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CNAS Announces 2022 Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Fellows
Press Release
Washington, January 28, 2022—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today the selection of the 2022 Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Fellows. N...
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For Economic Sanctions To Work Against Russia, the US and Its Allies Will Have To Share Some of the Pain
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The Biden administration’s strategy for economic sanctions against Russia should it invade Ukraine could be summed up as “no pain, no gain.” With a military confrontation off ...
By Edward Fishman
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Olympians Warned to Bring Burner Phones
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When Olympic athletes from all over the world land in Beijing for the 2022 Olympic Games, they'll be loaded up with burner phones and will likely leave their own devices behin...
By Martijn Rasser
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CNAS strategy game examines how U.S., China respond to Taiwan Semiconductor Disruption
Press Release
Washington, January 27— Essential to the day-to-day functioning of modern society, semiconductors are increasingly at the center of a high-stakes competition between the U.S. ...
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The U.S. Says It Will Stand Firm Against Major Russian Demands as Tension Rises
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As concern rises that Russia is preparing to attack Ukraine, the United States is not bending to major demands by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Secretary of State Antony B...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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How the Computer Chip Shortage Could Incite a U.S. Conflict With China
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The war game scenario conducted by a Washington think tank began with a sudden failure at three Taiwanese semiconductor foundries that make high-end computer chips used in suc...
By Martijn Rasser & Becca Wasser
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Algorithmic Warfare: Pentagon Shakes Up AI, Digital Bureaucracies
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In December, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks made waves when she issued a memo announcing the creation of a new key role that would report directly to her: the chie...
By Lt Gen Jack Shanahan
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Electric Grid is 'Attractive Target' for Domestic Violent Extremists in US, Intel Brief Says
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Domestic violent extremists will "likely continue" to plot and encourage physical attacks against electrical infrastructure in the United States, according to a recent Departm...
By Carrie Cordero
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Algorithmic Warfare: Pentagon Shakes Up AI, Digital Bureaucracies
In The News
In December, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks made waves when she issued a memo announcing the creation of a new key role that would report directly to her: the chie...
By Lt Gen Jack Shanahan
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Lawmakers Ask Austin to Rush Abrams Sale to Poland
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Top Republicans on Monday made a push to accelerate Washington’s proposed sale of 250 M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 tanks to NATO ally Poland, which has been pending since last summer, in...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Threatens Use of Novel Export Control to Damage Russia’s Strategic Industries if Moscow Invades Ukraine
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The Biden administration is threatening to use a novel export control to damage strategic Russian industries, from artificial intelligence and quantum computing to civilian ae...
By Edward Fishman
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US Sanctions Would Hit Rouble, Force Russian Bank Bailout, Say Experts
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The Biden administration’s threat to sanction US dollar transactions by Russian banks if the country invades Ukraine could set off a domestic financial crisis and even hasten ...
By Edward Fishman
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Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics
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President Biden is considering deploying several thousand U.S. troops, as well as warships and aircraft, to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, an expansion of Amer...
By Jim Townsend
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Russia Raises Pressure by Sending More Troops to Ukraine Border
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Diplomats from the US and Russia have shuttled across Europe for security talks over Ukraine but military analysts have had their eye on more ominous movements: the further de...
By Michael Kofman
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Russia’s Marker Robot is a Testbed For Its Next-Gen Military Tech
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This month, Russia announced that it had completed research on its experimental Marker robot combat vehicle. The machine, designed from the start as a testbed for future tools...
By Samuel Bendett
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The Digital Sleuths Exposing Russia's Military Buildup Near Ukraine
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As Russia has moved tens of thousands of troops toward its border with Ukraine in recent months, hinted of an armed response if NATO does not acquiesce to its demands, and ann...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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North Korea Slams US, Hints at Resuming Nuclear, ICBM Tests
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Accusing the United States of hostility and threats, North Korea on Thursday said it will consider restarting “all temporally-suspended activities” it had paused during its di...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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North Korea Says U.S. Hostility Has Reached 'Danger Line,' Can No Longer Be Ignored
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North Korea leader Kim Jong Un accused the United States of hostility and threats, which he used as a reason to resume testing of nuclear explosives and intercontinental balli...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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New Report Addresses Dealing with a Taliban Controlled Afghanistan
Press Release
Washington, January 20, 2022—Nearly 20 years after U.S. forces overturned Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the country is likely to reemerge as a terrorist hotbed. While competing...
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Sound Familiar? Trump, Biden and the World Stage
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In his first foreign policy speech as president, Joe Biden couldn’t have been clearer: “America is back,” he assured the world, and he vowed to “course-correct our foreign pol...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
