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Boosting VA funding is not enough to support veterans
Commentary
Trump’s proposed 2021 budget includes another significant increase for the Department of Veterans Affairs: a 13 percent increase to $90 billion for medical services, another $...
By Kayla M. Williams
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The Building Blocks of a Progressive Transatlantic Vision
Commentary
As the US presidential elections in November 2019 quickly approach, transatlanticists in the United States and Europe are trying to decipher what the next four years may bring...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Digital Repression in Autocracies
Commentary
Repression is a hallmark feature of authoritarian rule. It raises the costs of disloyalty and makes it more difficult for groups to mobilize against the regime (Wintrobe, 1998...
By Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Joseph Wright
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The VA has some serious problems with how it handles claims of military sexual trauma
Commentary
Imagine going to your doctor’s office for care. You walk in and go to the front desk to check in. But the front desk staff tells you that you can’t get care there. You’re not ...
By Kayla M. Williams & Samantha Kubek
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How Adversarial Attacks Could Destabilize Military AI Systems
Commentary
Artificial intelligence and robotic technologies with semi-autonomous learning, reasoning, and decision-making capabilities are increasingly being incorporated into defense, m...
By Dr. David Danks
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Veteran Benefits in U.S. Territories
Commentary
Each of the U.S. territories could do more to support veterans and make benefits more easily located....
By Emma Moore & Brent Peabody
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Why Doesn’t the U.S. Have Its Own Huawei?
Commentary
The Trump administration has tried one tactic after another to confront the rise of Huawei, the Chinese company that has been fighting to establish a dominant position in 5G. ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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For House, Senate National Security Committees, Stopgaps for Term Limits
Commentary
The primary election season for the next Congress opens officially on March 3, as states from California to Arkansas begin counting votes for candidates vying for seats in the...
By Chris Estep
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AI Deception: When Your Artificial Intelligence Learns to Lie
In artificial intelligence circles, we hear a lot about adversarial attacks, especially ones that attempt to “deceive” an AI into believing, or to be more accurate, classifyin...
By Heather Roff
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The American Public Wants a Sustainable Middle East Policy
Commentary
After the U.S. strike on Qasem Soleimani, Americans feared the United States was on the brink of war with Iran. “World War III draft” memes circulated around the internet, and...
By Kaleigh Thomas & Emma Moore
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Take Greenland Seriously and Literally as a Vital National Security Issue
Commentary
It is tempting to dismiss talk of Greenland’s significance for defense and foreign policy simply because President Trump infamously made it a punch line last year. The world’...
By David Priess & Martijn Rasser
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Faux News Articles and Social Media Posts Will Haunt This Election
Commentary
Last September, an image of a New York Times headline began circulating online, claiming that Abdullah Abdullah, a candidate for the Afghan presidency, had taken millions of d...
By Chris Estep & Megan Lamberth
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Power and Pretzels in Munich, 2020
Commentary
Once a year, the world’s foreign policy elite descend on Bavaria for a weekend to reconnect with colleagues, eat pretzels, and debate the shape of global order. The Munich Sec...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Iranian Missile Strike Did Far More Damage Than Trump Admits
Commentary
Over 100 American soldiers have been treated for traumatic brain injuries following Iran’s missile strike on Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq. The strike came in retaliation f...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Paul Scharre
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The Dangers of Manipulated Media in the Midst of a Crisis
Commentary
In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the internet was flooded with purportedly real-time information about the circ...
By Megan Lamberth
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Navigating the Billions
Commentary
Introduction If you have never interacted with the defense budget it can be daunting. The process is made up of dozens of acronyms and the data is spread over thousands of pag...
By Molly Parrish
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Digital Authoritarianism: Finding Our Way out of the Darkness
Commentary
From Chinese government surveillance in Hong Kong and Xinjiang to Russia’s sovereign internet law and concerns about foreign operatives hacking the 2020 elections, digital tec...
By Naazneen Barma, Brent Durbin & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Why We Need A New Cold War Strategic Approach
Commentary
The United States needs to create a set of long-term concerted strategies of a type not seen since the Cold War if it is to successfully compete against Russia and China. Thos...
By Will Mackenzie
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The Digital Dictators
Commentary
Rapid technological change will likely produce a cat-and-mouse dynamic as citizens and governments race to gain the upper hand....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright
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When the homefront becomes the (cyber) front line
Commentary
American soldiers have long marched off to war with one assurance: by fighting abroad they were keeping their families safe at home. Today, advances in digital technology comb...
By COL Sarah Albrycht
