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NATO Secretary General sounds notes of caution for alliance
Richard Fontaine | April 03, 2019
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Maintaining America’s Coercive Economic Strength
Introduction U.S. foreign policy officials have embraced economic sanctions as a tool of choice for American foreign policy. Decisionmakers have deployed sanctions against str...
Intelligence Oversight Priorities for the 116th Congress
Introduction Congressional oversight is essential for providing accountability for the activities of the intelligence services.1 Effective oversight by the congressional intel...
Military, Veterans, & Society
Helping Special Needs Families and Improving Military Readiness
The Department of Defense (DoD) is moving out on efforts to rebuild the warfighting readiness of the joint force with the objective of reducing the number of nondeployable ser...
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How China tried and failed to win the AI race: The inside story
In The News
Chances are you've seen the stories, with headlines like "AI-driven technologies reshape city life in Beijing" or "Robots serving up savory food at Chinese artificial intellig...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Meet the Future Unmanned Force
In The News
Two new autonomous aircraft concepts that promise to redefine the Air Force’s unmanned fleet are moving forward. The latest, Skyborg, is an autonomous drone prototyping progr...
By Paul Scharre
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Dateline Washington: Between Peace, Washington and Israel’s Elections
In The News
It was nearly impossible to walk in the hallways outside the House Foreign Affairs Committee this Wednesday without being asked about the upcoming elections in Israel. Members...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump Learns to Live With NATO—And Vice Versa
In The News
Two-plus years into the Trump presidency, NATO is learning to live with the United States president, and vice versa. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has been praised f...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Feds are investigating possible Chinese spying at Mar-a-Lago and Cindy Yang, sources say
In The News
Federal authorities are investigating possible Chinese intelligence operations targeting President Donald Trump and his private Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago, sources familiar w...
By Peter Harrell
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To Remind You of My Love: Reforming the Impulsive Affection of U.S. Efforts to Build Partner Militaries
The movie Downfall, about the final days of Adolf Hitler, contains a scene that has been turned into countless memes with various subtitles. In the original, Hitler learns tha...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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‘How Is Yoda?’: An Appreciation Of Andy Marshall
By Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr.
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The Influence of Commercial Space Capabilities on Deterrence
By John J. Klein
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To Remind You of My Love: Reforming the Impulsive Affection of U.S. Efforts to Build Partner Militaries
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How China tried and failed to win the AI race: The inside story
Chances are you've seen the stories, with headlines like "AI-driven technologies reshape city life in Beijing" or "Robots serving up savory food at Chinese artificial intellig...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Feds are investigating possible Chinese spying at Mar-a-Lago and Cindy Yang, sources say
By Peter Harrell
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Two Ways for the United States to Deepen Diplomatic Engagement with ASEAN
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How China tried and failed to win the AI race: The inside story
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Helping Special Needs Families and Improving Military Readiness
The Department of Defense (DoD) is moving out on efforts to rebuild the warfighting readiness of the joint force with the objective of reducing the number of nondeployable ser...
By Lt Col Brad Orgeron
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Veterans shouldn't have to shoulder VA errors: VA debt collection must be improved
By Kayla M. Williams
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The Necessary Impact of Captain Marvel on the Military
By Emma Moore
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Helping Special Needs Families and Improving Military Readiness
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Minister Jüri Luik on Baltic security, NATO, and Russia
Minister Jüri Luik, the Estonian Minister of Defense, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Rachel Rizzo to discuss Baltic security, NATO, and Russia....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Rachel Rizzo & Jüri Luik
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NATO Secretary General sounds notes of caution for alliance
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Learns to Live With NATO—And Vice Versa
By Rachel Rizzo
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Minister Jüri Luik on Baltic security, NATO, and Russia
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Dateline Washington: Between Peace, Washington and Israel’s Elections
It was nearly impossible to walk in the hallways outside the House Foreign Affairs Committee this Wednesday without being asked about the upcoming elections in Israel. Members...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Knowing when to walk: What is the best alternative to a formal US-Saudi nuclear agreement?
By Eric Brewer
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How a 'smarter' Islamic state is quietly taking over swathes of Syria after ISIS defeat
By Nicholas Heras
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Dateline Washington: Between Peace, Washington and Israel’s Elections
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Why Trump’s sanctions aren’t working
On March 22, President Trump tweeted that he ordered the “withdrawal” of North Korea sanctions. It is still unclear whether he pulled back an upcoming package of North Korea s...
By David Cohen
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Maintaining America’s Coercive Economic Strength
By Howard Berman, Paula J. Dobriansky, Sue E. Eckert, Kimberly Ann Elliot, David L. Goldwyn, Peter Harrell, Theodore Kassinger, George Lopez, Richard Nephew, Stephen Rademaker, Frederick Reynolds, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Daleep Singh, Julianne Smith, Adam Szubin, Juan Zarate & Rachel Ziemba
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Five Years after Crimea, What have We Learned About Sanctioning Russia?
By Neil Bhatiya
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Why Trump’s sanctions aren’t working
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How China tried and failed to win the AI race: The inside story
Chances are you've seen the stories, with headlines like "AI-driven technologies reshape city life in Beijing" or "Robots serving up savory food at Chinese artificial intellig...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Meet the Future Unmanned Force
By Paul Scharre
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The Future of AI: Pentagon’s New Center Leading the Way
By Kara Frederick
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How China tried and failed to win the AI race: The inside story
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How swarming drones will change warfare
In February, the defence secretary said "swarm squadrons" will be deployed by the British armed forces in the coming years. The US has also been testing interconnected, co-ope...
By Paul Scharre
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The future of war: Autonomous weapons, AI, and cyberwarfare
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Erin Simpson
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Loren DeJonge Schulman on Drones
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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How swarming drones will change warfare
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Polybius, Applied History, and Grand Strategy in an Interstitial Age
Sometime around 118 B.C., a boar-hunting octogenarian cantering through southern Greece suddenly fell off his horse. The sprightly retiree — who ended up succumbing to his inj...
By Iskander Rehman
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Trump, trouble spots and Mueller: US expert Fontaine in conversation
By Richard Fontaine
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Far-Right Extremism and the Christchurch Massacre: Adapting to New Threats
By Carrie Cordero
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Polybius, Applied History, and Grand Strategy in an Interstitial Age
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Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class
Washington, October 4 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) congratulates three Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship alumni who were named as 2017–20...
By Neal Urwitz
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Drone Proliferation
By Elisa Catalano Ewers, Lauren Fish, Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class
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How Jeanne Shaheen Fills a Void in Trump’s Foreign Policy
It’s not easy being one of the few women to play a senior role in the making of American foreign policy. Twenty-five months into his presidency, Donald Trump’s national securi...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Nancy Pelosi and Theresa May are Leading on Borrowed Time
By Livia Godaert & Chris Estep
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Bombshell: Come What May
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Lindsay Cohn, Radha Iyengar & Erin Simpson
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How Jeanne Shaheen Fills a Void in Trump’s Foreign Policy
