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American AI Companies Can’t Get Enough Chips
James Sanders, Janet Egan, Rory Madigan | May 07, 2026
Who Will Make Money on AI?
Geoffrey Gertz, Emily Kilcrease | May 05, 2026
Hit It with Your Best Shot
Emily Kilcrease | April 01, 2026
Repairing the Breach
Lisa Curtis, Keerthi Martyn, Sitara Gupta | March 26, 2026
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American AI Companies Can’t Get Enough Chips
In 2026, artificial intelligence (AI) chip production has become a binding constraint on the pace of the AI compute buildout. Demand for computing power to train and deploy ad...
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Who Will Make Money on AI?
The private sector is playing a leading role in advancing the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI). As a result, commercial incentives are likely to have a significant imp...
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Hit It with Your Best Shot
America needs an economic pressure doctrine. The country is using economic pressure in more novel ways and at greater scale than any other time in the postwar period....
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Repairing the Breach
U.S.-India relations stumbled badly during the second half of 2025. Differences between U.S. and Indian officials over how a ceasefire was reached between New Delhi and Islama...
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CNAS Insights | MATCHing Policy to Strategy
Advanced semiconductors underpin the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI). The computing power they provide drives military capability, economic productivity, ...
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CNAS Insights | American AI Exports Need a Sovereignty Solution
Earlier this month, the Department of Commerce opened applications for the American AI Exports Program, an ambitious effort to deploy American AI technology, tools, and infras...
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CNAS Insights | A Year After Liberation Day, Can Trump’s Trade Wars Be Salvaged?
As the trade wars have played out over the last year, the Trump administration has fumbled its opportunity....
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China Wants A.I. To Flourish, but Not at the Expense of Jobs“The government was really pushing this diffusion agenda,” said Ruby Scanlon, a research associate at the Center for a New American Security. “Increasingly, there’s been a lot...
By Ruby Scanlon
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Europe Troop Move Puts Spotlight on Last Man Out of AfghanistanDowngrading to a lieutenant general would be “against the grain” for allies who see Russia as a near-term threat, said Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of def...
By Jim Townsend
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Defense / National Security Human Capital
‘Insatiable’ Demand: Inside the Fight for a Bigger U.S. Special Forces Budget“If they’ve got 100 Shaheds coming at them, how are they going to deal with that?” Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy, t...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump Returns from China with Little Progress on Reopening Hormuz
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“Negotiations are deadlocked, violence erupts sporadically and the economic costs of the prolonged closing of the Strait of Hormuz are rising,” Bloomberg Economics defense lea...
By Becca Wasser
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Trump Warns Taiwan Against Declaring Independence from China After Meeting Xi
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Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the trip ultimately was more about setting a tone than about deliverables, which Trump usually se...
By Jacob Stokes
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Hellscape Taiwan: Drones, Deterrence, and the Future of Asymmetric DefenseStacie Pettyjohn joined the Irregular Warfare Podcast to examine how Taiwan could deter—or potentially defeat—a Chinese invasion by transforming the Taiwan Strait into an “unm...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Cubans Brace for U.S. "Invasion" as Tensions Rise
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Europe Troop Move Puts Spotlight on Last Man Out of AfghanistanBy Jim Townsend
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Hellscape Taiwan: Drones, Deterrence, and the Future of Asymmetric DefenseStacie Pettyjohn joined the Irregular Warfare Podcast to examine how Taiwan could deter—or potentially defeat—a Chinese invasion by transforming the Taiwan Strait into an “unm...
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Trump Warns Taiwan Against Declaring Independence from China After Meeting Xi
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China Gains Major Edge on U.S. Amid Iran War, Intelligence Report Finds
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National Security Human Capital
The Kid Rock Flyby Controversy and the Erosion of Military ProfessionalismAdherence to high standards and a willingness to conduct investigations when those standards may have been violated are a feature of the American military and contribute in no...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Beyond the Selective Service MythsBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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‘Insatiable’ Demand: Inside the Fight for a Bigger U.S. Special Forces BudgetBy Jim Townsend
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Europe Troop Move Puts Spotlight on Last Man Out of AfghanistanDowngrading to a lieutenant general would be “against the grain” for allies who see Russia as a near-term threat, said Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of def...
By Jim Townsend
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Russia’s War Is Going Badly—on the Ground and in the AirBy Franz-Stefan Gady
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What’s Behind the Pentagon Scrapping the Deployment of 4,000 U.S. Troops to Poland?
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Holding Off on New Iran Strikes After Gulf AppealPresident Donald Trump said he called off a strike on Iran after an appeal by the leaders of Persian Gulf allies, who called for more time to pursue a diplomatic resolution. C...
By Chris Kennedy
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
The Global Power Shift No One Is Talking About – And Who’s Driving ItBy Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Why Trump’s Efforts to Force Iran to Concede to U.S. Demands Aren’t WorkingBy Richard Fontaine
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Invested Allies
The United States is seeking to strengthen its domestic capabilities and supply chain resilience in a number of sectors critical for its economic security, including semicondu...
By Geoffrey Gertz & Eleanor Hume
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Stability Without Deterrence Doesn't Work, with Sara Schuman
By Emily Kilcrease
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Holding Off on New Iran Strikes After Gulf AppealBy Chris Kennedy
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Technology & National Security / National Security Law
CNAS Insights | The Case for Long-Term CISA 2015 ReauthorizationLast fall, one of the United States’ most important cyber defense laws expired. For six weeks, the private sector no longer had legal protections to share critical cyber threa...
By Carrie Cordero & Morgan Peirce
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Technology & National Security
China Wants A.I. To Flourish, but Not at the Expense of JobsBy Ruby Scanlon
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Technology & National Security
Will AI Go Rogue?By Caleb Withers
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Technology & National Security / National Security Law
CNAS Insights | The Case for Long-Term CISA 2015 ReauthorizationLast fall, one of the United States’ most important cyber defense laws expired. For six weeks, the private sector no longer had legal protections to share critical cyber threa...
By Carrie Cordero & Morgan Peirce
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Legal Background: Distinguishing Between Law Enforcement Powers
By Matthew Kroscher
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An Achievable Balance
By Terrence M. Cunningham & Gene Voegtlin
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Transatlantic Security / Global Swing States
Beyond the SahelRussia has been expanding its engagement in Africa under President Vladimir Putin, seeking to increase Russia’s access to resources (either natural or military, including port...
By Kate Johnston, Valeria Allende & Isabel Dlabach
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CNAS Insights | Why the “Swing States” Approach Is Right for Africa
By Gibbs McKinley
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How the U.S. and South Africa Could Use the G20 to Plot a Path Forward
By Richard Fontaine & Gibbs McKinley
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