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Press Release: CNAS and 21st Century Fox Launch National Security Film & Television Series
Neal Urwitz | October 17, 2017
Press Release: Flournoy to Transition to Board of Directors December 31; Three New Board Members Added
Washington, October 16 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Board of Directors today announced that former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson; former c...
Defense Strategies & Assessments
Why the United States Needs a 355-Ship Navy Now
If we do not maintain global supremacy on the seas, nations hostile to our principles will fill the gaps. One of President Trump’s signature campaign promises to the American...
Transatlantic Security
'Across the Pond, In the Field': bringing U.S. foreign policy out of the Washington bubble
Like many folks in the nation’s capital, I’m not originally from Washington. I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and return home to the Midwest at least a couple times every y...
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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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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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#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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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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CNAS Commentary: Can the U.S.-Philippine Alliance Endure Duterte?
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is continuing his anti-American campaign with two latest bombshell statements, first calling for the fewer than 200 American Special Opera...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin & Anthony Cho
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Why the United States Needs a 355-Ship Navy Now
If we do not maintain global supremacy on the seas, nations hostile to our principles will fill the gaps. One of President Trump’s signature campaign promises to the American...
By Jerry Hendrix & Robert C. O'Brien
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CNAS Commentary: Prospects for a Defense Budget Deal
By Susanna Blume
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Worries about Trump’s Generals Are Overblown
By Adam Routh & Jerry Hendrix
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Why the United States Needs a 355-Ship Navy Now
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What the World Can Learn from Taiwan's China Experience
As China’s economic gravity becomes inescapable and its military reach extends into the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean, nations large and small are trying to benefit fro...
By Dr. Daniel Kliman & Harry Krejsa
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Uncle Sam is here to stay
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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What the U.S. is actually getting right on North Korea
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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What the World Can Learn from Taiwan's China Experience
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Questionable Calls
President Donald Trump has a talent for giving offense. Whether through mangled syntax or malicious statements, the president often finds a way to insult. So it is with Trump’...
By Phillip Carter
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Women in National Security: Dr. Nora Bensahel
By Julianne Smith
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Former Army Secretary: Donald Trump’s Transgender Troops Ban Weakens the Military
By Eric Fanning
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Questionable Calls
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'Across the Pond, In the Field': bringing U.S. foreign policy out of the Washington bubble
Like many folks in the nation’s capital, I’m not originally from Washington. I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and return home to the Midwest at least a couple times every y...
By Julianne Smith
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National Competition in Artificial Intelligence
By Paul Scharre & Neal Urwitz
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Report: Russia Continues to Use Nuclear Threats to Intimidate Neighbors
By Richard Fontaine
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'Across the Pond, In the Field': bringing U.S. foreign policy out of the Washington bubble
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Iraqi Forces Clash With Kurdish Fighters Near Kirkuk
Iraqi forces clashed with fighters from the Kurdish semiautonomous region in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk early Monday, Iraqi and Kurdish officials said, in a standoff over...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump, U.S. allies disagree on Iran nuclear deal
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump de-certifies Iran nuclear deal, announces more sanctions against Iran
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Iraqi Forces Clash With Kurdish Fighters Near Kirkuk
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Trump, U.S. allies disagree on Iran nuclear deal
Ilan Goldenberg joins CBSN to explain what President Trump's decision to not recertify the Iran nuclear deal means for U.S. foreign relations, as key allies France, Germany an...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump kicks Iran Deal to Congress
By Ilan Goldenberg
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PODCAST: Trump decertifies Iran nuclear deal: What happens now?
By Ilan Goldenberg, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Julianne Smith
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Trump, U.S. allies disagree on Iran nuclear deal
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CNAS Event: A Conversation with Sir Adrian Fulford, UK Investigatory Powers Commissioner
Last year, the United Kingdom passed the Investigatory Powers Bill, which codifies the British government's domestic surveillance authorities. The bill req...
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Army Prepares for Complex, Lethal Battlefields of the Future
By Paul Scharre
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The Effect of New Technologies on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament: Artificial Intelligence, Hypersonic Technology and Outer Space
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Event: A Conversation with Sir Adrian Fulford, UK Investigatory Powers Commissioner
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UAS are everywhere, and it takes all types of technology to defeat them
The drone buzzed over U.S. ground troops in southern Syria. It was big, about the size of a Predator, and it was armed. Without warning, it fired. The munition “hit dirt,” a P...
By Paul Scharre
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The Collapsing Battlespace: NATO–Russian Nuclear Stability in an Era of Technological Upheaval
By Alexander Velez-Green
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Drones Podcast Series: Military and Non-State Actor Uses of Commercial Drones
By Jeremy Hsu, Paul Scharre & Alexandra Sander
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UAS are everywhere, and it takes all types of technology to defeat them
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Trump Can't Just Walk Away From the Iran Deal. It's Not an Atlantic City Casino.
Last November, the election results indicated that the nation was disappointed with the performance of its politicians, and so it decided to bring in a property developer and ...
By Susanna Blume
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Former Army Secretary: Donald Trump’s Transgender Troops Ban Weakens the Military
By Eric Fanning
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'We are on a tightrope': Trump poised to walk away from Iran nuclear deal
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Can't Just Walk Away From the Iran Deal. It's Not an Atlantic City Casino.
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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
