Featured Reports
Atomic Advantage
Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante | May 28, 2025
Regional and Global Responses to a Taiwan Contingency
Jacob Stokes, Kareen Hart, Ryan Claffey, Thomas Corel | May 21, 2025
Democracy in South Asia amid U.S. Aid Cuts
Lisa Curtis, Kareen Hart, Keerthi Martyn | May 15, 2025
From Production Lines to Front Lines
Becca Wasser, Philip Sheers | April 03, 2025
Technology & National Security
Atomic Advantage
Executive Summary One of the most consequential national security contests now unfolds on battlefields invisible to the naked eye—across the faint radiofrequency signals of th...
Indo-Pacific Security
Regional and Global Responses to a Taiwan Contingency
A contingency across the Taiwan Strait has the potential to reshape the Indo-Pacific and even global security environment. This report explores how states beyond the United St...
Indo-Pacific Security
Democracy in South Asia amid U.S. Aid Cuts
The practice of democratic governance and the increased number of people across the world participating in national elections are positive trends that will help ensure governm...
Defense
From Production Lines to Front Lines
Executive Summary The U.S. defense industrial base (DIB) is struggling to meet the demands of the current strategic environment—let alone prepare for a potential conflict agai...
AMERICA'S EDGE
The United States faces a rapidly changing global security landscape. Evolving technology, shifting alliances, and emerging threats require America to harness bold, innovative approaches. The CNAS 2025 national security conference, America’s Edge: Forging the Future, will bring together bipartisan leaders, policymakers, and industry to chart a vision for enhancing America’s global edge.
CNAS 2025 National Security Conference | America's Edge: Forging the Future
Jun 3, 2025
The First 100 Days
The First 100 Days is a series of recommendations from CNAS experts. The recommendations span the most pressing issues that will test the administration, including competition...
Set the Tone, Establish Policy, Hire Personnel—And Prepare for Crisis
President Donald Trump enters office at a critical moment and faces multiple crises...
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Officials Temper Hegseth Claim of Army Recruiting Renaissance Under Trump
In The News
As the Army celebrates its 250th birthday with an elaborately planned parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., the service is also touting an epic recruiting turnaround...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Trump Administration’s AUKUS Review Set Off a Political Storm, but It Doesn’t Mean the Deal Is Dead
In The News
News that the Trump administration is reviewing AUKUS broke like a wave over Australia this morning....
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Plans Broader Use of National Guard in Immigration Enforcement
In The News
The Trump administration wants to use the National Guard more broadly to enact the president’s immigration agenda, according to border czar Tom Homan, documents and people fam...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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New Paper Warns AI Chip Smuggling to China May Undermine U.S. National Security Interests
Press Release
June 11, 2025 — Today, a new working paper, Countering AI Chip Smuggling Has Become a National Security Priority: An Updated Playbook for Preventing AI Chip Smuggling to the P...
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Trump’s Latest Trade ‘Deal’ with China Underscores Key U.S. Disadvantage
In The News
For the second time in two months, President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted a “deal” with China. There’s one problem: It’s largely the same deal the two countries agreed to ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Tariffs & and the Defense Industrial Base with Becca Wasser, plus what’s new in the U.S.-China trade war
Geoff and Emily debrief on the latest news in the U.S.-China trade talks. Becca Wasser, senior fellow and deputy director of the CNAS defense program, joins to talk about what...
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz & Becca Wasser
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Production Power: The Revitalisation of the U.S. Defence Industrial Base and the Consequences for Europe
By Becca Wasser
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MWI Podcast: The U.S. Defense Industrial Base, from Steel to Software
By Becca Wasser
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Tariffs & and the Defense Industrial Base with Becca Wasser, plus what’s new in the U.S.-China trade war
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U.S.-Japan Relations Under the Trump Administration 2.0
In this thought-provoking discussion, Richard Fontaine, CEO of CNAS and co-author of “Lost Decade”; and Ken Jimbo, president of Asia Pacific Initiative at the International Ho...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Trump Administration’s AUKUS Review Set Off a Political Storm, but It Doesn’t Mean the Deal Is Dead
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Latest Trade ‘Deal’ with China Underscores Key U.S. Disadvantage
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S.-Japan Relations Under the Trump Administration 2.0
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Officials Temper Hegseth Claim of Army Recruiting Renaissance Under Trump
As the Army celebrates its 250th birthday with an elaborately planned parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., the service is also touting an epic recruiting turnaround...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Trump Plans Broader Use of National Guard in Immigration Enforcement
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Episode 7: The Future Hands Shaping the U.S.’s Unmanned Arsenal
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Paul Scharre & Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Officials Temper Hegseth Claim of Army Recruiting Renaissance Under Trump
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How Nuclear War Could Start
To understand how it could all go wrong, it is useful to look at some examples of how it almost did....
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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How the U.S. and Europe are Rethinking China
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Noah Barkin
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‘Spider’s Web’ Warning: The U.S. Must Prioritize Drone Defense to Avoid Russia’s Fate
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Molly Campbell
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How Nuclear War Could Start
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Preventing the Next Middle East Disaster
At play for Washington in the Middle East is the opportunity to keep Russia out of the Eastern Mediterranean, Iran’s proxy network at bay, and scale back China's ambitions in ...
By Adham Sahloul
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Episode 6: Autonomy Now! Ukraine, Iran, China, and the “Drone” Revolution
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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How to Kick-start Syria’s Reconstruction
By Delaney Soliday & Kate Johnston
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Preventing the Next Middle East Disaster
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Tariffs & and the Defense Industrial Base with Becca Wasser, plus what’s new in the U.S.-China trade war
Geoff and Emily debrief on the latest news in the U.S.-China trade talks. Becca Wasser, senior fellow and deputy director of the CNAS defense program, joins to talk about what...
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz & Becca Wasser
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Trump’s Latest Trade ‘Deal’ with China Underscores Key U.S. Disadvantage
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S.-China Talks Continue | Bloomberg: Asia Trade
By Emily Kilcrease
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Tariffs & and the Defense Industrial Base with Becca Wasser, plus what’s new in the U.S.-China trade war
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Countering AI Chip Smuggling Has Become a National Security Priority
Based on the available evidence, artificial intelligence (AI) chip smuggling has likely been occurring at a scale that significantly undermines U.S. attempts to restrict the P...
By Erich Grunewald & Tim Fist
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How the United States Can Win the Global Tech Race
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Untangling Ukraine’s “Operation Spiderweb”
By Samuel Bendett
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Countering AI Chip Smuggling Has Become a National Security Priority
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Can the President Deploy the National Guard to American Cities?
On CNN, Carrie Cordero breaks down the laws behind whether the President can deploy the National Guard to American cities, and whether the Insurrection Act will be invoked....
By Carrie Cordero
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Sharper: The National Guard
By Charles Horn & Taren Sylvester
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DOJ Tests National Security Defense in Fight for Trump Agenda
By Carrie Cordero
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Can the President Deploy the National Guard to American Cities?
