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VideoGrowing conflict between Pentagon and tech engineers
A dozen Google employees quit this week after more than 3,000 signed a petition demanding the tech giant not partner with the Pentagon; national security correspondent Jennife...
By Paul Scharre
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CommentaryPresident Trump’s Strategy and Style Better for North Korea Than Iran
American presidents have long found double-trouble in managing Iran and North Korea. The two countries are separated by four thousand miles and starkly different histories, bu...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Sarah Donilon
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PodcastChina One Belt, One Road ensnares small nations in severe indebtedness
Center for a New American Security President Richard Fontaine speaks on the show about his new piece in Foreign Policy Magazine with Dan Kliman on the creeping illiberal influ...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Kliman
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CommentaryOn China’s New Silk Road, Democracy Pays A Toll
Great power competition is back. And China is now combining its vast economic resources with a muscular presence on the global stage. One of Beijing’s key efforts is the Belt ...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Kliman
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CommentaryLeaving the Iran Nuclear Deal Will Have Unintended Consequences
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear deal and reinstate all U.S. sanctions won’t deliver punishing economic pressure capable o...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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CommentaryHow the exit from the Iran deal will hurt the effectiveness of U.S. sanctions
After more than a year of negotiations and crises, President Trump decided to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal last week as he announced that the United States would unilat...
By Edoardo Saravalle & Axel Hellman
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PodcastLithuanian Vice Minister of Defense talks cyber strategy and security
Edvinas Kerza, Vice Minister of the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense, sits down with Julie Smith and Rachel Rizzo to discuss the country's new cyber report, evolving threats in ...
By Julianne Smith, Rachel Rizzo & Edvinas Kerza
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VideoWhat you need to know about the U.S. embassy’s move to Jerusalem
At least 52 Palestinian protesters were killed in clashes with Israeli troops near the Gaza border as the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem was officially opened Monday, Gaza's Health...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Dish | May 15, 2018
Welcome to The Dish! Curated by the CNAS Transatlantic Security Team, the Dish sends you the latest in transatlantic relations once a week. If this is your first time receivin...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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CommentaryWhat's Wrong with the Defense Department's 2019 Budget Request - and What Congress Can Do to Fix It
The Trump administration had a rare opportunity in the 2019 planning and budgeting cycle. For most of its time in office, the Obama administration requested more for defense t...
By Susanna V. Blume
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PodcastIran Sanctions and the Showdown in East Asia
US sanctions against Iranian oil buyers go back into force in early November, and the Treasury Department has instructed countries to make significant cuts to their imports in...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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PodcastDo Sanctions Work?
US President Donald Trump is bringing back sanctions on Iran and is threatening to extend the sanctions to European companies that do business there. The Iran announcement cam...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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CommentaryCombat High
Afew months before the United States invaded Iraq, in 2003, Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary at the time, was asked on a radio show how long the war would take. “Five da...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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CommentaryExit the Peacemaker
Monday, as an American delegation including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Steve Mnuchin, and top Republicans from Congress gathers for a ceremony to mark the transfer of the U....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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CommentaryThe US Should Embrace the EU’s New Defense-Cooperation Plan
In late December, all but three European Union nations agreed to activate the continent’s latest, and perhaps most promising, effort to coordinate their defense investments. T...
By Rachel Rizzo & Gene Germanovich
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CommentaryDonald Trump’s Shadow War
Five days after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump dined with some members of his national security team. During the meal, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and...
By Stephen Tankel
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VideoValues Diplomacy
CNAS’s Patrick Cronin joins J. James Kim, Michael J. Green, Hikotani Takako, and James B. Steinberg for a discussion on values diplomacy at the Asan Plenum 2018 Night Session....
By Patrick M. Cronin
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PodcastTrump-North Korea Summit Is A Game Changer, Fontaine Says
David Greene talks to Richard Fontaine, ex-foreign policy adviser to Sen. John McCain, about a dramatic week in U.S. foreign policy. Fontaine is president of the Center for a ...
By Richard Fontaine
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CommentaryThe Accompany They Keep: What Niger Tell Us About Accompany Missions, Combat, and Operations Other than War
The Department of Defense just released the public report on the ambush in Niger last October that killed four U.S. soldiers — a succinct eight-page summary of the reportedly ...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Or when a weapon that can hunt its own targets is hacked? Although it sounds like science fiction, the...
By Paul Scharre