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Drone Proliferation Dataset
Molly Campbell | September 10, 2024
AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security Risks
Bill Drexel, Caleb Withers | August 13, 2024
Over the Brink
Andrew Metrick, Philip Sheers, Stacie Pettyjohn | August 06, 2024
Building the Future Capital Campaign
May 22, 2024
Defense
Drone Proliferation Dataset
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Drone Proliferation Dataset tracks global transfers of military-grade aerial drones, regardless of size and capability, between 1...
Technology & National Security
AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security Risks
New AI capabilities may reshape the risk landscape for biothreats in several ways. AI is enabling new capabilities that might, in theory, allow advanced actors to optimize bio...
Defense
Over the Brink
A new era of nuclear deterrence is taking shape in the Indo-Pacific theater. As the People’s Republic of China (PRC) dramatically expands and modernizes its nuclear arsenal, t...
Building the Future Capital Campaign
In a world awash with challenges, the demand for the Center’s work has never been greater than today. The new campaign will ensure that CNAS can fulfill its critical mission n...
HIGH STAKES
High Stakes: Preparing the Next President is a new election-year initiative to explore the most pressing national security issues that will face the next administration.
Indo-Pacific Security
The Axis of Upheaval
The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
Middle East Security
Virtual Event | Confronting the Axis of Upheaval
Sep 20, 2024
Defense
Swarms over the Strait
The United States is betting that it can out-innovate China and use drones to defeat a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) invasion of Taiwan. Here, the United States should view U...
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Russia will be ‘at war’ with NATO if Ukraine long-range missile restrictions lifted, Putin warns
In The News
A group of key House Republicans also wrote to the president this week ahead of Blinken’s Ukraine trip, echoing appeals from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to lift the...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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CNAS Releases Open Source Dataset on Drone Proliferation
Press Release
Washington, September 10, 2024 – Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released the Drone Proliferation Dataset by Molly Campbell. As drones become an increasin...
By Molly Campbell
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CNAS Welcomes David McKenzie as Director of Communications
Washington, September 9, 2024 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to welcome David McKenzie as its new Director of Communications. In this role, McKenzi...
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Nippon Steel Left Hunting Next Step as US Takeover Flounders
In The News
A rejection of the deal could damp Japanese companies’ appetite to consider investing in the US, said Akira Igata, a lecturer at the University of Tokyo who specializes in eco...
By Akira Igata
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What the "rocket drone" Palianytsia means for Ukraine
In The News
I don't think this is a game-changing capability," Stacie Pettyjohn, the defense program director at the Center for a New American Security, told me. But if "Ukraine can acqui...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Russia will be ‘at war’ with NATO if Ukraine long-range missile restrictions lifted, Putin warns
A group of key House Republicans also wrote to the president this week ahead of Blinken’s Ukraine trip, echoing appeals from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to lift the...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Sharper: Drones on the Battlefield
By Anna Pederson & Molly Campbell
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CNAS Releases Open Source Dataset on Drone Proliferation
By Molly Campbell
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Russia will be ‘at war’ with NATO if Ukraine long-range missile restrictions lifted, Putin warns
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Why Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are teaming up
Probably the most surprising thing about the war in Ukraine is that Russia is getting a ton of help. North Korea and Iran are sending it millions of rounds of ammunition and l...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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How to Revamp Chinese Students’ American Education
By Bill Drexel & Grace Gao
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Nippon Steel Left Hunting Next Step as US Takeover Flounders
By Akira Igata
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Why Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are teaming up
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U.S. military must reinforce Guam's crumbling infrastructure
In Guam, one is quickly struck by the juxtaposition of crystal-clear waters with crumbling infrastructure and abandoned cars strewn across the small Pacific island. Following ...
By Taren Sylvester & Evan Wright
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Air Force Families Must Be Prepared for Catastrophic Events Amid Shift to Potential Pacific Conflict, Service Chief Says
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Pentagon updates guidance for protecting military personnel from ‘blast overpressure’
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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U.S. military must reinforce Guam's crumbling infrastructure
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Splitting the Atom on U.S. Nuclear Strategy
Earlier this year, the Biden administration revised its nuclear strategy, the nuclear employment guidance, which is updated approximately every four years. This time, however,...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, James Acton & Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Sharper: Drones on the Battlefield
By Anna Pederson & Molly Campbell
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Germany's Historic Elections and What Comes Next
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Daniela Schwarzer & Christopher Schuetze
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Splitting the Atom on U.S. Nuclear Strategy
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Sharper: Axis of Upheaval
A loose but growing coalition between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea demonstrates that their combined strategic interests have the potential to pose significant economic...
By Anna Pederson
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Biden’s Ukraine Strategy Is Missing in Action
By Jonathan Lord
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The United States Should Not Ignore Kuwait’s Democratic Backslide
By Aaron Arnett
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Sharper: Axis of Upheaval
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Geopolitical Doomscrolling
Geoff and Emily talk about the tensions between social media platforms and governments around the world, including Telegram’s troubles in France and X’s spats with Brazil and ...
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz & Carrie Cordero
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Nippon Steel Left Hunting Next Step as US Takeover Flounders
By Akira Igata
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How national security has transformed economic policy
By Emily Kilcrease
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Geopolitical Doomscrolling
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Sharper: Drones on the Battlefield
From the battlefields of Libya to Nagorno-Karabakh to Ukraine, the deployment of drones has become a critical element of modern warfare. Will the explosion of unmanned aerial ...
By Anna Pederson & Molly Campbell
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How to Revamp Chinese Students’ American Education
By Bill Drexel & Grace Gao
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‘Flamethrower drones’ shower Ukraine battlefield with molten thermite
By Samuel Bendett
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Sharper: Drones on the Battlefield
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How to Stop Rogue States Like Russia from Interfering in Our Politics
Democratic governments have done much to protect themselves in recent years. Still missing, however, is a mechanism for collective action....
By Richard Fontaine
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Geopolitical Doomscrolling
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz & Carrie Cordero
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Court to decide who can see secret evidence US has filed against TikTok
By Carrie Cordero
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How to Stop Rogue States Like Russia from Interfering in Our Politics
