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We’re Losing Our Chance to Regulate Killer Robots
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Scores of countries are gathering at the United Nations this week to discuss lethal autonomous weapon systems – essentially, robots that would pick their own targets. This mar...
By Paul Scharre
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Lethal Autonomous Weapons and Policy-Making Amid Disruptive Technological Change
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This week, countries are meeting at the United Nations to discuss lethal autonomous weapons and the line between human and machine decision-making. One complicating factor in ...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump's Post-Pivot Strategy
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s five-nation tour of Asia in November 2017 marks the inception of America’s post-pivot strategy. Through summitry and speeches, Trump set forth h...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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The Quad: US and its allies want insurance against instability and coercion in Asia
If all goes according to plan, officials from the United States, Australia, Japan and India will sit down together on the margins of next week's East Asia Summit. The gatherin...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Lethal Autonomous Weapons Governmental Meeting (Part I: Coping with Rapid Technological Change)
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This week nations meet at the United Nations to discuss lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), including robotic weapons that might hunt for targets on their own. It has bee...
By Paul Scharre
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Why ditching the Iran nuclear deal would be bad for China, India and the rest of Asia
Now that US President Donald Trump has declared that Iran is not in compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the status of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action depends on...
By Neil Bhatiya
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The Sum of Their Fears: The MQ-25 Stingray
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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” sayeth the Bard in a line with ominous foreboding. Such potent can also be read into the decision that Northrop Grumman was drop...
By Jerry Hendrix
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U.S.-China Trade: A Balanced Approach
Executive Summary President Trump is right to want to get the U.S. economy growing again and help those left behind. And he is right that in the past decade China has taken ad...
By Anja Manuel
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Elevating Deterrence on the Korean Peninsula
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As scripted, President Donald Trump’s five-nation Asian tour underscores the longstanding U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific region. Yet North Korea’s Kim Jong U...
By Patrick M. Cronin & David Asher
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The Gulf of Aden Needs US-China Maritime Cooperation
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While President Donald Trump has expressed optimism about his relationship with President Xi Jinping, U.S.-China relations seemed to have cooled because of tension over the No...
By Brittney Washington
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Emerging technology could make China the world’s next innovation superpower
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During China’s 19th Party Congress in October, President Xi Jinping placed innovation at the center of China’s national strategy. His remarks called for building China into a ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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In the Pentagon’s AT&L reorg, beware the Valley of Death
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The U.S. Department of Defense is in the process of reorganizing its acquisition enterprise, as directed by the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. Congress and the DoD i...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Will Killer Robots Be Banned? Lessons from Past Civil Society Campaigns
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After several years of debate, on November 13-17, 2017, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will convene a Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) to discuss the ...
By Michael Horowitz
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WATCH: CNAS Launches "Across the Pond, In the Field" Nationwide Outreach Program
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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin have launched a major new project, “Across the Pond, In the Field,” to engage ne...
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The Quiet Rivalry Between China and Russia
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China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative, an economic expansion plan that follows the trade routes of the medieval Tang and Yuan dynasties across Eurasia, is overly ambitious b...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Russia Loves a Shunned U.S. Soldier
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The photo shows a service member’s spouse weeping over her husband’s flag-draped casket, under a headline quoting an out of context snippet of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testi...
By Andrew Swick
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Washington Is Never Quite Sure Where It Is at War
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The United States is a nation at war. But for much of the past two decades, a great deal of the Pentagon’s overseas activities would not technically classify as combat, with a...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Prospects for a defense budget deal
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Susanna joins Government Matters TV to offer insight into negotiations over the National Defense Authorization Act. Watch the conversation here....
By Susanna V. Blume
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The War on Apathy
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Right now, Congress has no incentive to rein in America’s military actions around the world. A threat to reinstate the draft would give it one....
By Amy Schafer
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Middle East Security Forum 2017
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In a region long known for its complexity, the Middle East landscape seems to grow more complicated by the week. To help unpack the latest developments—about Iran’s nuclear pr...
By Michèle Flournoy, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
