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Commentary
Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Holding DHS Accountable for a Child’s Death in the Custody of Border PatrolProPublica published an extensive investigative report last week detailing the circumstances surrounding the death of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez. The teenag...
By Carrie Cordero, Heidi Li Feldman & Chimène Keitner
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Don’t Believe Netanyahu. Israel Doesn’t Need The Jordan Valley. Here’s Why.
Commentary
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, concurrent with rising speculations that the Trump administration may suppor...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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NATO Is Struggling Under Trans-Atlantic Tensions
Commentary
NATO leaders gathered in London this week for a brief summit marking the alliance’s 70th anniversary. The trans-Atlantic community looked on with trepidation—not because there...
By Jim Townsend & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
The Many Questions Trump’s Pardons Raise About Civil-Military RelationsWhen President Donald Trump granted pardons to two Army officers—one convicted of war crimes, the other accused of them—and reversed the demotion of a Navy SEAL who was convic...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump has three options with North Korea to avoid a dangerous perfect storm in Asia
Commentary
In the next few weeks, the Korean Peninsula will face a watershed moment -- one which could upend the United States' alliances in northeast Asia and regional stability as a wh...
By Duyeon Kim
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Russia’s AI Quest is State-Driven — Even More than China’s. Can It Work?More than Western governments and even more than China’s, the Russian government is trying to position itself as a facilitator of innovation in artificial intelligence, the te...
By Samuel Bendett
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
Rethinking How and Who to Recruit: Disrupting Talent ManagementThis is the written version of a speech delivered at the Royal United Services 2019 Land Warfare Conference in June 2019. In order to remain competitive in a new strategic env...
By Emma Moore
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Decide, Disrupt, Destroy: Information Systems in Great Power Competition with ChinaThe 2018 US National Defense Strategy (NDS) cites Russia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as “revisionist powers” that “want to shape a world consistent with their aut...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Upending the 5G Status Quo with Open ArchitectureThis article is adapted in part from written testimony the author submitted to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
Attrition and the Will to Fight a Great Power WarA nation’s capability and will to fight are interdependent critical factors in determining military operational success in conflict. The possibility of a kinetic war, however ...
By Emma Moore
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
The military needs immigrants. The Trump administration wants to keep them out.Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is now the latest in a line of immigrants challenged about whether it’s truly possible for them to serve the United States as patriots. Vindman, a r...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
Mental health care isn’t one-and-done — like any journey, you have to commitThe "suck it up and drive on" mentality permeated our years in the U.S. military and often led us to delay getting both physical and mental health care. As veterans, we now un...
By Kayla M. Williams & Kyleanne Hunter
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A fresh approach to peace in Afghanistan
Commentary
An effective peace process is possible and desirable in Afghanistan. Success, however, will require a careful, step-by-step course to test bona fides, build confidence, reduce...
By Earl Anthony Wayne & Christopher D. Kolenda
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Preparing the Military for a Role on an Artificial Intelligence BattlefieldThe Defense Innovation Board—an advisory committee of tech executives, scholars, and technologists—has unveiled its list of ethical principles for artificial intelligence (AI)...
By Megan Lamberth
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Trump’s Boasts of an Economic ‘Boom’ Are Misplaced and Misguided
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President Donald Trump this week laid out his most direct case yet for staying the course in the run-up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In a speech to the Economic Clu...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Trump was right to abandon the Taliban peace deal. Here’s what a good one would look like.
Commentary
Two months after President Trump declared U.S.-Taliban peace talks “dead,” diplomacy with the Afghan insurgents is reviving. With the administration already having negotiated ...
By David H. Petraeus & Vance Serchuk
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Commentary
Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
The Enduring Relevance of Reagan’s Westminster SpeechEditor’s Note: This is the third in a series of three essays, commissioned by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, examining the legacy of Reagan’s Westmin...
By Richard Fontaine
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Commentary
Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
National Security Is Made of PeopleFor several years, members of Congress and senior defense officials have worried, dramatically and out loud, about the state of military readiness, devoting bipartisan harangu...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump Needs to Reestablish Deterrence with Iran
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The attack attributed to Iran on Saudi Aramco oil facilities is the latest in a series of Iranian escalations—the May 14 and June 13 tanker attacks, the June 20 downing of a U...
By Kaleigh Thomas & Elisa Catalano Ewers
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Artificial Intel: Time Is Not On America’s SideThe United States reached a crucial milestone on its road to crafting a true national strategy for artificial intelligence (AI) this week. On Monday, the National Security Com...
By Martijn Rasser
