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Chatty Pompeo strikes early contrast with reclusive Tillerson
In The News
Mike Pompeo, the new secretary of state, is leaning hard into the side of the job his predecessor seemed to hate the most: public relations. Within hours of being confirmed la...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump floats idea of meeting Kim on the border of Koreas in hopes of ‘a great celebration’
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President Trump on Monday said he is considering holding his summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone with South Korea, rather than in a third-p...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Weapons Training Likely Causes Brain Injury in Troops, Study Says
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Thousands of U.S. troops are likely suffering traumatic brain injury not just from battlefield explosions but from repeated exposure to trauma while training on their own weap...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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What Happens When Your Bomb-Defusing Robot Becomes a Weapon
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Micah Xavier Johnson spent the last day of his life in a standoff, holed up in a Dallas community-college building. By that point, he had already shot 16 people. Negotiators w...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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For Pompeo, Senate Confirmation Was the Easy Part
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is as secure as any Trump administration official can be. He’s close to the president, understands Congress and has been welcomed by subordinate...
By Richard Fontaine
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When weapons can think for themselves
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ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) is on the march, for good and ill. The AI that makes possible self-driving cars and diagnoses diseases more accurately than doctors will save live...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Welcomes Ely Ratner as Vice President and Director of Studies and Shawn Turner as Director of Communication
Press Release
Washington, D.C. April 26 2018 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce today that Ely Ratner has joined the Center as the new Vice President and...
By Shawn Turner & Ely Ratner
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Why are Militants Using Drones? UAV Weapons have Spread Far Beyond Nation States
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The first airstrike ever launched from an unmanned drone was a failure. On October 7, 2001—the first night of the war in Afghanistan—a CIA Predator drone buzzed above a compou...
By Paul Scharre
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Can Obama’s National Security Braintrust Get Elected in the Age of Trump?
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When the Democratic Party opened its first small campaign office in congressional candidate Andy Kim’s suburban New Jersey district, he and his team expected a modest turnout....
By Julianne Smith
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A sober treatise on the future of warfare warns of the perils of autonomous robotic combatants
Sooner than you may think, robotic swarms will intercept incoming missiles at hypersonic speed, while dueling cyberattacks and countermeasures transpire at nearly the speed of...
By Paul Scharre
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Book Review: "Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War"
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Scharre, a former U.S. Army Ranger, has thought more than most about the implications of autonomous weapons. He has spent time not only among their designers and operators but...
By Paul Scharre
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An Unpredictable Trump and a Risk-Prone Kim Mean High Stakes and Mismatched Expectations
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When Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear historian who has studied crises and breakthroughs dating to the earliest Cold War arms races, tried to imagine the possible outcomes of Presi...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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How Jim Mattis Became Trump’s “Last Man Standing”
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Last Tuesday, after waking up to tweet about the previous day’s F.B.I. raid on his lawyer’s office (“a total witch hunt!!!”), President Trump called one of his outside Republi...
By Julianne Smith
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Can Macron Keep Trump From Shredding the Iran Deal?
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As if the upcoming nuclear summit with North Korea, the latest U.S. intervention in Syria, and President Trump’s controversial new national security team weren’t generating en...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Will our next war be fought among the stars?
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Sitting at the controls of a Boeing space-flight simulator, “docking” the company’s planned “Starliner” craft with an imaginary space station, you begin to understand why the ...
By Robert O. Work
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Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Work With the Pentagon
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Is Silicon Valley going to war? In 2013, Amazon beat IBM for a contract to host the United States intelligence community’s data cloud. Microsoft now markets Azure Government S...
By Robert O. Work & Elsa B. Kania
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Bolton dealing to build an Arab military force in Syria
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President Donald Trump's newly minted national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo are among those spearheading a push to build a coalition...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria: US in talks over Arab force to replace American troops
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The Trump administration is renewing an effort to replace US troops in Syria with an Arab force, but the proposal faces substantial obstacles and could potentially exacerbate ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Has Democracy Lost Its Appeal?
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The lead package of the May/June 2018 issue of Foreign Affairs is on democracy. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of experts for their take. As with...
By Richard Fontaine & Julianne Smith
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It looks like defense secretary James Mattis wants the record to show he urged Trump to be cautious with Syria air strikes
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US Defense Secretary James Mattis may have used leaks about strikes on Syria to distance himself from President Donald Trump and potentially negative fallout from Friday's US-...
By Nicholas Heras
