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China’s Strategic Ambiguity and Shifting Approach to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Commentary
On April 13, China’s delegation to United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systemsannounced the “desire to negotiate and conclude” a new prot...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Trump's Rhetoric Doesn't Necessarily Match His Administration's Actions in Syria
Podcast
President Trump's threats suggested U.S. military action against Syria might be more robust than it actually was. It's not the first time Trump's actions have proven more rest...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Operational-Level Strikes Finally Enforce Obama’s Red Line
Commentary
By all accounts, Friday night’s strikes against the Assad regime’s chemical-weapons facilities were successful — they reduced their targets to rubble, and there were no report...
By Lauren Fish
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An Obama alumna analyzes the Syria strikes
Michèle Flournoy — former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy under President Obama, co-founder and managing director of WestExec Advisors, and former CEO of the Center for ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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UN holds emergency meeting on Syria chemical attack
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CBSN interviews CNAS Middle East Security Fellow Nicholas Heras on the newest US strikes and the evolving American policy in Syria. Watch the full clip here. ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump Was Right to Hit Syria. But He Should Stop There.
Commentary
Thank goodness: President Donald Trump’s decision to launch limited missile strikes against chemical weapons facilities in Syria was an appropriate use of force—and a relief a...
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Making the Case for an ‘Artificial Intelligence Agency’
Video
Artificial Intelligence is a new paradigm, not just in the civilian government, but on the battlefield as well. However, making sure the U.S. stays on the forefront of AI rese...
By Robert O. Work
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How network tools can improve base security
In 2011, the simple exploitation of an existing data set could have prevented a near disaster in northern Afghanistan. Then, an entire operations center watched as the feed fr...
By Kara Frederick
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Deconstructed Podcast: Is Trump About to Start an Illegal War with Syria?
Podcast
The war in Syria is seemingly without end: Seven long years of bloodshed, terror, foreign interventions and — perhaps most horrifically — the use of chemical ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump Faces 'Red Line Moment' for Syria Options, CNAS says
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Nicholas Heras, Center for a New American Security, Middle East Security Fellow, explains Trumps military options with Syria. He speaks with Haidi Lun and Betty Liu on "Bloom...
By Nicholas Heras
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Conversations in Diplomacy: Ambassador Victoria Nuland
Podcast
In this installment of “Conversations in Diplomacy," the Future of Diplomacy Project's Faculty Director Nicholas Burns is joined by Ambassador Victoria Nuland, the former Assi...
By Victoria Nuland
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Will China’s New Trade/Debt Diplomacy Strategy Reshape The World?
The nationalistic China Dream represents the ambitious choreography of the Chinese Communist Party. Sino-centrism is apparent in the original formulation of “One Belt, One Roa...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Will killer robots save us or destroy humanity? | The Stream
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A group of scientists is campaigning for a preemptive ban on autonomous weapons technology that may someday power what they call "killer robots”. Those who support the develop...
By Paul Scharre
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Here’s What the Senate Should Ask Mike Pompeo
Commentary
The U.S. Senate’s consideration of CIA Director Mike Pompeo for confirmation as secretary of state is a critical inflection point for U.S. foreign policy. Some consider Pompeo...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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It's a Space Renaissance!
Podcast
This week the team discusses forward basing ships in the Baltic and Black seas and the MQ-25 acquisition. And Former Secretary of the Air Force, The Honorable Deborah Lee Jame...
By Susanna V. Blume, Jerry Hendrix, Adam Routh, Lauren Fish & Deborah Lee James
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WATCH: CNAS' "Across the Pond, In the Field" effort travels to Salt Lake City, Utah
On our second “Across the Pond, In the Field” trip, CNAS traveled to the beautiful (and cold!) U.S. mountain west to Salt Lake City, Utah. We brought Lars Gert Lose, Ambassado...
By Julianne Smith, Rachel Rizzo, Lars Gert Lose & Desmond Brown
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The Dish | April 10, 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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Deep State Radio Podcast: The Steering Wheel Doesn't Connect to the Engine
Podcast
John Bolton’s first day as National Security Advisor presents him with the kind of opportunities he has waited his entire life for—a choice between worsening relations a...
By Julianne Smith
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Human judgment and lethal decision-making in war
For the fifth year in a row, government delegates meet at the United Nationsin Geneva to discuss autonomous weapons. Meanwhile, the technology that enables greater autonomy in...
By Paul Scharre
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Meet the New Robot Army
Commentary
In contemporary sci-fi—HBO’s “Westworld,” for example—sentient machines take up arms against humanity. In the real world, intelligent—and increasingly autonomous—robots are be...
By Paul Scharre
