Center for a New American Security

Our Research Programs

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  Defense

  • • In The News
    How Trump’s new chief of staff can impact the FY20 defense plan

    Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney’s takeover, at least temporarily, of the White House chief of staff position could have repercussions for defense spendi...

    By Susanna V. Blume

  • • Commentary
    The Eroding Balance of Terror

    By Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr.

  • • In The News
    As One Arms Treaty Falls Apart, Others Look Shakier

    By Elbridge Colby

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  Asia-Pacific Security

  • • Commentary
    In an Era of Divided Government, China Can Unite

    The televised bickering between President Trump and top Democratic leaders illustrates that, if political leaders find any consensus in 2019, it won’t be on the border wall. N...

    By Richard Fontaine

  • • In The News
    Asia Reassurance Initiative Act passed by US Senate will beef up engagement across Indo-Pacific

    By Patrick M. Cronin & Eric Sayers

  • • In The News
    With eyes on China and Trump, Japan to invest in ‘aircraft carrier,’ F-35 fighters

    By Richard Fontaine

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  Military, Veterans, & Society

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

    Virginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger had a potent defense against attacks by President Donald Trump and other Republicans casting her party as weak on national security: her c...

    By Dr. Jason Dempsey

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

    By Kayla M. Williams

  • • Commentary
    Congress should enhance reproductive health care for women veterans

    By Kayla M. Williams

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  Transatlantic Security

  • • Podcast
    Amb. Ian Bond on Brexit and What's Next for Europe

    Former Ambassador Ian Bond sits down with Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss his perspective on Brexit and what the future holds for the transatlantic relat...

    By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Ian Bond

  • • Commentary
    Congress must face reality in exposing Russian aggression

    By Elizabeth Rosenberg & ​Neil Bhatiya

  • • Podcast
    Amanda Sloat on Brexit

    By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Rachel Rizzo & Dr. Amanda Sloat

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  Middle East Security

  • • Commentary
    America’s Yo-Yo Diet in the Middle East

    President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria is a mistake. But unlike so many of his other ill-considered moves, this one is completely conventiona...

    By Ilan Goldenberg

  • • Podcast
    The Iran Nuclear Negotiations

    By Ilan Goldenberg & Wendy Sherman

  • • In The News
    Iran deal, Saudi murder: Turbulent year shakes up Middle East

    By Nicholas Heras

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  Energy, Economics, & Security

  • • In The News
    Why the Bitcoin bomb hoax signals a dangerous new era for cybersecurity

    School administrators, business owners and various other people across the U.S. and Canada received some strange emails on Thursday threatening them to pay $20,000 worth of Bi...

    By Sam Dorshimer

  • • Commentary
    Congress must face reality in exposing Russian aggression

    By Elizabeth Rosenberg & ​Neil Bhatiya

  • • In The News
    Trump's destabilizing "intervention" in Huawei CFO case

    By Elizabeth Rosenberg

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  Technology & National Security

  • • Podcast
    Quantum Hegemony

    China is positioning itself as a powerhouse in quantum science, posing a challenge to U.S. national security and innovation leadership. Elsa B. Kania, an Adjunct Fellow at CNA...

    By Elsa B. Kania, John Costello & Paul Scharre

  • • In The News
    Project Maven Overseer Will Lead Pentagon’s New AI Center

    By Paul Scharre

  • • In The News
    Washington must wake up to the abuse of software that kills

    By Vance Serchuk

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

    With his decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria, President Trump hands a huge New Year’s gift to President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamic State, the Kremlin and Tehran....

    By Victoria Nuland

  • • Commentary
    Progressives Should Embrace the Politics of Defense

    By Loren DeJonge Schulman

  • • Commentary
    American Foreign Policy Could Use More Prudence

    By Richard Fontaine

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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