull nearly 12,000 US troops from Germany triggered an onslaught of disapproval from Republicans, Democrats and former senior military off...
By Rachel Rizzo
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U.S. Will Cut 12,000 Forces in Germany
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The United States is cutting back its deployments in Germany by nearly 12,000 troops and shifting some of those forces around the continent, including relocating some units to...
By Rachel Rizzo
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US to pull almost 12,000 troops out of Germany
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The Trump administration is pulling almost 12,000 troops out of Germany in a move set to add to tensions within Nato. The decision comes after President Donald Trump last mont...
By Richard Fontaine
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Unquiet on the Western Front: Why the 74-Year Alliance Between Europe and America Is Falling Apart
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When German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas suggested during a June 15 video conference between 28 European Union diplomats and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the U.S. and Eu...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump wants to slash the number of US troops in Germany, and it could be a win for Russia
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The White House plans to significantly reduce its military presence in Germany, a move expert observers argue would be a win for Russia and a loss for the NATO alliance. "We ...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump threatens to reduce US troop numbers in Germany
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President Donald Trump said he would reduce the number of US troops in Germany to 25,000 unless the country spent more on defence, in a move that threatens to further strain t...
By Richard Fontaine
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European Defense and ‘Strategic Autonomy’ Are Also Coronavirus Victims
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The coronavirus has upended the best-laid plans and priorities of many, including the European Union. But one of the biggest casualties may be European efforts to build a more...
By Jim Townsend
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North Macedonia to officially join NATO on Friday
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North Macedonia is expected to deliver paperwork to the U.S. State Department on Friday that will officially make it the 30th member of the NATO alliance. The move — decades ...
By Jim Townsend
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China Casts Itself as Global Savior While U.S. and EU Focus on Virus at Home
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was emotional as he gave a press conference on the global coronavirus pandemic this week, bluntly naming which countries Serbia could count ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Turkey asks US for missile defense amid Syria standoff
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The United States has not made a decision over whether to deploy Patriot batteries to Turkey’s southern border after receiving a request from Ankara, a US official told Al-Mon...
By Jim Townsend
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NATO Eyes Troop Reductions in Afghanistan as U.S. Draws Down
Some members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are considering withdrawing thousands of their forces from Afghanistan once the United States begins to officially cut i...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Nervous U.S. Allies Brace for Iran Fallout
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Caught off guard by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to order the killing of the most powerful Iranian general, the United States’ longtime Gulf and European allies are ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Rachel Rizzo
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Turkey weighs challenges, benefits of NATO membership
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Early in December, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on NATO allies to brand the Kurdish militias who fought against Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria as terrorists. T...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump seeks support in Iran crisis but Europe skeptical
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With tensions soaring after he ordered the killing of a top Iranian general, US President Donald Trump publicly urged all other powers to abandon a 2015 nuclear accord with Te...
By Rachel Rizzo
