Elements of Security: Mitigating the Risks of U.S. Dependence on Critical Minerals, explores a range of potential vulnerabilities that stem from dependence on several minerals that the United States will need for defense supply chains and clean energy goals in the decades ahead.
CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Richard Weitz testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on the current status of Sino-Russian relations.
CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow David Asher delivered a testimony to the Congressional Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade for the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs regarding his work on a strategy against the Kim Jong Il regime’s illicit activities and
finances.
In this policy brief, CNAS experts Andrew Exum and Zachary Hosford offer four policy recommendations for the U.S. strategy in Libya that limit the U.S. expenditure of blood or treasure.
The most dangerous threat to the United States and its allies in the Western Hemisphere is the growth of powerful transnational criminal organizations in Mexico and Central America, according to the authors of Security Through Partnership: Fighting Transnational Cartels in the Western Hemisphere. In this policy brief, authors Bob Killebrew and Matthew Irvine write that increased regional cooperation is needed to combat the growing violence and instability in the Western Hemisphere.
In Disaster in Japan: Nuclear Energy, the Economy and the U.S.-Japan
Alliance, CNAS experts provide their perspectives on three
critical areas: America's vital alliance with Japan, the world’s energy
future and the Japanese economy.
China’s growing defense budget – in addition to its claim of sovereignty in the South China Sea, anti-satellite weapons testing, and interest in cyber military capabilities – has raised questions about the implications of its rising military power, noted Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Fellow Abraham Denmark in congressional testimony to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on March 10, 2011. “The question of how China will use its newfound power, especially its military power, will determine the course of the 21st century,” said Denmark.
The fiscal year 2012 defense budget request is a break from the past ten years of budget growth, but it does not go far enough to rebalance defense spending priorities given the fiscal pressures and threats the United States faces, according to this policy brief. The Sacrifice Ahead: The 2012 Defense Budget recommends that the Department of Defense (DOD) pursue additional efficiencies savings and make modest reductions in its base budget to help shore up the U.S. economy, the core of America’s global and military power.
In recent years, the world has witnessed the power of the global economy to impact states' behavior and interactions within the international community. This report examines the capacity of the United States to use counter-threat finance by examining three cases - North Korea, Serbia and Iraq - to glean lessons learned for the future.
