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Preparing the Next President
October 20, 2016
Sec. William Perry Honored with the CNAS Distinguished National Security Leadership Award
Technology & National Security
Surveillance Policy
Today, the United States faces a more diverse, more complex array of national security threats than ever before. With ever more human activity taking place on electronic netwo...
Technology & National Security
Future Foundry
In June 2014, the Center for a New American Security released “Creative Disruption: Technology, Strategy and the Future of the Global Defense Industry.” The paper argued that ...
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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, Michele Flournoy, Richard Fontaine, James P. Rubin, Stephen J. Hadley, Dr. Robert Kagan & Robert Zoellick
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CNAS Commentary: Can the U.S.-Philippine Alliance Endure Duterte?
Philippine President Roberto 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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Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan
This report critically examines the relevance of the U.S. intelligence community to the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan and provides a blueprint for how the United ...
By Matt Pottinger, Michael T. Flynn & Paul D. Batchelor
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Power and Order in the South China Sea
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Despite numerous calls for a more cooperative relationship, U.S.-China ties appear to be on an increasingly competitive trajectory.1 Nowhere has this seemed more apparent than...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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Transatlantic Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific
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When the Obama administration announced its strategic rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region in 2011, a number of European capitals initially worried that it would be followed b...
By Julianne Smith, Erik Brattberg & Rachel Rizzo
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What Should Mattis Look for in a Deputy?
If retired Gen. James Mattis is confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump’s first secretary of defense, he will take over arguably the largest bureaucracy in the world. The q...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The United States and Russia Are Already at War
By Alex Velez-Green
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Why the Trump Administration Should Adopt a Mission-Oriented Combatant Command Structure
By Lauren Fish
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What Should Mattis Look for in a Deputy?
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China Arms Its Great Wall of Sand
For a man who stood at the White House in September 2015 and promised not to militarize the South China Sea, Xi Jinping is sure doing a lot of militarizing. Satellite photos r...
By CDR Thomas Shugart, USN
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The Strategist Six
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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4 Ways Trump Can Avoid a North Korea Disaster
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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China Arms Its Great Wall of Sand
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Report: DOD needs new strategy to regain technological edge
The United States is facing growing cyber and electronic warfare threats, and the Department of Defense needs to develop a new "optionality strategy" in order to regain its te...
By Ben FitzGerald, Alexandra Sander & Jacqueline Parziale
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To Innovate, Hill and DoD Must Get Comfortable With Failure
By Michele Flournoy
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Future Foundry: DOD Innovation and the NDAA
By Michele Flournoy, Christian Brose, Raj Shah & Gordon Lubold
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Report: DOD needs new strategy to regain technological edge
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CNAS Commentary: Trump Administration Defense Priorities
As President-elect Donald Trump weighs his options for the next secretary of defense and for his defense agenda, CNAS Future of Warfare Initiative Director Paul Scharre and CN...
By Neal Urwitz
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Pentagon investing billions to develop autonomous weapons
By Paul Scharre
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A Revolution in Artificial Intelligence
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Commentary: Trump Administration Defense Priorities
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Obama has degraded ISIS. Can Trump finish the job?
The Obama administration is publicly handing Donald Trump a gift as he prepares to enter the White House: a degraded ISIS. The question is what the President-elect will do wit...
By Julianne Smith
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Australia and President Trump: Four Risks and Twelve Opportunities
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Four-Star Friends
By Julianne Smith
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Obama has degraded ISIS. Can Trump finish the job?
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Obama has degraded ISIS. Can Trump finish the job?
The Obama administration is publicly handing Donald Trump a gift as he prepares to enter the White House: a degraded ISIS. The question is what the President-elect will do wit...
By Julianne Smith
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Trump can’t be pals with Putin and stand up to Iran
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Battle for Aleppo
By Richard Fontaine
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Obama has degraded ISIS. Can Trump finish the job?
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Obama Administration Races To Shore Up Iran Nuclear Deal
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Happy Thanksgiving. Congressional Republicans are urging the Obama administration not to loosen sanctions on Iran during Obama's last two months in office....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Obama Seeks to Fortify Iran Nuclear Deal
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Don't tear up Iran nuclear deal — more sanctions strengthen US hand
By Peter Harrell
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Obama Administration Races To Shore Up Iran Nuclear Deal
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Former DoD Comptroller Hale Offers Cost-Cutting Reform Agenda
The year-end ritual across the Defense Department is “use it or lose it,” with employees racing to spend every last dollar on office equipment and information technology, hopi...
By Robert F. Hale
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Veterans Groups Urge Donald Trump to Keep Current VA Secretary
By Sec. Robert McDonald
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Air Force One Costs Billions of Dollars Because It’s a Flying White House
By Phillip Carter
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Former DoD Comptroller Hale Offers Cost-Cutting Reform Agenda