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Quantum Hegemony?
Elsa B. Kania, John Costello | September 12, 2018
Asia-Pacific Security
Power Play
Executive Summary The United States and China are in a competition to shape the course of the 21st century. At stake is whether the prevailing international order that has ba...
Asia-Pacific Security
Watch: Reporting from Xinjiang with Journalist Megha Rajagopalan
Sep 20, 2018
Defense
The Pentagon must modernize before it’s too late
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon has a genuinely new strategy: Focus on our rivals — Russia and, in particular, China — and maintain a competitiv...
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Beyond the San Hai
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The United States has enjoyed largely uncontested naval supremacy across the blue waters, or open oceans, for decades. The rapid emergence of an increasingly global People’s L...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper, Harry Krejsa, Alexander Sullivan & Rush Doshi
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Women are the Most Visible Servicemembers, and the Most Invisible Veterans
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One of the questions I’m most frequently asked when people find out I’m a veteran is, “But you didn’t go in harm’s way, did you?” I’ve been asked this question since I first j...
By Andrea N. Goldstein
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The Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
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The next president will inherit a relationship with Russia fraught with more tension than at any point since the Cold War. Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine sparked fear that ...
By Julianne Smith & Adam Twardowski
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#Virtual Caliphate
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Many policymakers, intelligence analysts, and academics believe expelling the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from Mosul and Raqqah is the key to t...
By General Joseph L. Votel, LTC Christina Bembenek, Charles Hans, Jeffery Mouton & Amanda Spencer
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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, Michèle Flournoy, Richard Fontaine, James P. Rubin, Stephen J. Hadley, Dr. Robert Kagan & Robert Zoellick
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Numbers game: How the Air Force is following the Army and Navy’s bad example
On Sept. 17, Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson stole a page from the Army and the Navy, announcing that the Air Force needed to grow its number of operational squadron...
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The Pentagon must modernize before it’s too late
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Numbers game: How the Air Force is following the Army and Navy’s bad example
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China and America May Be Forging a New Economic Order
“New U.S.-China Tariffs Raise Fears of an Economic Cold War,” proclaimed a Washington Post headline. The New York Times alleged that the United States and China were already “...
By Abigail Grace
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By Dr. Daniel Kliman & Abigail Grace
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Center for New American Security’s Heartland Security Report
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China and America May Be Forging a New Economic Order
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Veterans: Answering the call to serve
In August, the veteran unemployment rate was 3.8 percent – the same as that for non-veterans – continuing a multi-year positive trend. The same month, Google announced that it...
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Veterans: Answering the call to serve
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Moving think tanks beyond the Beltway
For the next two months, as official Washington empties out into the hinterlands, D.C.-based think tanks should do the same. While members of Congress and their staffs switch ...
By Julianne Smith
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GZERO World S2E5: Victoria Nuland and a Lonely Europe
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Julie Smith and Jim Townsend Reflect on the Podcast and Julie’s Upcoming Transition to Berlin
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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Moving think tanks beyond the Beltway
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Turkey's deal with Russia still leaves the US with a dilemma on its Syrian strategy
Turkey just scored a big win in Syria that could save tens of thousands of lives and avert what would have been the worst humanitarian crisis of an already terrible war, but t...
By Nicholas Heras
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Iran Hawks Could Make a Bad Situation Worse
By Eric Brewer & Dr. Ariane Tabatabai
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Turkey and the United States Should Work Together to Avert Disaster in Idlib
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Turkey's deal with Russia still leaves the US with a dilemma on its Syrian strategy
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Testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Watch the full testimony online here....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Daleep Singh
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Tightening Sanctions on Russia
By Peter Harrell & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Is the U.S. Using Sanctions Too Aggressively?
By Peter Harrell
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Testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Quantum Hegemony? China’s Ambitions and the Challenge to U.S. Innovation Leadership
Paul Scharre, Director and Senior Fellow of the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, hosts a discussion with Technology and National Security Adjunct Fellow Elsa ...
By Elsa B. Kania & Paul Scharre
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Will WWIII Be Fought By Robots?
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A Million Mistakes a Second
By Paul Scharre
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Quantum Hegemony? China’s Ambitions and the Challenge to U.S. Innovation Leadership
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Why Drones Are Still the Future of War
In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald argue, based on their research interviewing U.S. ground troops, that troops prefer close air suppo...
By Paul Scharre
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U.S. alliances need to reflect needs of modern warfare, experts say
By Paul Scharre
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Military Not Ready for the Next Larger War, Experts Say
By Paul Scharre
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Why Drones Are Still the Future of War
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Write ‘what is absolutely true in your eyes,’ says best-selling author Robert Kaplan
Our September pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This,” is “Earning the Rockies” by Robert D. Kaplan. Become a member of the book club by joining ou...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Admiral James Stavridis and Richard Fontaine: Extended Missions: The American Military Abroad
By Richard Fontaine & James Stavridis
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The September pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Robert D. Kaplan's ‘Earning the Rockies’
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Write ‘what is absolutely true in your eyes,’ says best-selling author Robert Kaplan
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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
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Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class
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A Woman? No Way!
Who would have known that my commissioning in the U.S. Army would lead me to such an unthinkable assignment? I arrived in the Middle East as a country engagement officer. Alth...
By Asha Castleberry
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The (Mostly) Good News on Women in Combat
By Andrew Swick & Emma Moore
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Women In National Security: Morgan Ortagus and Samantha Vinograd
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Samantha Vinograd & Morgan Ortagus
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A Woman? No Way!
