Center for a New American Security

Center for a New American Security’s Chief Executive Officer Nathaniel C. Fick will testify July 7, 2009, at a congressional hearing on U.S.-Pakistan relations. The hearing has been called by Sen. Tom Carper, D-DE, chairman of a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The hearing will be streamed live here.

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and Google D.C. Talk Series hosted "Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy," a panel event where experts offered perspectives on  how the United States can implement a national cybersecurity strategy. Watch video of the event here.

Striking a Balance: A New American Security was an all-day CNAS conference highlighting the major foreign policy and national security challenges facing our nation in the critical time ahead.

On April 29, 2009, the Center for a New American Security held an off-the-record working conference on Mapping U.S. Energy and Climate Security. This day-long event included more than 60 leading experts in energy and climate security from the private sector, non-governmental organizations, academia, and federal, state and local government agencies.

Authors Michael L. Burgoyne and Albert J. Marckwardt, both Majors in the United States Army, discussed their book on counterinsurgency in Iraq, The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa, with press and national security experts at the Center for a New American Security.

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) was pleased to host n exclusive press briefing of Robert Kaplan's article in Foreign Policy magazine entitled "The Revenge of Geography" on April 15, 2009.

The Center for a New American Security was pleased to host an intimate discussion with the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Secretary Raisa Bogatyreva and Ambassador Oleh Shamshur on Monday, April 13, 2009.

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) cordially invites you to attend an evening address by Australian Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon on Thursday, April 9, 2009, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, in the Willard's Crystal Room.  In light of the annual AUSMIN talks, Minister Fitzgibbon will discuss US-Australian relations, specifically continued defense and foreign security cooperation. Following the speech there will be Q & A and a cocktail reception.

Event Speakers:

David Ignatius
Columnist and Associate Editor for The Washington Post and co-host of PostGlobal

David Kilcullen
Author of The Accidental Guerrilla, CNAS Senior Fellow, and Partner at the Crumpton Group

CNAS cordially invites you to a panel discussion with Ralph Cossa, Patrick Cronin, RADM Michael McDevitt, and Brad Roberts. The evening's discussion, led by former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly, will celebrate the launch of a new joint report, The United States and the Asia-Pacific Region: Security Strategy for the Obama Administration, which assesses U.S. strategic imperatives in the Asia-Pacific and provides several policy recommendations for the Obama administration.