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Russia Is Building an Army of Robot Weapons, and China's AI Tech Is Helping
In The News
Russia is developing an array of autonomous weapons platforms utilizing artificial intelligence as part of an ambitious push supported by high-tech cooperation with neighborin...
By Samuel Bendett & Jeffrey Edmonds
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Whose News?
In The News
The day Joe Biden was sworn in as president — January 20, 2021 — was a good day for news apps. Stuck at home due to the global pandemic, many Americans turned to their phones ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Red Cross Calls for More Limits on Autonomous Weapons
In The News
The International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for new international rules on how governments use autonomous weapons, warning that such weapons will pose new challeng...
By Paul Scharre
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Biden's new CISA director will confront a host of complex challenges
In The News
The next leader of the nation's top cybersecurity agency will inherit a bevy of crises. President Biden has nominated Jen Easterly, the head of Morgan Stanley’s global fusion ...
By John Costello
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Licensed to Kill: How Russia Uses Israeli Drones to Bomb Civilians in Syria
When Israeli-licensed military drones first took off from Syrian air force bases to stalk opponents of Bashar Assad’s regime, shortly after Russia’s 2015 intervention, they we...
By Samuel Bendett
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"What degree of human involvement should there be in the use of force?"
In The News
In an interview with the Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight, Paul Scharre offers insights on weapon autonomy and the human role in future warfighting. After multiple t...
By Paul Scharre
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
In The News
Once a month, senior executives of Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. fly to Beijing for a flurry of meetings with China's top economic management bodies. They focus on the compa...
By Martijn Rasser
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Is Washington prepared for a geopolitical ‘tech race’?
In The News
When Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sat down with Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska for the first high-level bilateral summ...
By Jordan Schneider
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Inside Russia’s Robot Army: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Russia has created a new robotic combat unit of Uran-9 unmanned ground vehicles, which have been battle-tested in Syria, though with mixed results. It’s also developing an exp...
By Samuel Bendett
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CNAS Responds: Assessing the Biden Administration's First 100 Days
Press Note
President Biden will mark his first 100 days in office with a joint session address to Congress this evening. In the press note below, CNAS experts offer insights and reflecti...
By Richard Fontaine, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Ilan Goldenberg, Lisa Curtis, Martijn Rasser, Jacob Stokes, Ainikki Riikonen, Megan Lamberth, Nathalie Grogan & Jim Townsend
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Does Big Tech Hurt U.S. National Security?
In The News
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces on Big Tech and U.S. national security. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of expert...
By Kara Frederick
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Russia Plans ‘Flying Minefield’ To Counter Drone Attacks
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The Russian military has released new details of its use in Syria of small kamikaze drones, known as loitering munitions, made by a Kalashnikov subsidiary. The drone maker is ...
By Samuel Bendett
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New Huawei fears over Dutch mobile eavesdropping
In The News
Huawei was able to eavesdrop on all conversations taking place on one of the Netherlands' largest mobile networks, according to a Dutch newspaper report. Huawei staff both in ...
By Martijn Rasser
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France cuts two nuclear-powered submarines in half to make one new one
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A French nuclear-powered submarine severely damaged by fire last year has been saved from the scrapyard -- by cutting it in two and welding the salvageable half to part of ano...
By CDR Thomas Shugart, USN
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Pentagon turns to the stars to survive China's electronic warfare
Every newly commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy's surface fleet carries a copy of Nathaniel Bowditch's "The American Practical Navigator" (1802) on its bridge. This thick encyc...
By Billy Fabian
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Future Tank: Beyond The M1 Abrams
In The News
What comes after the M1 Abrams, the Army’s massive Reagan-era main battle tank? “Everything is on the table at this point,” the service’s armor modernization director, Maj. Ge...
By Paul Scharre
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Russian fighter pilots could soon fly alongside bomb-filled combat drones
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If Russia decides to send planes into combat by the end of this decade, human pilots in those aircraft will still pick targets, but it will be drone escorts that actually drop...
By Samuel Bendett
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Biden’s $180 Billion R&D Plan Prioritizes Key Areas Such As Chips, Quantum Computing
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As part of his recently unveiled $2 trillion infrastructure investment plan, President Joe Biden said his administration would commit $180 billion to “R&D and industries o...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Biden’s infrastructure plan includes billions to develop emerging tech the military needs
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan released Wednesday calls for $180 billion in new research and development spending on emerging technologies expected to define the co...
By Megan Lamberth & Tony Samp
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Combat Drones Made in China Are Coming to a Conflict Near You
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A dozen years into its fight with the Islamic insurgent group Boko Haram, Nigeria is getting some new weapons: a pair of Wing Loong II drones from China. The deal is one of a ...
By Michael Horowitz
