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Disorderly Conduct
Emily Kilcrease, Adam Tong | June 26, 2024
Swarms over the Strait
Stacie Pettyjohn, Hannah Dennis, Molly Campbell | June 20, 2024
Back to the Drafting Board
Katherine L. Kuzminski, Taren Sylvester | June 18, 2024
Catalyzing Crisis
Bill Drexel, Caleb Withers | June 11, 2024
Disorderly Conduct
The United States must develop a strong, pragmatic strategy for advancing its economic and security interests within the U.S.-China economic relationship, accounting for the f...
Swarms over the Strait
Executive Summary Drones have transformed battlefields in Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Ukraine, but in a companion report, Evolution Not Revolution: Drone Warfare in Russia’s ...
Back to the Drafting Board
Executive Summary For the first time since the Cold War, the United States faces threats from great power competitors. These advanced threats—particularly the pacing threat of...
Catalyzing Crisis
Executive Summary The arrival of ChatGPT in November 2022 initiated both great excitement and fear around the world about the potential and risks of artificial intelligence (A...
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.
CNAS 2024 National Security Conference: High Stakes
Jun 6, 2024
The Axis of Upheaval
The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
The Quest for Qubits
Executive Summary The United Nations General Assembly recently declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.1 Quantum information science, a field on...
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Latest Cuts at Military Times Accelerates Decline of News Source to Airmen, Guardians
Katherine Kuzminski, Deputy Director of Studies and the Director of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington, D.C.-b...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Lost Decade — how the US fell behind in checking China
Precious little unites the clashing sides of American politics. But as they square off in the upcoming U.S. election, likely candidates Joe Biden and ex-president Donald Trump...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS Announces First Make Room Mentorship Program Cohort
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Ukraine’s F-16 Ambitions Snarled by Language Barrier, Runways and Parts
“People shouldn’t expect miracles” from the F-16s against Russia, said Jim Townsend, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. And in terms of vulnerabilities...
By Jim Townsend
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How Can Europe Reduce Its Military Dependency on the United States?
“European armies are too small to handle even the arms that they’ve got now,” said Jim Townsend, a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense now at the Center for a New Ameri...
By Jim Townsend
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US defence industry faces uncertainty despite production ‘boomlet’
"It is not quite a bonanza" for missiles and munitions "but it is, for the first time in a long time, a significant uptick in this area that has been sustained", said Stacie P...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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US Needs Longer-Range Drones for Potential China-Taiwan Conflict: Think Tank
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Swarms over the Strait
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Hannah Dennis & Molly Campbell
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US defence industry faces uncertainty despite production ‘boomlet’
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Lost Decade — how the US fell behind in checking China
Precious little unites the clashing sides of American politics. But as they square off in the upcoming U.S. election, likely candidates Joe Biden and ex-president Donald Trump...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden administration disturbed by Modi-Putin visit during NATO summit
By Lisa Curtis
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Modi’s Embrace of Putin Irks Biden Team Pushing Support for Kyiv
By Lisa Curtis
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Lost Decade — how the US fell behind in checking China
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Latest Cuts at Military Times Accelerates Decline of News Source to Airmen, Guardians
Katherine Kuzminski, Deputy Director of Studies and the Director of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington, D.C.-b...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Should women be drafted? Congress weighs the question yet again
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Back to the Drafting Board
By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Taren Sylvester
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Latest Cuts at Military Times Accelerates Decline of News Source to Airmen, Guardians
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A Night of NATO at the National Archives
Just a few weeks ago, leaders from across the globe gathered in Washington, D.C. for the historic 75th NATO summit. Over the course of the three-day event, allies engaged in d...
By Jim Townsend & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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75 Years of NATO: Key Takeaways from the Washington Summit
By Jim Townsend & Kate Johnston
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Air defence package for Ukraine could work alongside F-16s to halt Putin's attacks
By Jim Townsend
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A Night of NATO at the National Archives
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War with Hezbollah ‘lies in Israel’s hands’
It’s unclear whether Hezbollah would agree to any peace deal with Israel. But Netanyahu doesn’t want to pull out of Gaza: He seemingly rejected the cease-fire proposal that’s ...
By Jonathan Lord
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Senate Dems stew over Biden’s military sale to Israel
By Jonathan Lord
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Israel’s War of Regime Change Is Repeating America’s Mistakes
By Richard Fontaine, Meghan L. O'Sullivan & David H. Petraeus
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War with Hezbollah ‘lies in Israel’s hands’
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Economic Security in Asia Part 1: China's growing pains with Dan Rosen
Dan Rosen, leading expert on China's economy and head of the Rhodium Group's China practice, joins Emily and Geoff to talk about the recently concluded third plenum meetings i...
By Emily Kilcrease & Geoffrey Gertz
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What a Bunch of Malarkey!
By Emily Kilcrease & Geoffrey Gertz
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How U.S.-China Competition Upended the International Economic Order and What the United States Can Do to Fix It
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz, Adam Tong & Peter Harrell
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Economic Security in Asia Part 1: China's growing pains with Dan Rosen
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Quantum Computing in US-China Competition
A conversation between Bonnie Glaser and Sam Howell discussing the quantum computing, its applications, and its place in US-China competition.PRINT ARTICLEChina Global Podcast...
By Sam Howell & Bonnie Glaser
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Catalyzing Crisis
By Bill Drexel & Caleb Withers
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Nvidia’s New Sales Booster: The Global Push for National AI Champions
By Pablo Chavez
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Quantum Computing in US-China Competition
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Trump meets with Orbán, Saudis, Cameron as they prepare for his return
“Everyone is searching for clues as to what Trump would do if he got a second term,” said Richard Fontaine, a former State Department official and CEO of the Center for a New ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Will a FISA lapse cause a disaster? It depends on who you ask
By Carrie Cordero
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Trump Holds Series of Meetings With Foreign Leaders
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump meets with Orbán, Saudis, Cameron as they prepare for his return