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Ideas of the Week: Batteries, Billionaires, Robots, Aircraft Carriers
They’re big, they’re impressive, and they’re super expensive. But Bloomberg’s Justin Bachman reports that the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers could be unnecessary, thanks to new...
By Paul Scharre
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China Profits as US Hesitates on Selling Armed Drones
More than 15 years after a U.S. Predator drone launched its first Hellfire missile, the United States remains reluctant to sell armed drones to even its closest allies. That h...
By Paul Scharre
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Report Tells Pentagon to Beware Nuclear Drone Bombers
The U.S. Air Force’s future B-21 Raider bomber may have the option to remove the human pilots from the cockpit and effectively become a large drone bomber. In one of the more ...
By Paul Scharre
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How America’s Aircraft Carriers Could Become Obsolete
President Donald Trump has been consistent in his argument that the U.S. Navy has shrunk to a woefully inadequate size. The Republican has repeatedly said he wants the service...
By Paul Scharre
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Why Russia and China Are 'Eating Our Lunch' When It Comes to Tech Warfare
With seemingly endless provocations from North Korea and saber rattling from Russia and Iran, the U.S. military, under the Trump administration, has responded by flexing its m...
By Alexandra Sander
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Fact Check: Why did the NSA breach privacy protections?
National Security Agency analysts under the Obama administration improperly searched Americans' information, but the searches were conducted largely out of error, according to...
By Adam Klein
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Ransomware attack is why we can't have security backdoors, say privacy advocates
Privacy experts are calling the global ransomware attack that hit 150 countries a prime example of why requiring tech companies to create backdoors into computer programs is a...
By Adam Klein
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Will Comey's encryption legacy at FBI go dark?
President Donald Trump's sudden firing of FBI Director James Comey has touched off a political tempest in Washington, but in the eye of the storm are questions about how Comey...
By Adam Klein
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The European Union Just Squeaked By
On this week’s first episode of The E.R., David Rothkopf, Rosa Brooks, Ed Luce, and Julie Smith discuss the French election results, what it means for the rest ...
By Julianne Smith
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How to Manage a Swarm
Our interview for the April -- June Critical Thinking with Paul Scharre--he's a Ranger vet who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who is now a robotics expert at the Center for...
By Paul Scharre
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Army tests drone-killing lasers as threat grows on the battlefield
As Islamic State-piloted commercial drones complicate the offensive in Mosul, sending Iraqi troops scattering as grenades and bomblets rain down, the Army has field tested veh...
By Paul Scharre
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Battle intensifies between Trump’s CIA, WikiLeaks
The battle between the CIA and WikiLeaks is intensifying. CIA Director Mike Pompeo used his first major public remarks on Thursday to skewer WikiLeaks as a “non-state hostile ...
By Adam Klein
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Susan Rice, Michael Flynn, and the politics of surveillance
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R) of South Carolina leaned forward and addressed FBI director James Comey in a pointed manner. The congressman – a booster of the military, a former prosecut...
By Adam Klein
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A more connected military means new battlefield glitches, too
The US Army is embarking on a potentially decade-long quest to prepare soldiers to operate in the Digital Age. In a $52 million initiative to create what it's calling the Inte...
By Richard Danzig
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North Korea suspected of $81M cyberheist
In The News
David Asher, adjunct senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific Security Program, joins CNN's Situation Room to discuss the investigation into North Korea's role in an $81 million cybe...
By David Asher
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Spy powers at risk amid Trump controversy
Congress was already facing a contentious debate over reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act before the end of the year. Now, the growing contr...
By Adam Klein
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SES modernization plan should include risks, on and off ramps, roles for millennials
Would you nominate Edward Snowden as Employee of the Month? The answer might be yes if you’re part of the future federal workforce, and that’s something current senior executi...
By Michèle Flournoy
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The Coming Battle Over Surveillance
As mystery continues to swirl around the February resignation of General Mike Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, an already-contentious government progr...
By Adam Klein
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Trump's Wiretap Claims Are Bogus. But He's Still Onto Something.
The current scandal surrounding President Donald Trump's tweeted accusations that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower is proof of what might be called the Salena Zito rule....
By Adam Klein
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Keeping America Safe: Is Trump's Military Budget Enough?
On the campaign trail and now as commander in chief, President Donald Trump has pledged to boost America's depleted armed forces. During his recent address to Congress, he ann...
By Alexandra Sander
