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Women in National Security: Nicole Pilkus
Podcast
Nicole Pilkus, Deputy Director of the Maritime Safety Office National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, talks with CNAS expert Julie Smith about her career in the defense indust...
By Julianne Smith & Nicole Pilkus
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The Iran Protests: What Do We Know?
Podcast
CNAS expert Ilan Goldenberg breaks down the past week of protest in Iran and its global implications, with a focus on its impact on the future of the Iran nuclear deal. Hosted...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Countering Entropy in the New Year
Commentary
In a year-end summary, one of our nation’s major weekly news publications recently tweeted that one of its most-read articles featured former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbache...
By Jerry Hendrix
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From 'flags and footprints' to having a routine presence in space
Commentary
President Trump’s signing of Space Policy Directive 1 once again gives NASA a mission adjustment and beneficial goals. The directive recommits NASA to: “Lead an innovative and...
By Adam Routh
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US Alliances and Trump’s ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ Policy
Commentary
Any single year’s events can mask the true direction of longer-term trends. Time will tell, but I believe this is the case with respect to US policy toward the Asia-Pacific re...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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The Pentagon is using AI to fight ISIS but it's not quite the 'Terminator'
Commentary
Conversations about the military use of artificial intelligence usually bring to mind the "Terminator" movies, where a super-intelligent AI turns evil and tries to destroy hum...
By Gregory C. Allen
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The Oil and Gas Sector Is Changing — and So Is Geopolitics
Commentary
WINDFALLHow the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens American PowerBy Meghan L. O’Sullivan479 pp. Simon & Schuster. $29. Geopolitics is power played...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Expanding US-India Geoeconomic Cooperation Amid China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Commentary
The United States and India have an opportunity to co-define and co-implement a geoeconomic vision for the Indo-Pacific, based on shared values of freedom and transparency. Ho...
By Daniel Kliman & Manpreet Singh Anand
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Trump's NSS takes a harder line on China
Commentary
If translated into sustained action, the Trump administration's National Security Strategy will mark a departure from decades of U.S. policy, reframing China as a great power ...
By Daniel Kliman
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Why You Shouldn't Fear 'Slaughterbots'
Commentary
Killer drones in the hands of terrorists massacring innocents. Robotic weapons of mass destruction breeding chaos and fear. A video created by advocates of a ban on autonomous...
By Paul Scharre
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Project Maven brings AI to the fight against ISIS
Commentary
Maven is designed to be that pilot project, that pathfinder, that spark that kindles the flame front of artificial intelligence across the rest of the [Defense] Department. - ...
By Gregory C. Allen
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CNAS experts break down Trump's new National Security Strategy
Podcast
CNAS Deputy Director of Studies dives into the Trump administration's National Security Strategy, talking strategy development, messaging, and implementation with CNAS experts...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Jerry Hendrix, Ilan Goldenberg & Daniel Kliman
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Women in National Security: Amanda Sloat
Podcast
Amanda Sloat of the Brookings Institution shares what it's like working as a woman in national security....
By Dr. Amanda Sloat
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In a Chess Game with Putin, the Polish City of Gdansk Is Our Queen
Commentary
ladimir Putin is playing a vast chess game with NATO, and his next move is to invade the Baltic nations. When this happens, the United States will need to move armored forces ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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To Pluck a Brown Feathered Goose: On Being a Woman of Color in National Security
Commentary
As a field that centers on defense and foreign relations, national security has had a long history of being predominantly male. Recent public debate on women and national secu...
By Brittney Washington & Jeesue Lee
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Trump Should Mind the Gaps in His National Security Strategy
Commentary
President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy has been published and the early returns are in. Perhaps as with all things Trumpian, reactions are strongly-held and all o...
By Richard Fontaine
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Policy Roundtable: What to Make of Trump’s National Security Strategy
Commentary
Every time an American president releases a new National Security Strategy, it provokes a round of commentary on the document itself as well as an additional round of hand-wri...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for the Department of Defense?
Commentary
What happens to the Defense Department when the federal government shuts down? I can shed some light on this; in October 2013, I was a DoD civilian charged with helping to ens...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Amanda Sloat on recent European travel, hot-button issues of 2018
Podcast
Dr. Amanda Sloat, Julie Smith, and Jim Townsend all recently visited different European cities, from Brussels to Munich to Berlin. The latest episode of Brussels Sprouts highl...
By Julianne Smith & Dr. Amanda Sloat
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Trump's National Security Strategy Is Dead on Arrival
Commentary
If a national security strategy is developed by well-meaning, capable advisers, who have little control over an undisciplined and unpredictable president, is it worth the pape...
By Ilan Goldenberg
