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Korean summit sets stage for major test of commitment
Commentary
The summit between North Korea's Kim Jong-un and the South's Moon Jae-in was rich in symbolism and breathtaking in its dramatics. The two leaders — who just months ago were pr...
By Richard Fontaine
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Choose Carefully, Mr. President
Commentary
The scandalous withdrawal of VA secretary nominee Adm. Ronny Jackson on Thursday was just the latest episode in a long stretch of chaos at the Department of Veterans Affairs. ...
By Andrew Swick
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Is It Wishful Thinking to Expect the U.S. to Return to the Paris Climate Deal?
Commentary
In his staunch defense of multilateralism delivered to the U.S. Congress earlier this week, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his hope that the United States would no...
By Neil Bhatiya
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The future of war will be fought by machines, but will humans still be in charge?
Commentary
Drone swarms. Self-driving tanks. Autonomous sentry guns. Sometimes it seems like the future of warfare arrived on our doorstep overnight, and we’ve all been caught unprepared...
By Paul Scharre
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The first drone warship just joined the Navy and now nearly every element of it is classified
Commentary
The first warship to traverse open waters without a single crew member recently joined the U.S. Navy's fleet after eight years of development and testing. And now nearly every...
By Paul Scharre
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Don't Let Up on North Korea Now
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may or may not be right in thinking that its “maximum pressure” campaign has brought North Korea to the bargaining table. Wha...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Congress should kickstart the response to virtual currencies
Commentary
Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are no longer just a technological novelty or a speculative bubble. They are affecting U.S. national security. To face their potential thr...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Edoardo Saravalle
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Mike Pompeo Needs to Clean Up After Rex Tillerson
Commentary
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’
Commentary
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
Commentary
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
Commentary
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
Commentary
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?
Commentary
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
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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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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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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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
