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Daniel Remler | June 12, 2026
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Red Lines
Chinese advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems pose a serious and growing threat to U.S. national security. At least seven Chinese developers now produce systems with f...
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Thwarting Communications Blackout
Control over the physical means of transmitting information—the lifeblood of modern societies—has become a central area of contestation between Taiwan and the United States on...
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The Entanglement Edge
Quantum networking—technologies that transmit quantum states between nodes—is an underappreciated but potentially consequential dimension of U.S.-China quantum competition....
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Invested Allies
The United States is seeking to strengthen its domestic capabilities and supply chain resilience in a number of sectors critical for its economic security, including semicondu...
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CNAS Insights | Sovereign AI’s Second Wave Is Coming Into View
Earlier this year, CNAS launched the Sovereign AI Index to track every government-backed sovereign AI project since 2023. These projects seek to improve a country’s AI self-re...
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CNAS Insights | Japan isn’t rearming. It’s adapting to a new era.
Japan’s defense posture is changing and changing fast. Military spending has increased sharply over the past four years. Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF) are acquiring long-r...
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CNAS Insights | Washington Can’t Afford to Ignore AI’s Warning Shot
On July 21, OpenAI disclosed the first publicly known incident of AI models escaping their isolated testing environment, gaining unauthorized internet access and hacking into ...
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Pivot from Asia? What Trump’s South Korea ‘shock’ says about US strategy
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Richard Fontaine, chief executive of the Centre for a New American Security and a former Republican foreign policy adviser, says there have been “a number of contradictions an...
By Richard Fontaine
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Technology & National Security
The U.S. Banned Nvidia’s Best Chips From Going to China. Now It’s Trying to Close a Crucial LoopholeMichelle Nie, a visiting fellow in technology and national security at think tank Center for a New American Security, told CNBC that loophole was “threatening U.S. national se...
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Air Force Security Teams Want to Train With Chinese-Made Drones at Nuclear BaseIt’s not surprising that the Air Force wants to buy DJI drones given how prevalent they have been used in recent wars, said Samuel Bendett, with the Russia studies program at ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Xi, Putin, Kim Flex Muscles in Pacific as Trump Pulls Last Aircraft Carrier
In The News
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a former U.S. national intelligence officer serving today as senior fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New Am...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Threatening Friends and Courting Enemies in Trump’s ‘Upside-Down World’
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Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and a former adviser to Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said that none of the bomba...
By Richard Fontaine
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Why Does the U.S. Military Seem Stymied in the War With Iran?
Defense analyst Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and program director at the Center for a New American Security, says while the U.S. military is facing long-range missile sho...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Turns to Containing the Fallout From Setbacks in Iran
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Reaper Losses Mount as Iran War Reshapes Drone Warfare
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Why Does the U.S. Military Seem Stymied in the War With Iran?
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South Korea Hopes for Talks Between U.S. and North Korea After Trump Downsizes Military Drills
Duyeon Kim, an adjunct senior fellow at Washington’s Center for a New American Security, said “reducing joint drills weakens military readiness over time against another poten...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Japan Is Emerging as a Regional Security Power Broker
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China Presses a Weakness in America’s Tech Policy
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South Korea Hopes for Talks Between U.S. and North Korea After Trump Downsizes Military Drills
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Air Power Not Air Forces with Tobias SwitzerIn this episode of Books to Battles, Tobias Bernard Switzer, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, discusses his new RAND report, Air Power, Not ...
By Tobias Switzer
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Sailors on Carriers Like the USS Abraham Lincoln Feel the Strain as Navy Deployments Stretch LongerBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Power of Influence Is Built in the Little ThingsBy JoAnne Bass
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Will the U.S. Allies Be Able to Shift From Dependency to Strategic Autonomy?
President Donald Trump has been pushing traditional allies to shoulder more of their own defense burden. Such directives are leaving longtime US partners seeking to shift thei...
By Jim Townsend
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Xi, Putin, Kim Flex Muscles in Pacific as Trump Pulls Last Aircraft Carrier
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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From Subversion to Resistance: Lessons from Russia’s War in Ukraine
By Celeste Wallander
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Will the U.S. Allies Be Able to Shift From Dependency to Strategic Autonomy?
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Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies
Alex Zerden, the founder of the risk advisory firm Capitol Peak Strategies and a former official in the Treasury Department’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, n...
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Trump’s Remaining Economic Levers in Iran Fraught With Risks
By Alex Zerden
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Iran-Linked Crypto Exchange Handled $6.3 Billion, TRM Says
By Alex Zerden
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Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies
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Whither the Coalition?
Executive Summary The future of Taiwan, a self-governing island democracy that is claimed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), remains one of the most complex and fraught ...
By Emily Kilcrease & James Crabtree
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What Bessent’s Economic Isolation of Iran Could Look Like
By Chris Kennedy
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OpenAI Barrels Toward IPO, U.S. Readies Iran Econ Attack
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Whither the Coalition?
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Insights | Sovereign AI’s Second Wave Is Coming Into ViewEarlier this year, CNAS launched the Sovereign AI Index to track every government-backed sovereign AI project since 2023. These projects seek to improve a country’s AI self-re...
By Pablo Chavez, Vivek Chilukuri & Ruby Scanlon
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Technology & National Security
Air Force Security Teams Want to Train With Chinese-Made Drones at Nuclear BaseBy Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Is AI All Hype or the Real Deal?By Anthony Vinci
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Women’s Share of Top Military Promotions Falls as Hegseth Blocks Nominees
High-ranking officers, referred to as general and flag officers, hold “a position of incredible importance,” said Mark Nevitt, a professor of law at Emory University, adjunct ...
By Mark Nevitt
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How Congress Can Regulate Military Promotions After Trump v. Slaughter
By Mark Nevitt
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Ex-Trump Adviser John Bolton Pleads Guilty to Mishandling Classified Documents
By Carrie Cordero
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Women’s Share of Top Military Promotions Falls as Hegseth Blocks Nominees
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CNAS Insights | New Rules for U.S. Foreign Aid
Join us for the CNAS 2026 National Security Conference: New Rules, on Thursday, June 11!...
By Gibbs McKinley
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Transatlantic Security / Global Swing States
Beyond the SahelBy Kate Johnston, Valeria Allende & Isabel Dlabach
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CNAS Insights | Why the “Swing States” Approach Is Right for Africa
By Gibbs McKinley
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CNAS Insights | New Rules for U.S. Foreign Aid
