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Trump Holds Series of Meetings With Foreign Leaders
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Richard Fontaine, a former foreign policy adviser to Senator John McCain, agreed that Mr. Trump’s meetings were not extraordinary. But he said it was unusual for a foreign lea...
By Richard Fontaine
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Lawmakers still conflicted about giving Israel weapons
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Another factor that could complicate the picture: Lawmakers want to block offensive weapons from going to Israel. But F-15s, often considered to be offensive, were used to sho...
By Jonathan Lord
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Supreme Court sides with Army veteran in overlapping GI Bill benefits case
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Kate Kuzminski, director of the Center for a New American Security, a Washington D.C. think tank’s military program said the number of impacted veterans may be smaller than th...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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After shooting down Iranian munitions, Jordan defiant in uncomfortable spotlight
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In the view of Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East security program at the Center for a New American Security, the situation is complicated by the reality of the benefi...
By Jonathan Lord
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Yellen: U.S. will levy sanctions against Iran over attack on Israel
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Among the most obvious remaining options is aggressively expanding sanctions on Chinese firms that have bought large quantities of Iranian crude oil exports, which have provid...
By Rachel Ziemba
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3 Ways Israel Could Respond to Iran
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But even as Netanyahu’s war cabinet calls for a rapid response, experts are urging the Israelis not to rush into the decision. “There’s the people who are playing chess, the p...
By Jonathan Lord
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Iranian and Chinese Drones Are Overwhelming American Warships—But This High-Tech Weapon Could Help Them Fight Back
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On March 27, 2024, a U.S. warship in the Red Sea detected four radar tracks headed directly its way from Yemen. It fit the tell-tale pattern of drone attacks that Houthi rebel...
By Paul Scharre
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US-China competition to field military drone swarms could fuel global arms race
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The unchecked spread of swarm technology “could lead to more instability and conflict around the world,” said Margarita Konaev, an analyst with Georgetown University’s Center ...
By Paul Scharre
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Biden’s ‘Coalitions of the Willing’ Foreign-Policy Doctrine
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“These minilateral meetings among three or four countries have really become a hallmark of the Biden administration’s strategy of developing a loose network of security relati...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden’s historic three-way meeting
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A senior Biden official said a joint statement between the three countries will contain “very strong language.” Following joint naval exercises this week, the three leaders wi...
By Lisa Curtis
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Tough elections loom over Biden’s Japan summit
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Japan’s decision to boost defense spending is also a helpful rhetorical weapon for Tokyo to quell doubts about its security commitments, experts say. Japan is currently undert...
By Lisa Curtis
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Big opposition win in South Korean parliament election poses setback to President Yoon
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“This election is an assessment of Yoon’s presidency. The stakes for him are whether he’s able to fully implement his liberal democratic agenda, which is his top priority,” Du...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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NATO Doesn’t Have Enough Troops
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The biggest factor that has driven down recruitment, experts think, is the lack of an existential U.S. national security threat. “We’re victims of our own success,” said Kate ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Trump will see nuclear subs as a ‘win-win’, US foreign policy guru predicts
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One of America’s leading foreign policy thinkers has played down fears that Donald Trump could discard the AUKUS pact or seek revenge against Australian ambassador Kevin Rudd ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Montana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015
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The Sheehy campaign did not respond to the ranger’s contention that he inspected the weapon or saw a missing bullet but noted the ranger did not mention a missing bullet in hi...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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NATO chief’s final battle: Protecting Ukraine from Trump, US
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“This is not just Trump-proofing, but U.S.-proofing in some ways,” said Jim Townsend, an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security and a former senior ...
By Jim Townsend
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Modi’s Messenger to the World
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Lisa Curtis, a former U.S. government official who dealt with Jaishankar during the 2005 nuclear deal negotiations as well as in his time at the Indian Embassy in Washington, ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Ukraine's AI Drone Gamble
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With machine vision, the objective is for the drone to find its way independently to its target, having learned to distinguish where it is in a given terrain. "The main goal i...
By Samuel Bendett
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Trump-proofing weapons for Ukraine: Allies consider moving arms group into NATO
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Formalizing the group within NATO would go a long way toward protecting support for Ukraine from changes in U.S. and Western governments, experts said — and particularly from ...
By Jim Townsend
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Kim Jong Un Faces Annihilation in Most Korea War Scenarios
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If Kim misjudged and thought the US and South Korea were looking to end his regime — instead of just deliver a message of deterrence — he might preemptively use a nuclear weap...
By Duyeon Kim
