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Sanctions by the Numbers: 2025 Year in Review
Eleanor Hume, Kyle Rutter | January 29, 2026
Short Supply
Katherine L. Kuzminski, Taren Sylvester | December 11, 2025
Prepared, Not Paralyzed
Janet Egan, Spencer Michaels, Caleb Withers | November 20, 2025
Economic Security in North America
Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz | December 03, 2025
Reports
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2025 Year in Review
This installment of Sanctions by the Numbers examines the United States’ use of financial sanctions and entity-based export controls...
Reports
Short Supply
Executive Summary The U.S. military faces a critical challenge: Fewer young Americans are willing to serve, and fewer adults are encouraging them to do so. Because of delibera...
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Prepared, Not Paralyzed
Executive Summary The Trump administration has embraced a pro-innovation approach to artificial intelligence (AI) policy. Its AI Action Plan, released July 2025, underscores t...
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Economic Security in North America
Executive Summary The United States, Mexico, and Canada Agreement (USMCA) negotiated during President Donald Trump’s first term includes a novel review clause. By July 2026, t...
CNAS INSIGHTS
CNAS Insights brings timely analysis and expert commentary to the most pressing topics in national security.
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CNAS Insights | America Isn’t Ready for a Drone War
This week, U.S. personnel near El Paso, Texas, tested a high-energy laser as part of their mission to shoot down cartel drones along the southern border. The resulting confusi...
Commentary
CNAS Insights | Why the United States Needs Economic Coercion Doctrine
Economic tools now sit at the center of U.S. global competition. Sanctions, export controls, investment restrictions, and financial measures are employed with a frequency and ...
Commentary
CNAS Insights | Unpacking the H200 Export Policy
AI Chips for China With two new policies, President Donald Trump has implemented his pledge to allow sales of NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips to China in exchange for a quarter of the ...
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Why Trump’s ‘Faux Pas’ on Taiwan Is Ringing Alarm Bells in Washington
In The News
The Munich Security Conference proved a tough training ground for Democratic firebrand and potential US presidential contender Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who made headlines for...
By Derek Grossman
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How Trump Revived Gunboat Diplomacy
In The News
The message to the Islamic Republic is unmistakable: submit to US demands or face the wrath of the world’s most powerful navy....
By Tom Shugart
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‘Getting Ties on Track Top Priority for Both India, U.S.’: Former Us National Security Official Lisa Curtis
In The News
US-India relations were once described as one of Washington’s most important strategic bets in the 21st century. But, over the past year, that partnership has come under serio...
By Lisa Curtis
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The U.S. Is Racing to Build a Drone Shield and This 90-Degree Missile Could Power Trump’s “Golden Dome”
In The News
A missile fires straight up, pivots, and kills a drone midair, JAGM’s latest test hints at a new weapon in America’s race to counter aerial threats....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Once the Americans Warned of the Russian Threat. Now, It’s the Europeans’ Turn.
In The News
Four years ago American officials arrived at the Munich Security Conference armed with satellite photographs of massing Russian troops and intercepts of conversations among Ru...
By Richard Fontaine
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How Trump Revived Gunboat Diplomacy
The message to the Islamic Republic is unmistakable: submit to US demands or face the wrath of the world’s most powerful navy....
By Tom Shugart
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The U.S. Is Racing to Build a Drone Shield and This 90-Degree Missile Could Power Trump’s “Golden Dome”
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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El Paso Airspace Shutdown Is ‘Case Study’ in Complexity of Counter-Drone Ops: Experts
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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How Trump Revived Gunboat Diplomacy
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Why Trump’s ‘Faux Pas’ on Taiwan Is Ringing Alarm Bells in Washington
The Munich Security Conference proved a tough training ground for Democratic firebrand and potential US presidential contender Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who made headlines for...
By Derek Grossman
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Hearing on “India, China, and the Balance of Power in the Indo-Pacific”
By Lindsey Ford
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‘Getting Ties on Track Top Priority for Both India, U.S.’: Former Us National Security Official Lisa Curtis
By Lisa Curtis
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Why Trump’s ‘Faux Pas’ on Taiwan Is Ringing Alarm Bells in Washington
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National Security Human Capital Program
Army to Be More Selective with Reenlistment Bonuses Under New GuidanceThe Army is adjusting how it awards reenlistment bonuses, refining how incentive pay is awarded as it tries to keep high-performing soldiers in hard-to-fill roles....
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
The U.S. Army’s Quiet Rotation in the PhilippinesBy Katherine L. Kuzminski & Stacie Pettyjohn
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National Security Human Capital Program
Army Recruiting Waivers for Mental Health Will Be Approved at Lower LevelsBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Sound of Munich: Autonomy, Anxiety, and the Twilight of Transatlantic Order
This article was originally published in War on the Rocks. Munich was warmer than Washington this weekend, both in weather and in sentiment. Neither development was widely fo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Once the Americans Warned of the Russian Threat. Now, It’s the Europeans’ Turn.
By Richard Fontaine
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Migration Can Provide the Manpower for European DefenseBy Adham Sahloul
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The Sound of Munich: Autonomy, Anxiety, and the Twilight of Transatlantic Order
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Venezuela’s Natural Gas, Not Oil, Might Be a Big Early Prize
Venezuela’s oil reserves may be vast, but some of the best opportunities to quickly develop the country’s resources lie offshore, in the pockets of natural gas trapped deep be...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Migration Can Provide the Manpower for European DefenseBy Adham Sahloul
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Trump Turns to Military Leaders for High-Stakes Diplomacy
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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Venezuela’s Natural Gas, Not Oil, Might Be a Big Early Prize
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Marco Rubio Is Rebooting the Neocons for the MAGA Era
This article was originally published in Bloomberg. In his infamous guide to ruling, Niccolò Machiavelli also offers a warning to ambitious advisers: Power belongs to the pri...
By Chris Kennedy
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Former U.S. State Department Official Optimistic USMCA Will Be Renewed
By Edward Fishman
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Trump Administration’s Venezuela Approach Gets Murkier
By Alex Zerden
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Marco Rubio Is Rebooting the Neocons for the MAGA Era
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Technology & National Security
The Sovereignty Gap in U.S. AI StatecraftThis article was originally published in Lawfare. As the India AI Impact Summit kicks off this week, the Trump administration has embraced the language of “sovereign AI.” Thro...
By Pablo Chavez
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Technology & National Security
Pentagon Brings ChatGPT Into Its Official AI Tool SetBy Caleb Withers
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Technology & National Security
America’s Key to Biotechnology Leadership? AI-Ready Biodata.By Sam Howell & Michelle Holko
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The Fed, Ed Accreditation, and DHS
Loren and Radha reminisce about wintry memories and Benedict Cumberbatch before a cocktail parties worth of gossip on Fed rates, tariffs, and appropriations politics. In dumps...
By Carrie Cordero
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Accountability and Oversight Concerns in DHS
By Carrie Cordero
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Legal Questions Remain After U.S. Capture of Maduro
By Carrie Cordero
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The Fed, Ed Accreditation, and DHS
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How the U.S. and South Africa Could Use the G20 to Plot a Path Forward
In the contest for the future of global order, South Africa’s choices will have a disproportionate impact on the outcome....
By Richard Fontaine & Gibbs McKinley
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Losing the Swing States
By Richard Fontaine & Gibbs McKinley
- New CNAS Report Argues Six “Global Swing States” Will Shape the New Great Power Competition
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How the U.S. and South Africa Could Use the G20 to Plot a Path Forward
