Center for a New American Security

Our Research Programs

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  Defense

  • • Commentary
    The Eroding Balance of Terror

    Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars,” the American nuclear strategist Bernard Brodie wrote in 1946. “From now on its chief purpose mu...

    By Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr.

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

    By Elbridge Colby

  • • In The News
    U.S. Gives Russia a Deadline on Nuclear Treaty

    By Elbridge Colby

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  Asia-Pacific Security

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

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to give this island nation what effectively is its first aircraft carrier since World War II and will announce plans to purchase dozen...

    By Richard Fontaine

  • • In The News
    Senate Bill Targets Chinese Economic Espionage

    By Peter Harrell

  • • In The News
    Trump administration to condemn China over hacking and economic espionage, escalating tensions between superpowers

    By Ely Ratner

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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
    Amanda Sloat on Brexit

    Dr. Amanda Sloat, the Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at Brookings and DC’s Brexit expert, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Rachel Rizzo to discuss Brexit: how it happened, why ...

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

  • • Podcast
    Amb. Azita Raji on Nordic Regional Security

    By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Azita Raji

  • • Commentary
    Pompeo’s Speech in Brussels Was Tone-Deaf and Arrogant

    By Julianne Smith

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  Middle East Security

  • • In The News
    US sees renewed leverage over Assad in Syria

    The Donald Trump administration believes it has leverage over Russia and Iran to bring the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria back to the negotiating table and rekindle the UN-le...

    By Nicholas Heras

  • • Commentary
    Give Saudi Arabia a Take It or Leave It Deal

    By Ilan Goldenberg & Kaleigh Thomas

  • • Podcast
    When Middle East Peace Almost Happened

    By Ilan Goldenberg & Martin Indyk

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  Energy, Economics, & Security

  • • In The News
    Senate Bill Targets Chinese Economic Espionage

    A new Senate bill would expand the ability of American prosecutors to go after hackers abroad who attempt to steal trade secrets from U.S. firms, in the latest effort in Washi...

    By Peter Harrell

  • • Congressional Testimony
    China’s Non-Traditional Espionage Against the United States: The Threat and Potential Policy Responses

    By Peter Harrell

  • • In The News
    Will Opec defy Trump's call for low oil prices?

    By Rachel Ziemba

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  Technology & National Security

  • • Podcast
    Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

    What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Or when a weapon that can hunt its own targets is hacked? Although it sounds like science fiction, the...

    By Ilan Goldenberg & Paul Scharre

  • • In The News
    U.S. intelligence sounds the alarm on the quantum gap with China

    By Elsa B. Kania

  • • Commentary
    Congress Can Help the United States Lead in Artificial Intelligence

    By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz

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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
    Progressives Should Embrace the Politics of Defense

    In his essay on what a progressive national security agenda should look like, Van Jackson proposes to stretch the common progressive position of anti-militarism to a more real...

    By Loren DeJonge Schulman

  • • Commentary
    American Foreign Policy Could Use More Prudence

    By Richard Fontaine

  • • In The News
    ‘Twists but no plot’: Trump’s diminishing foreign travel reflects a president scaling back foreign ambition

    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