Center for a New American Security

On March 24, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) will hold an event on global internet freedom and foreign policy, which will mark the public launch of the U.S. Senate Caucus on Global Internet Freedom.

On Monday, February 22, 2010, CNAS and Georgetown University hosted a discussion with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on the challenges and opportunities – including operations in Afghanistan – for the over 60-year-old Alliance. 

On February 18, CNAS hosted an event to mark the release of a major report on how the United States can revitalize its military officer corps to meet current national security challenges, and those that lie ahead.

On January 26, CNAS will launch a major report on the global commons - sea, airspace, space and cyberspace -  at an event featuring the CNO Admiral Gary Roughead,  Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force General Carrol Chandler, former Chairman of the Defense Science Board Norman R. Augustine and  Fellow Abraham Denmark.

Center for a New American Security’s Vice President and Director of Studies Kristin M. Lord testified on November 18, 2009, at a congressional hearing on the role of development and humanitarian assistance as a tool in the war on terror. Read the testimony here.

The Defense Attachés Association, in consultation with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), hosted their annual conference, Strategic Resources and Global Security Trends, on November 18, 2009, at the Embassy of New Zealand. This event, an effort led in part by Sharon Burke, vice president for Natural Security at CNAS, brought together defense attachés from over 40 countries, as well as U.S. military service personnel and civilian leaders at the Department of Defense, to discuss global security trends, including natural resource scarcity, energy security and climate change. Participants also included representatives from CNA, the New America Foundation, and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

The Center for a New American Security held a book launch and discussion on The Fourth Star, by journalists and former CNAS Writers in Residence Greg Jaffe and David Cloud.  The Fourth Star tells the story of the epic struggle for the future of the U.S. Army through profiling four influential generals who have arguably helped redefine the American way of war: Generals John Abizaid, George Casey Jr., Peter Chiarelli, and David Petraeus.  Watch the video from the event here.

The Center for a New American Security co-hosted a discussion on climate change and its implications for national policy with the Joint Global Change Research Institute and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland.

The Center for a New American Security hosted The Honorable James B. Steinberg, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, at an event marking the launch of CNAS' new report, China's Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Relationship. The report examines the ever expanding U.S.-China relationship and proposes a strategy for future engagement.

CNAS President John Nagl, CNAS CEO Nathaniel Fick, CNAS Senior Fellow Thomas Ricks, and CNAS Senior Fellow Robert Kaplan participated in the Marine Corps University Symposium Counterinsurgency Leadership in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond at the National Press Club. The event included a keynote address on leadership in counterinsurgency given by General David Petraeus, USA, CENTCOM Commander.