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Long Shadows: Deterrence in a Multipolar Nuclear Age
Stacie Pettyjohn, Jennie Matuschak | May 19, 2022
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Risk and Responsibility
Washington is reimagining its global role, leading the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to make difficult choices about priorities, resources, and risk to better address the l...
Indo-Pacific Security
Global Island: Sustaining Taiwan’s International Participation Amid Mounting Pressure from China
China under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has ramped up political, economic, and military pressure on Taiwan. The roots of Beijing’s pressure camp...
Security in the Balance
The 2022 CNAS National Security Conference Virtual Session Dates:June 14–16, 2022...
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New CNAS Report: "Dangerous Straits: Wargaming a Future Conflict over Taiwan"
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Washington, June 22, 2022—In a new CNAS report, "Dangerous Straits: Wargaming a Future Conflict over Taiwan," authors Stacie Pettyjohn, Becca Wasser, and Chris Dougherty, outl...
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Becca Wasser & Chris Dougherty
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Will China and Russia Stay Aligned?
In The News
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces on China and Russia, their emerging partnership, and whether this alignment will last. To complement these art...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Why this tiny island in the Pacific may be ground zero in a war with China
In The News
In a war with China, the American territory of Guam would likely become the 21st Century Pearl Harbor. Stacie Pettyjohn, a defense strategy and wargaming expert, said that mos...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Ukraine Is at Its ‘Most Dangerous Point’ of the War
In The News
In February, Ukraine shocked the world by driving Russian forces from Kyiv, fending off Vladimir Putin’s attempt to quickly capture the country. Almost four months later, the ...
By Michael Kofman
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Inflation is crushing already struggling US troops and their families
In The News
While Americans everywhere are feeling the strain of inflation, military families are also facing challenges unique to a job that maintains a rigid pay scale and leaves you li...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Why this tiny island in the Pacific may be ground zero in a war with China
In a war with China, the American territory of Guam would likely become the 21st Century Pearl Harbor. Stacie Pettyjohn, a defense strategy and wargaming expert, said that mos...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Strange Debacle: Misadventures In Assessing Russian Military Power
By Chris Dougherty
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Dangerous Straits: Wargaming a Future Conflict over Taiwan
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Becca Wasser & Chris Dougherty
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Why this tiny island in the Pacific may be ground zero in a war with China
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The Last Days of the Afghan Embassy
In January 2002, shortly after the fall of the first Taliban government in Kabul, then-Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai flew to Washington. There, he met with then-U.S. Pres...
By Lisa Curtis
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China secretly building naval facility in Cambodia, Western officials say
By Richard Fontaine
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Revitalizing the U.S.-Philippines Alliance to Address Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific
By CNAS U.S.-Philippines Alliance Task Force, Lisa Curtis, Joshua Fitt & Zachary Durkee
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The Last Days of the Afghan Embassy
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Overturning Roe: What Might This Mean for Military Culture?
With the repeal of Roe, women stationed in states that either have a trigger law or are poised to enact more stringent abortion bans will be faced with sharp reductions in the...
By Dr. Kyleanne Hunter
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Inflation is crushing already struggling US troops and their families
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Sharper: Pride in National Security
By Anna Pederson, Nathalie Grogan & Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Overturning Roe: What Might This Mean for Military Culture?
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Brussels Sprouts Live: Setting the Stage for Madrid
Over the past several months, the NATO alliance has faced a tremendous challenge in responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While allied cohesion has been consistently ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Julianne Smith, Steven Erlanger & David E. Sanger
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Will China and Russia Stay Aligned?
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Ukraine Is at Its ‘Most Dangerous Point’ of the War
By Michael Kofman
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Brussels Sprouts Live: Setting the Stage for Madrid
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Legacies of Repression in Egypt and Tunisia: Authoritarianism, Political Mobilization, and Founding Elections
About the Book: When an authoritarian regime collapses, what determines whether an opposition group will form a political party, be successful in mobilizing voters, and surviv...
By Alanna C. Torres-Van Antwerp
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A New Nuclear Deal With Iran Shouldn’t Be Accompanied By Terrorist Legitimization
By John O'Malley
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Aligning U.S.-Israeli Cooperation on Technology Issues and China
By Jonathan Schanzer, Shira Efron, Martijn Rasser & Alice Hickson
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Legacies of Repression in Egypt and Tunisia: Authoritarianism, Political Mobilization, and Founding Elections
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'They're like our nerd warriors': How the Treasury Department is waging economic war on Russia
Three months into US-led sanctions designed to crush Russia's economy for its war in Ukraine, Russia has appeared surprisingly resilient. The ruble has rebounded and is now wo...
By Elina Ribakova
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Sanctions by the Numbers: Economic Measures against Russia Following Its 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
By Emily Kilcrease, Jason Bartlett & Mason Wong
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Could Seizing Russian Assets Help Rebuild Ukraine?
By Rachel Ziemba
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'They're like our nerd warriors': How the Treasury Department is waging economic war on Russia
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Russian Officials Talk About Unplugging the Country from the Internet. But Is That Possible?
Russian officials are talking about cutting their country off from the internet amid the international and domestic backlash to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But would the sys...
By Samuel Bendett
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Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Trusted National Security Supply Chains
By Lt Col Gabe S. Arrington & CDR Andrew J. Adams
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Sharper: The Indo-Pacific Pivot
By Anna Pederson
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Russian Officials Talk About Unplugging the Country from the Internet. But Is That Possible?
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The Coast Guard: “Always Ready,” Except for Change
Introduction The Coast Guard motto, “Semper Paratus,” translates to “Always Ready.” While this is true in the Coast Guard’s everyday emergency response and operations, which p...
By James Valentine
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Western Hemisphere Migration is a Long-Term Challenge
By Carrie Cordero & Cris Ramón
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The Lawfare Podcast: Klein and Cordero on the Latest FISA Numbers
By Carrie Cordero
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The Coast Guard: “Always Ready,” Except for Change
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Implementing Women, Peace, and Security Guidance to Systematically Combat Gender-Based Violence in the Military
By institutionalizing a culture that respects the perspectives of everyone who serves, the military advances preventative measures to address sexual harassment and assault....
By Dr. Kyleanne Hunter & Emma Moore
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This group is training the next generation of women in national security
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Radha Iyengar & Erin Simpson
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More women in government roles leads to greater national security
By Katie Galgano
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Implementing Women, Peace, and Security Guidance to Systematically Combat Gender-Based Violence in the Military
