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To Pluck a Brown Feathered Goose: On Being a Woman of Color in National Security
As a field that centers on defense and foreign relations, national security has had a long history of being predominantly male. Recent public debate on women and national secu...
By Brittney Washington & Jeesue Lee
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Trump Should Mind the Gaps in His National Security Strategy
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President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy has been published and the early returns are in. Perhaps as with all things Trumpian, reactions are strongly-held and all o...
By Richard Fontaine
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Policy Roundtable: What to Make of Trump’s National Security Strategy
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Every time an American president releases a new National Security Strategy, it provokes a round of commentary on the document itself as well as an additional round of hand-wri...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for the Department of Defense?
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What happens to the Defense Department when the federal government shuts down? I can shed some light on this; in October 2013, I was a DoD civilian charged with helping to ens...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Trump's National Security Strategy Is Dead on Arrival
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If a national security strategy is developed by well-meaning, capable advisers, who have little control over an undisciplined and unpredictable president, is it worth the pape...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump’s New National-Security Strategy Projects Confidence
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President Trump today unveiled his new National Security Strategy (NSS), exceeding the expectations of the national-security community by producing a remarkably coherent NSS w...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Congress Mandates New DoD Study Central to Understanding TBI
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the signature wound of today's conflicts, affecting more than 370,000 service members, and emerging evidence suggests troops may be exposed to ...
By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre
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Give Bad Faith a Chance in North Korea
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said this week that the U.S. was “ready to talk” to North Korea. The White House and State Department walked back that statement, but Mr. Till...
By Peter Harrell
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China Mistakenly Challenges Andrew Jackson to a Duel
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The United States Navy will be making a port call in Taiwan in the near future. The only questions that remain are where, when, and how many ships of what type will drop ancho...
By Jerry Hendrix
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A Rorschach Test for Civil-Military Relations
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Earlier this week, I wrote in Slate about how America’s military leaders have seemingly improvised a new norm of civil-military relations in response to President Donald Trump...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump must stop Venezuela from sliding toward total dictatorship
The Trump administration’s sanctions on Venezuela have succeeded in creating a cash crunch in Caracas. But with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro getting close to defaulting...
By Peter Harrell
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The Human Factor in the “Unmanned” Systems of the People's Liberation Army
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Even as the character of conflict is transformed by the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) on the battlefield, the human factor is no less important in this m...
By Elsa B. Kania
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How Many Battles Can the Pentagon Fight in Washington at Once?
Commentary
Agenda SecDef relaunched earlier this year with advice for then-new Secretary James Mattis, warning against the demands of unreasonable expectations in order to focus on five ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Lauren Fish
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Military Chiefs’ Reluctance to March
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In a dizzying series of tweets and news stories on Monday, the Pentagon appeared to simultaneously embrace transgender recruits while the Trump administration was losing its b...
By Phillip Carter
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CNAS Commentary: “The New York Bombing: What We Know and How Not to Curb the Threat”
Washington, December 12 – In the wake of a terrorist attack near the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Adjunct Senior Fellow Step...
By Stephen Tankel
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China Is On a Whole-of-Nation Push for AI. The US Must Match It
China has made no secret of its ambitions to lead the world in artificial intelligence, nor of the military and geopolitical advantage it hopes to gain from this rapidly advan...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Here’s How Both Obama and Trump Stoked the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry
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From the surprise resignation (then un-resignation) of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to the intra-Gulf crisis with Qatar to the battle for influence in post-Islamic Stat...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Foreign National Recruitment Must Stay True to Its Roots Under Trump Administration
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Last December, the U.S. Department of Defense suspended the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest Program, which responsible for recruiting foreign nationals livi...
By Jennie Kim & Jeesue Lee
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The Selfish Motive Behind Trump’s Jerusalem Decision
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Trump’s decision was all about placating his base. There is no other strategic rationale for taking this step now....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Artificial Intelligence and Chinese Power
The United States’ technological sophistication has long supported its military predominance. In the 1990s, the U.S. military started to hold an uncontested advantage over its...
By Elsa B. Kania
