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New Taliban Attack Prompts Familiar Question: What's Next In Afghanistan?
The Taliban staged a coordinated attack overnight on two Afghan army outposts, killing 14 Afghan soldiers. It's the latest attack by insurgents on the country's beleaguered na...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Will Opec defy Trump's call for low oil prices?
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Initially it is difficult see what President Donald Trump and Usman Ahsan, a taxi driver in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, have in common. One is the leader of the US, wi...
By Rachel Ziemba
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'Badass' national security women offer Democrats a Trump antidote
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Virginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger had a potent defense against attacks by President Donald Trump and other Republicans casting her party as weak on national security: her c...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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U.S. Gives Russia a Deadline on Nuclear Treaty
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Tuesday that the Trump administration would begin the formal process to scrap the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty wi...
By Elbridge Colby
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Russia isn’t complying with an arms control treaty — so the US is threatening to rip it up
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The Trump administration just announced that it will give Russia 60 days to comply with a decades-old missile treaty or the US will withdraw from it — potentially kickstarting...
By Eric Sayers
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Forget The Terminator: Robotics For Logistics 1st, Combat 2nd
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Despite heated talk of killer robots and powered armor, the unsexy truth is that artificial intelligence, robotics, and exoskeletons will be hauling ammo and helping mechanics...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump and NATO Show Rare Unity in Confronting Russia’s Arms Treaty Violation
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The Trump administration and NATO, which have been antagonists more often than not, presented an unusual united front on Tuesday, when U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave...
By Jim Townsend
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President Trump's Meetings (and Cancellations) Dominate G20 Headlines
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America's trade war with China is on a temporary pause, thanks to conversations at the G20 Summit in Argentina last weekend. Rachel Rizzo, Bacevich Fellow at the Center For a ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Kurdish-backed council rejects Russian fears over Kurdish 'quasi-states'
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The Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) has called on Russia to focus on ending crimes by Turkish-backed groups in Afrin, rather than expressing worries that the Sy...
By Nicholas Heras
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Is Trump really going to cut the defense budget?
For military planners, the biggest question heading into 2019 is whether the president’s proposed $700 billion defense budget plan is a negotiating ploy or a sincere target. D...
By Robert O. Work
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Trump and Xi face hurdles in trade talks after fragile tariffs truce
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Donald Trump, the US president, and Xi Jinping, China’s president, are facing hurdles in building on the fragile truce they reached in their trade war, after the two countries...
By Abigail Grace
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‘Twists but no plot’: Trump’s diminishing foreign travel reflects a president scaling back foreign ambition
After midterm elections in which their party loses political power in Washington, American presidents have traditionally used foreign travel to change the subject and more eas...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Days of Secret Military Operations May Soon Be Over. Does That Matter?
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In the age of social media and increasingly available connectivity, experts say it is becoming more and more challenging for the U.S. military to conduct operations under a cl...
By Kara Frederick
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Russia, Ukraine And The U.S.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland about Russia, Ukraine and the United States. Listen to the...
By Victoria Nuland
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Pentagon stuck with bill for ballooning border mission
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If the Pentagon keeps thousands of active-duty troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border for several more months -- as the Department of Homeland Security requested Friday -- ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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The US and China relationship is in shambles. It could get worse at G20.
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President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping for a working dinner during the G20 summit this week, and it looks like it will be a missed chance to improve sou...
By Abigail Grace
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Trump abruptly cancels Putin meeting at G-20, citing Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian vessels
Jolting another international summit before it’s even begun, President Trump on Thursday abruptly canceled a much-anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, le...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Pentagon looks to exoskeletons to build 'super-soldiers'
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The U.S. Army is investing millions of dollars in experimental exoskeleton technology to make soldiers stronger and more resilient, in what experts say is part of a broader pu...
By Paul Scharre
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“It Is Hardly Coincidental”: Did Michael Cohen Scare Trump Into Ghosting Putin?
En route to Buenos Aires on Thursday, Donald Trump had a change of heart. Less than an hour earlier, as he walked across the White House lawn, the president had told reporters...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Afghanistan's Forever War
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It's been another violent week in Afghanistan. Former U.S. Army Col. Chris Kolenda, who helped set up a back channel with the Taliban, discusses what it will take to get all s...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
