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Strategic Competition in an Era of Artificial Intelligence
This report is part of the Center for a New American Security’s series on Artificial Intelligence and International Security...
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The US Military Should Not Be Doubling Down on Space
Yes, a #SpaceForce is a dumb idea, but not because @realDonaldTrump said it. The U.S. military has real problems in space and a Space Force is likely to make them worse, not b...
Technology & National Security
Technology and Innovation in an Era of U.S.-China Strategic Competition
China has taken significant steps to implement national strategies and encourage investment aimed at surpassing the U.S. in high-tech fields like artificial intelligence. In t...
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Beyond the San Hai
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The United States has enjoyed largely uncontested naval supremacy across the blue waters, or open oceans, for decades. The rapid emergence of an increasingly global People’s L...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper, Harry Krejsa, Alexander Sullivan & Rush Doshi
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Women are the Most Visible Servicemembers, and the Most Invisible Veterans
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One of the questions I’m most frequently asked when people find out I’m a veteran is, “But you didn’t go in harm’s way, did you?” I’ve been asked this question since I first j...
By Andrea N. Goldstein
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The Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
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The next president will inherit a relationship with Russia fraught with more tension than at any point since the Cold War. Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine sparked fear that ...
By Julianne Smith & Adam Twardowski
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#Virtual Caliphate
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Many policymakers, intelligence analysts, and academics believe expelling the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from Mosul and Raqqah is the key to t...
By General Joseph L. Votel, LTC Christina Bembenek, Charles Hans, Jeffery Mouton & Amanda Spencer
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Extending American Power
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Foreword by Robert Kagan and James P. Rubin Over the past year, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) brought together an extraordinary group of scholars, practitione...
By Amb. Eric S. Edelman, James B. Steinberg, Julianne Smith, Kurt Campbell, Michèle Flournoy, Richard Fontaine, James P. Rubin, Stephen J. Hadley, Dr. Robert Kagan & Robert Zoellick
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Adam Routh Speaks to i24News about Space Force
Adam Routh, Research Associate at the Center for a New American Security, and John Jordan, former intelligence officer and Republican strategist, speak with i24News Anchor Mic...
By Adam Routh
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The U.S. Military Should Be Doubling Down on Space
By Adam Routh
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The Army’s New Futures Command Will Succeed or Fail by Congress’s Hand
By Cole Stevens
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Adam Routh Speaks to i24News about Space Force
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South China Sea militarization part of larger Chinese challenge to U.S. power
Tensions are rising in the South China Sea as China builds up military resources in contested waters and the United States Navy asserts its presence in the region, but experts...
By Dr. Daniel Kliman
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China: We Might Help Assad With the War in Syria
By Abigail Grace
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McCain Institute's In The Arena Podcast - Ely Ratner
By Ely Ratner
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South China Sea militarization part of larger Chinese challenge to U.S. power
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Researchers Find Transgender Veterans Are as Healthy as Their Cisgender Peers
“The navy was something I always wanted to do, ever since I saw the Blue Angels as a little kid,” Chief Petty Officer Sarah Sardinha tells me. “I knew I wanted to work on figh...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Stand-To: Live From Washington D.C.! Real Stories of Health and Wellbeing
By Kayla M. Williams
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How The Media’s Narrow Portrayal Of Service Members Does The Military A Disservice
By Emma Moore
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Researchers Find Transgender Veterans Are as Healthy as Their Cisgender Peers
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GZERO World S2E5: Victoria Nuland and a Lonely Europe
On the show, Ian Bremmer heads to DC to talk with former NATO ambassador and the Center for a New American Security CEO Victoria Nuland about why she thinks our European allie...
By Victoria Nuland
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Julie Smith and Jim Townsend Reflect on the Podcast and Julie’s Upcoming Transition to Berlin
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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The Trump mystery: Pathology or kompromat
By Victoria Nuland & Rep. Adam Schiff
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GZERO World S2E5: Victoria Nuland and a Lonely Europe
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It's time to talk to the Taliban about peace
In recent days there has been a lot more gruesome news from Afghanistan. Taliban fighters invaded the strategic city of Ghazni, killing a hundred Afghan troops, dozens of civi...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Why US talks with the Taliban are suddenly on the table
By Nicholas Heras
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Inside the Secret Taliban Talks to End America’s Longest War
By Chris Kolenda
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It's time to talk to the Taliban about peace
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The Path to Renewed Oil Sanctions on Iran
On August 5, the Trump administration reinstated a first set of U.S. sanctions on Iran that had been suspended under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear dea...
By Peter Harrell
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Lifting U.S. Sanctions on a Russian Aluminum Giant Is Not a Gift to the Kremlin
By Neil Bhatiya
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Trump administration’s use of sanctions draws concern
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The Path to Renewed Oil Sanctions on Iran
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Artificial intelligence beyond the superpowers
Much of the debate over how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect geopolitics focuses on the emerging arms race between Washington and Beijing, as well as investments by ma...
By Michael Horowitz & Itai Barsade
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Why AI researchers shouldn’t turn their backs on the military
By Paul Scharre
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Battlefield Internet
By Michèle Flournoy & Dr. Michael Sulmeyer
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Artificial intelligence beyond the superpowers
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Why Drones Are Still the Future of War
In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald argue, based on their research interviewing U.S. ground troops, that troops prefer close air suppo...
By Paul Scharre
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U.S. alliances need to reflect needs of modern warfare, experts say
By Paul Scharre
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Military Not Ready for the Next Larger War, Experts Say
By Paul Scharre
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Why Drones Are Still the Future of War
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Bloomberg Surveillance: Beyond the Trade War
Ian Bremmer and CNAS's Robert Kaplan discuss with Tom Keene the causes and implications of the U.S./China trade war and the concepts around their respective new books, Us...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Robert D. Kaplan Says Trump Is 'Rhetorically Dismantling' U.S. Alliances
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Surveillance: A Story of Fading Tax Stimulus with Zentner
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Bloomberg Surveillance: Beyond the Trade War
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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
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Drone Proliferation
By Elisa Catalano Ewers, Lauren Fish, Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class
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A Woman? No Way!
Who would have known that my commissioning in the U.S. Army would lead me to such an unthinkable assignment? I arrived in the Middle East as a country engagement officer. Alth...
By Asha Castleberry
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The (Mostly) Good News on Women in Combat
By Andrew Swick & Emma Moore
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Women In National Security: Morgan Ortagus and Samantha Vinograd
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Samantha Vinograd & Morgan Ortagus
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A Woman? No Way!
