Center for a New American Security

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  Defense

  • • In The News
    U.S. Increasingly Concerned About a Chinese Attack on Taiwan

    The U.S. Defense Department is increasingly concerned that China’s growing military might could embolden it to launch a full-out attack on Taiwan. A new assessment of China’s...

    By Elbridge Colby

  • • Reports
    Rethinking Requirements and Risk in the New Space Age

    By John J. Klein

  • • Commentary
    Dear Pentagon: It’s Not How Big Your Budget Is. It’s How You Use It.

    By Susanna V. Blume

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  Asia-Pacific Security

  • • In The News
    U.S. Increasingly Concerned About a Chinese Attack on Taiwan

    The U.S. Defense Department is increasingly concerned that China’s growing military might could embolden it to launch a full-out attack on Taiwan. A new assessment of China’s...

    By Elbridge Colby

  • • Commentary
    It's Time for the U.S.-South Korea Alliance to Evolve

    By Kristine Lee

  • • Commentary
    A New Cold War Has Begun

    By Robert D. Kaplan

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  Military, Veterans, & Society

  • • Commentary
    To Retain Today’s Talent, the DoD Must Support Dual-Professional Couples

    Talent management in the Department of Defense has received a great deal of critical attention over the last few years, but much of this thinking has centered on how the milit...

    By Tom Barron

  • • In The News
    'Badass' national security women offer Democrats a Trump antidote

    By Dr. Jason Dempsey

  • • Commentary
    There Really Is No Place For Hazing In A Professional Military

    By Kayla M. Williams

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  Transatlantic Security

  • • Video
    Gift to Putin? Trump considered quitting NATO

    Trump said several times he wanted to withdraw from NATO, the NYT reported. How would that play into Putin's hands? Brian Todd reports. View the full video and more from CNN....

    By Andrea Kendall-Taylor

  • • In The News
    Trump and Putin Have Met Five Times. What Was Said Is a Mystery.

    By Victoria Nuland

  • • Commentary
    What’s Worse Than Brexit? This.

    By Rachel Rizzo

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  Middle East Security

  • • In The News
    How Trump's Withdrawal Threatens The Secretive Hunt For ISIS Members In Syria

    President Trump’s order to withdraw US troops from Syria threatens to cripple US-led efforts to kill and capture ISIS members who continue to launch insurgent-style attacks ac...

    By Nicholas Heras

  • • In The News
    American Troops Die in Syria as Trump Team Squabbles

    By Loren DeJonge Schulman

  • • Commentary
    If Trump Wants to Get Out of Syria, He Should Strike a Deal With Russia

    By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras

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  Energy, Economics, & Security

  • • Commentary
    The Goals of Sanctioning Russia

    By Peter Harrell: Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, U.S. sanctions have been designed to change Russia’s behavior. Sanctions on lending to large Russian banks and ene...

  • • Commentary
    Russia Sanctions in 2019: Clarifying a Strategy
  • • Commentary
    How to Hit Russia Where It Hurts

    By Peter Harrell

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  Technology & National Security

  • • In The News
    Autonomous weapons and the new laws of war

    The Harop, a kamikaze drone, bolts from its launcher like a horse out of the gates. But it is not built for speed, nor for a jockey. Instead it just loiters, unsupervised, too...

    By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz

  • • Commentary
    How Congress can help ensure US leadership in artificial intelligence

    By Paul Scharre & Ainikki Riikonen

  • • Commentary
    Why China’s Military Wants to Beat the US to a Next-Gen Cell Network

    By Elsa B. Kania

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  Future of Warfare

  • • Podcast
    Loren DeJonge Schulman on Drones

    Defense One Radio talks about drones, the national security bureaucracy, and the American way of war (1:49) with Loren DeJonge Schulman of the Center for a New American Securi...

    By Loren DeJonge Schulman

  • • Podcast
    Resisting Magical Thinking: Drones and National Security

    By Loren DeJonge Schulman

  • • Commentary
    What the Interwar Years Say About the US Army’s Newest Force Concept

    By Lauren Fish

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  Strategy & Statecraft

  • • Commentary
    The Shutdown Is Doing Lasting Damage to National Security

    As the longest government shutdown in American history drags on, it’s not just hurting the morale of America’s federal work force and the broader American economy. It’s hurtin...

    By Carrie Cordero & Joshua A. Geltzer

  • • Commentary
    In a single tweet, Trump destroys U.S. policy in the Middle East

    By Victoria Nuland

  • • Commentary
    Progressives Should Embrace the Politics of Defense

    By Loren DeJonge Schulman

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  Papers for the President

  • • Press Release
    Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class

    Washington, October 4 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) congratulates three Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship alumni who were named as 2017–20...

    By Neal Urwitz

  • • Reports
    Drone Proliferation

    By Elisa Catalano Ewers, Lauren Fish, Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre

  • • Video
    National Security Forum: Civilian-Military Relations
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  Women in National Security

  • • Podcast
    Bombshell: Come What May

    Erin, Radha, and Loren invited Dr. Lindsay Cohn of the U.S. Naval War College to join their posse and explain America’s history of employing the military for domestic purposes...

    By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Lindsay Cohn, Radha Iyengar & Erin Simpson

  • • In The News
    With Haley’s departure, senior Trump ranks feature even fewer women and minorities

    By Loren DeJonge Schulman

  • • Commentary
    The Messy Reality Inside the Pentagon, Captured in Fiction

    By Loren DeJonge Schulman