Press Releases
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CNAS Experts Ask in New Report: If Iran Builds the Bomb, Will Saudi Arabia Be Next?
Washington, February 19, 2013 — Washington, February 19, 2013 - It is taken for granted in Washington that Saudi Arabia will inevitably pursue nuclear weapons if Tehran succeeds in its quest for the bomb. However, CNAS Senior Fellow Colin Kahl, Visiting Fellow Melissa G. Dalton and Research Associate Matthew Irvine argue in their new report Atomic Kingdom: If Iran Builds the Bomb, Will Saudi Arabia Be Next? that the prospects for Saudi reactive proliferation are lower than the conventional wisdom suggests.
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CNAS Expert Analysis: President Obama's Cyber Security Executive Order
Washington, February 13, 2013 — Yesterday, President Obama signed an Executive Order designed to improve the cyber security of the nation's critical infrastructures such as power plants, financial systems and telecommunications networks. CNAS Senior Fellow & Director of the Program on Technology and U.S. National Security Dr. Irving Lachow and Research Associate Jacob Stokes offer their perspective on the Executive Order's strengths and areas for improvement in their analysis Assessing the Cyber Executive Order, released today by CNAS.
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State of the Union: CNAS Expert Commentary and Live Tweeting
Washington, February 12, 2013 — Tonight, President Obama will deliver the first State of the Union address of his second term. Center for a New American Security (CNAS) experts Phillip Carter, Yochi Dreazen, Irving Lachow, Will Rogers and Jacob Stokes will live tweet their commentary and analysis during the State of the Union @CNASdc.
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CNAS Experts: Questions for Secretary of Defense Designate Chuck Hagel
Washington, January 28, 2013 — On January 31, the Senate will hold confirmation hearings for former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel to be President Obama's third secretary of defense. Hagel's hearing comes at a time of strategic and budgetary uncertainty for the United States and for the Pentagon in particular. In the memo The Future of U.S. Defense Policy: Questions for Secretary of Defense Designate Chuck Hagel, CNAS experts Shawn Brimley, Phillip Carter and Jacob Stokes suggest several possible areas for senators to consider.
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CNAS Experts: Questions for Secretary of State Nominee Senator John Kerry
Washington, January 23, 2013 — Tomorrow, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will take up the nomination of its chair, Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., to become secretary of state. President Obama has tapped Senator Kerry to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton at a time of great instability in the Middle East, economic uncertainty at home and abroad, increasing competition from China and diminishing budgets.
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CNAS Announces Shawn Brimley as Vice President and Director of Studies; Phillip Carter as Director of the Military, Veterans and Society Program; and Dr. Janine Davidson as Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Washington, January 7, 2013 — The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Shawn Brimley, currently a Senior Fellow at the Center and formerly Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council staff, will assume the position of Vice President and Director of Studies.
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CNAS Marks One Year Anniversary of Iraq Withdrawal with Release of Two New Papers
Washington, December 17, 2012 — To mark the one year anniversary of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, the Center for a New American Security has released two papers that offer insights into the U.S. role there since 2003.
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U.S. Must Strengthen Engagement with "Global Swing States" Brazil, India, Indonesia and Turkey, Say Experts in Joint CNAS-GMF Report
Washington, November 27, 2012 — The rise of four powerful democracies--Brazil, India, Indonesia and Turkey--presents one of the most significant opportunities for U.S. foreign policy in the early 21st century. Daniel M. Kliman of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and Richard Fontaine of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) urge American leaders to pursue closer partnerships with these four countries, which they term "global swing states." In a new report, Global Swing States: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey and the Future of International Order, released today as part of a joint initiative of GMF and CNAS, Kliman and Fontaine offer a new framework for thinking about how U.S. engagement with these pivotal powers can bolster peace, prosperity and freedom.
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America Must Improve its Care for Veterans, Says CNAS Expert
Washington, November 9, 2012 — After more than a decade of war, several years of constrained national budgets and a changing veteran population, the second Obama administration must confront how best to uphold its promises to the nation's men and women who serve or have served in uniform.
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Strong Possibility of Sequestration on January 2, Say CNAS Experts
Washington, November 8, 2012 — With a comprehensive "grand bargain" agreement on taxes and spending unlikely to succeed in the lame duck session, there is a strong possibility that sequestration will commence on January 2, argue experts David W. Barno, Nora Bensahel, Joel Smith and Jacob Stokes in Countdown to Sequestration: Why American Leaders Could Jump Off the Fiscal Cliff, released today by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
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