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Commodities 2024: Global Crude Supplies Seen Giving Biden Wiggle Room on Oil Sanctions
US gasoline prices in 2024 will be a factor in any Biden administration decision to tighten oil-related sanctions in an election year when prices at the pump could sway voters...
By Rachel Ziemba
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China Fires Back at U.S. Sanctions
Why it matters: The sanctions expand on Beijing's previous efforts to criminalize certain kinds of research, intimidate individual researchers, and make it harder for companie...
By Alex Zerden
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Russian Warplanes’ Flights over U.S. Bases in Middle East Pose Dual Danger, Experts Say
Although both Russia and the U.S. have declared missions in Syria to defeat Islamic State, their backing of opposing Syrian groups has led to deconfliction protocols. These in...
By Jonathan Lord
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The Year Policymakers Woke Up to AI
Although the early focus on AI competition was on the industry itself, the conversation quickly expanded to how the transformative technology will impact geopolitics, which co...
By Paul Scharre
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U.S. Takes Aim at Financial Institutions with New Russia Sanctions Authority
The move comes as U.S. funding for Ukraine military aid is running out and the United States and its allies search for new ways to slow Russia's war effort. Washington already...
By Edward Fishman
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Next Year Could Be Even Tougher than This Last for Ukraine, Forcing It to Fight Irregularly to Hold On
The future of Ukraine's war effort, though, is now perhaps more uncertain than it has been at any time since the early days of Russia's failed assault on Kyiv. After its lackl...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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How a Yemeni Rebel Group Is Creating Chaos in the Global Economy
Some countries may feel the impact directly, such as the cash-strapped government of Egypt, which earns more than $9 billion a year from Suez Canal transit fees. But given the...
By Rachel Ziemba
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U.S. and China Resume Military Contacts at the Highest Level
The renewed talks come as Beijing and Washington seek to thaw icy bilateral relations and both governments deal with a series of crises buffeting their leadership. The White H...
By Jacob Stokes
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Pentagon Cloud Tie-Up with Silicon Valley Off to a Slow Start
The Pentagon has struggled for years to make the jump to cloud computing, now the preference of most American businesses. It’s still struggling amid concerns that the cloud is...
By Paul Scharre
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U.S.-China Military Dialogue Resumes for First Time in over a Year as Top American Officer Talks with Counterpart
“Even if these talks mean that military dialogues are no longer frozen, they are likely still icy, exhibited in the time it took for talks to resume,” Bill Drexel of the Centr...
By Bill Drexel
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Congress Asks Department of the Air Force for 2050 Force Design Plan. What Will It Mean?
The department’s ongoing re-optimization review, implemented by Secretary Frank Kendall this fall, will likely inform that force design, which will be due by Aug. 31, 2024. “T...
By Becca Wasser & Hannah Dennis
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China Courts Saudi Arabia as Part of Its De-Dollarisation Strategy
“I think this swap is one of several tools that China is using to increase their role in the global economy, or at least to signal their interest for that to happen,” says Rac...
By Rachel Ziemba
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North Korea Test-fires Most Advanced ICBM With U.S. In Range
However, the North has yet to perfect those capabilities, according to Go Myong-hyun, a researcher at the Asian Institute for Policy Studies. "Regarding ICBMs, there are still...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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Why Is Israel Using So Many Dumb Bombs in Gaza?
A report published last year by Operation Inherent Resolve, the American-led coalition against Islamic State (is), which has been bombing Iraq and Syria for almost a decade, m...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Ukraine Aid Remains in Limbo as Congress Nears Recess
There is little doubt that a significant delay in additional funding from the U.S. would adversely impact Ukraine on the battlefield, but experts differed on the question of h...
By Nicholas Lokker
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What Happens in Ukraine If U.S. Aid Disappears?
So both sides seem committed to continuing the war — but what would it look like if the US decides to bow out? “A failure to supply military aid to Ukraine isn’t going to caus...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Military Bases Below Negative-20 Degrees Will Soon Get a Bonus Pay
“It is quite possible that it is a recognition that it’s uncomfortable to be living in a cold climate. But there’s part of me that thinks it’s more tied to the remoteness than...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Israel Aid Supplemental Critical for Long-Term Defense, Possible Second Front, Experts Say
Jonathan Lord, senior fellow and director of the Middle East security program at the Center for a New American Security, told JNS that the Van Hollen amendment, though largely...
By Jonathan Lord
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New CNAS Report: Identifying Russian Vulnerabilities and How to Leverage Them
Washington, December 14, 2023 — Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, Identifying Russian Vulnerabilities and How to Leverage Them, by An...
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Biden Won’t Visit India Next Month for Parade and Quad: U.S. Official
Lisa Curtis, director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, said that it was imperative for the Indian government to cooperate with U...
By Lisa Curtis