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Mike Pompeo Needs to Clean Up After Rex Tillerson
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Incoming Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will inherit a State Department at a genuine inflection point. Devalued by the White House they serve, and feeling demoralized and bere...
By Richard Fontaine
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China’s AI talent ‘arms race’
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Perhaps, the real ‘arms race’ in artificial intelligence (AI) is not military competition but the battle for talent. Since the vast majority of the world’s top AI experts rema...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The promise and peril of military applications of artificial intelligence
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment in the national security space. While the public may still equate the notion of artificial intelligence in the military context...
By Michael Horowitz
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The Pursuit of AI Is More Than an Arms Race
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Are the U.S., China, and Russia recklessly undertaking an “AI arms race”? Clearly, there is military competition among these great powers to advance a range of applications of...
By Elsa B. Kania
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A new U.S. policy makes it (somewhat) easier to export drones
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The Trump administration just announced a new drone export policy designed to make it easier for U.S. companies to export drones, including armed drones. Given concerns about ...
By Michael Horowitz & Joshua Schwartz
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Will a Centralized Environmental Policy Speed Up the Greening of Chinese Society?
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As part of the same 13th National People’s Congress that abolished his term limits, Chinese President Xi Jinping oversaw a significant Cabinet reshuffle earlier this month. Th...
By Neil Bhatiya
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U.S. policy on North Korea entering unknown territory
The secret early April visit to Pyongyang by Mike Pompeo, the CIA Director and Secretary of State nominee, suggests that the unprecedented summit between President Trump and N...
By Richard Fontaine
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How to Make the U.S. Navy Great Again
ALONE AMONG the services, the Navy is always deployed. In wartime, all of the services deploy. In peacetime, the Army and Air Force train and exercise but do not deploy persis...
By Jerry Hendrix
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China’s Strategic Ambiguity and Shifting Approach to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
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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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Operational-Level Strikes Finally Enforce Obama’s Red Line
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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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Trump Was Right to Hit Syria. But He Should Stop There.
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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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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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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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Here’s What the Senate Should Ask Mike Pompeo
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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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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
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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
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America Abroad: 'Syria and Fragile States'
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An America Abroad program about fragile states like Syria. An exploration of why this instability happens, how it affects the people who live there, and the best way to get th...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Careful what you wish for—change and continuity in China’s cyber threat activities (part 2)
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At a time when ‘cyber anarchy’ seems to prevail in the international system, the emergence in 2015 of US–China consensus against ‘cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property’...
By Elsa B. Kania
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One Year Ago, Pundits Welcomed a Turning Point in Syria. They Were Wrong.
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A year ago, 59 U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles hit Syria’s Sharyrat airbase in response to a chemical weapons attack perpetrated by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assa...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Derek Chollet
