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PodcastDanish Ambassador Lars Gert Lose on US-Danish relations and visiting Salt Lake City
Danish Ambassador Lars Gert Lose recently visited Salt Lake City with the Transatlantic Security Team as a part of the Across The Pond, In The Field project. Hear Ambassador L...
By Julianne Smith
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CommentaryThe US Navy’s New Frigate Should Jumpstart a Revitalization of the Defense Industrial Base
The United States Navy requires a frigate. Building this warship will strengthen our depleted naval fleet and reenergize a vital sector of the nation’s defense industrial base...
By Jerry Hendrix
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VideoNew and Old Empires: Robert Kaplan presents at the World Economic Forum
Geography is not destiny, but it may be the best starting point for understanding world politics. In a world of shifting alliances and divides, how are geography and the histo...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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CommentaryCongress Just Made Bipartisan Progress Against Terrorism
Last year brought news both good and bad in the fight against terrorism. On the positive side, the Islamic State’s brutal “caliphate” has virtually collapsed under a U.S.-led ...
By Richard Fontaine
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CommentaryU.S. Sanctions Abet Iranian Internet Censorship
President Donald Trump has threatened to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement if Tehran does not agree to renegotiate its terms this spring. But rather than tear up the nucl...
By Peter Harrell
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Message to Western leaders: stop obsessing about Trump
It may not feel like it, but the transatlantic security relationship finished the first year of Trump’s presidency a little better than where it started. After the drubbing NA...
By Jim Townsend
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CommentaryAmerica is aggravating the Palestinian problem
United States Vice-President Mike Pence is on a trip to Egypt, Jordan and Israel, to support the efforts of the administration of US President Donald Trump in pursuing an “ult...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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CommentaryThis Is Not a Drill
The erroneous “missile threat” alert sent to thousands of Americans’ phones in Hawaii on Saturday probably would have been dismissed as an obvious mistake if received just mon...
By Andrew Swick
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Congressional TestimonyChildren of Shawn Brimley Educational Fund
Shawn Brimley was a treasured friend, colleague, husband and father. He passed away on January 9 after a battle with cancer. He is already dearly missed by us all. Shawn and M...
By Shawn Brimley
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CommentaryAmerica's Economic Future Hinges on Its Partnership with Asia
Nearly a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration has started to craft a strategic narrative for its approach to Asia. This is atypical: it took Barack Obama ne...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Kliman
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PodcastRobert Work talks NATO's technological innovation and the DoD
CNAS Senior Counselor for Defense and former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work sits down with CNAS experts Julie Smith and Jim Townsend to discuss Third Offset strategy ...
By Robert O. Work, Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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CommentaryBreaking the Iran Deal and Imposing New Sanctions Would Hurt Iranian Protesters Most
The popular demonstrations that erupted in Iran in late December, the largest since the Green Movement protests in 2009, have created a pretext for the Trump administration to...
By Neil Bhatiya & Edoardo Saravalle
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CommentaryTo Strengthen Trump’s National Security Approach, Promote Human Rights
In a series of tweets on New Year’s Eve, President Donald Trump expressed strong support for Iranians protesting against their autocratic regime. He added that the United Stat...
By Richard Fontaine & John Bellinger
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CommentaryBitcoin can help terrorists secretly fund their deadly attacks
One of the latest tools terrorists are using isn’t a new kind of bomb, gun, suicide vest or other device that can kill and maim. The tool is bitcoin, the virtual currency crea...
By Edoardo Saravalle & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Congressional TestimonyTestimony before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
Submitted Written Testimony...
By Paul Scharre
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CommentaryTrump and His Strategy of Ambiguity
President Donald Trump’s rhetoric has shocked the diplomatic world. His size-of-nuclear-button tweets, his observation that China had been caught “red-handed” giving illegal a...
By Jerry Hendrix
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CommentaryBringing the national security debate beyond Washington
Washingtonians who work on national security often pride themselves on how much they know about the world. Many of the nation’s top security experts speak foreign languages an...
By Julianne Smith
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VideoDr. Patrick Cronin on Fox: Is a new Cold War with China brewing?
China continues to build up its military force in response to the administration's America First policy. What does this mean for the future of the U.S.-China relationship? Dr...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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VideoDavid Asher on CNN: US military drills postponed - a win for Kim?
The US and South Korea won't hold military drills during the Winter Olympics. Is North Korea's Kim Jong Un getting exactly what he wants, with nothing in return? CNAS' David ...
By David Asher
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CommentaryReview: ‘The Road Not Taken’ in Vietnam
Edward Lansdale (1908-87) was one of America’s most important military thinkers and practitioners, and yet he is barely known to the wider world. In “The Road Not Taken,” Max ...
By Robert D. Kaplan