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CNAS Welcomes Anna Saito Carson as Vice President of Development
November 13, 2018
Technology & National Security
Human Performance Enhancement
Executive Summary No attributes are more foundational to success in combat than the physical and cognitive performance of warfighters. Technological advantage has always playe...
Asia-Pacific Security
At APEC, Pence Has Unique Opportunity to Advance U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy
This is a make or break week for the Trump administration’s economic approach to Asia. A year ago at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) – the region’s premier ...
Transatlantic Security
Luke Coffey on Brexit and the Future of the Special Relationship
Luke Coffey, Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, sits down with Jim Townsend to talk about the future of UK defense...
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Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons
In The News
It’s a freezing, snowy day on the border between Estonia and Russia. Soldiers from the two nations are on routine border patrol, each side accompanied by an autonomous weapon ...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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To understand autonomous weapons, think about electronic warfare
In The News
Remotely piloted vehicles are an anomaly of open skies. For as much as the wars of the United States have been defined by drones and drone strikes, those missions are only pos...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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How the Generals Are Routing the Policy Wonks at the Pentagon
In The News
Frustrated by lack of influence and disheartened by U.S. President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, Department of Defense civilians are heading for the door, leaving key positions unf...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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At APEC, Pence Has Unique Opportunity to Advance U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy
Press Note
This is a make or break week for the Trump administration’s economic approach to Asia. A year ago at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) – the region’s premier ...
By Daniel Kliman
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Kim Jong Un is doing what he said he would
In The News
As Today’s WorldView noted last week, talks between the United States and North Korea have hit a rut. Now a new report from a respected Washington think tank that identified h...
By Duyeon Kim
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Anna Wieslander on Swedish Elections and the Nordic View of European Defense
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UK Director of International Security Policy on the US-UK Relationship and a Changing NATO
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Quantum Hegemony? China’s Ambitions and the Challenge to U.S. Innovation Leadership
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David Cohen talks with Michael Morell on "Intelligence Matters" podcast
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Susanna V. Blume on Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Bob Hale,(who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton &m...
By Susanna V. Blume
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To understand autonomous weapons, think about electronic warfare
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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How the Generals Are Routing the Policy Wonks at the Pentagon
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Susanna V. Blume on Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast
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Leverage the new US International Development Finance Corporation to compete with China
The United States has a unique opportunity to up its game in the global economic competition with China. In early October, even as Democrats and Republicans in the Senate enga...
By Daniel Kliman
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Assessing America's Indo-Pacific Budget Shortfall
By Eric Sayers
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What is the end game with China?
By Peter Harrell
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Leverage the new US International Development Finance Corporation to compete with China
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Here's what the US Army is doing to overcome recruitment challenges in Indiana, Midwest
Uncle Sam wants young people in the Midwest. But they don’t seem to want Uncle Sam. The U.S. Army, the oldest and largest branch of the nation’s military, has a problem that ...
By Emma Moore
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Trump rankles veterans with comments about PTSD and California shooter
By Kayla M. Williams
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The Mission Creep of Sending Troops To The US-Mexico Border
By Emma Moore
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Here's what the US Army is doing to overcome recruitment challenges in Indiana, Midwest
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Luke Coffey on Brexit and the Future of the Special Relationship
Luke Coffey, Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, sits down with Jim Townsend to talk about the future of UK defense...
By Jim Townsend & Luke Coffey
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Trump Gets NATO Backwards
By Richard Fontaine
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LtGen Jan Broeks and LtGen Esa Pulkkinen on EU/NATO Cooperation
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Jan Broeks & Esa Pulkkinen
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Luke Coffey on Brexit and the Future of the Special Relationship
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SDF says it arrested IS leader responsible for killing Raqqa tribal head
An official from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Wednesday announced the arrest of an Islamic State (IS) leader he said was responsible for the recent killing of one of ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Four killed in armed attack on Manbij security forces
By Nicholas Heras
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Turkey threatens Syria's Kurds: A headache for the US?
By Nicholas Heras
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SDF says it arrested IS leader responsible for killing Raqqa tribal head
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Iran And Trading Partners Will Find Ways To Skirt Sanctions, Analysts Say
The Trump administration hopes the sweeping sanctions it has imposed on Iran's oil, shipping and banking industries will cripple its economy and force it to negotiate a new nu...
By Peter Harrell & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Trump Has Only Sticks, No Carrots
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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U.S. sanctions take toll on the ill in Iran as medicine becomes scarce
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Iran And Trading Partners Will Find Ways To Skirt Sanctions, Analysts Say
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Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons
It’s a freezing, snowy day on the border between Estonia and Russia. Soldiers from the two nations are on routine border patrol, each side accompanied by an autonomous weapon ...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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To understand autonomous weapons, think about electronic warfare
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
- China's 'Civil-Military Fusion' Has Washington Worried
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Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons
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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
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Resisting Magical Thinking: Drones and National Security
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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What the Interwar Years Say About the US Army’s Newest Force Concept
By Lauren Fish
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Loren DeJonge Schulman on Drones
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How the Generals Are Routing the Policy Wonks at the Pentagon
Frustrated by lack of influence and disheartened by U.S. President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, Department of Defense civilians are heading for the door, leaving key positions unf...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump Gets NATO Backwards
By Richard Fontaine
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Amb. Nuland on N. Korea: The U.S. 'needs to get back into real diplomacy'
By Victoria Nuland
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How the Generals Are Routing the Policy Wonks at the Pentagon
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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
- National Security Forum: Civilian-Military Relations
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Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class
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With Haley’s departure, senior Trump ranks feature even fewer women and minorities
As an Indian American woman, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has occupied an unusual position in an administration whose broad lack of diversity at the highest levels of the feder...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The Messy Reality Inside the Pentagon, Captured in Fiction
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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A Woman? No Way!
By Asha Castleberry
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With Haley’s departure, senior Trump ranks feature even fewer women and minorities
