Center for a New American Security

March 16, 2009 - Last fall, seasoned Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross laid out a Goldilocks-like set of diplomatic strategies for dealing with Iran: Tighten the noose of sanctions, engage without conditions, or pursue a hybrid option that combines negotiation and pressure.

The first, he suggested in a report for the Center for a New American Security, would strengthen the hardline Iranian regime, the second would put the United States in a position of weakness.

December 2, 2008 - Ann Scott Tyson writes, "Although President-elect Barack Obama's decision to keep Robert M. Gates at the helm of the Pentagon will provide a measure of continuity for a military fighting two wars, many of Gates's top deputies are expected to depart their jobs, according to senior defense and transition officials." CNAS co-founder and Pentagon transition review team co-leader, Michèle A. Flournoy, is said to be a leading candidate for a top job. 

December 1, 2008-- Since the election, Obama has reiterated a campaign promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. "This is the area where you see extremely bright lines separating the Bush administration and the Obama administration," said James Miller, a senior vice president at the Center for a New American Security, a left-leaning think tank. "I would be shocked if anyone who supported those policies or implemented them got a job."

November 16, 2008 - The Wall Street Journal's Yochi Dreazen writes about CNAS, calling it a "media saavy" think tank with "middle-of-the-road policy views."

James Miller, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security, and S. Enders Wimbush, Director of the Center for Future Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute, were interviewed on C-SPAN's Washington Journal on challenges President-elect Obama will face.  Two main issues discussed were defense policy, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, and veterans affairs.

WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - "Iran is not in a revolutionary or even pre-revolutionary stage."

That was the assessment of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in August 1978, at a time when Iran's ruler was America's closest ally in the Middle East. The Defense Intelligence Agency, a month later, predicted that the Shah of Iran, "is expected to remain actively involved in power over the next 10 years."

January 15, 2008-- The accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material has brought us to a nuclear tipping point. We face a very real possibility that the deadliest weapons ever invented could fall into dangerous hands.

The steps we are taking now to address these threats are not adequate to the danger. With nuclear weapons more widely available, deterrence is decreasingly effective and increasingly hazardous.

January 4, 2007--Nuclear weapons today present tremendous dangers, but also an historic opportunity. U.S. leadership will be required to take the world to the next stage -- to a solid consensus for reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as a vital contribution to preventing their proliferation into potentially dangerous hands, and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world.