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Countering Coercion
Lisa Curtis, Nilanthi Samaranayake | March 29, 2024
Forging a New Era of U.S.-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Cooperation
Lisa Curtis, Evan Wright, Hannah Kelley | March 21, 2024
Future-Proofing Frontier AI Regulation
Paul Scharre | March 13, 2024
Evolution Not Revolution
Stacie Pettyjohn | February 08, 2024
Indo-Pacific Security
Countering Coercion
The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC or China) has been engaging in gray zone activity—coercive behavior that is aimed at changing the status quo but that is below a threshol...
Indo-Pacific Security
Forging a New Era of U.S.-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Cooperation
Executive Summary In August 2023, the leaders of Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and the United States met for an unprecedented in-person summit at Camp David to expand an...
Technology & National Security
Future-Proofing Frontier AI Regulation
Executive Summary Policymakers should prepare for a world of significantly more powerful AI systems over the next decade. These developments could occur without fundamental b...
Defense
Evolution Not Revolution
This report concludes that drones have transformed the battlefield in the war in Ukraine, but in an evolutionary rather than revolutionary fashion. While tactical innovation a...
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CNAS Launches Make Room Mentorship Program
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CNAS Responds: Biden-Kishida Meeting
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Trump will see nuclear subs as a ‘win-win’, US foreign policy guru predicts
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One of America’s leading foreign policy thinkers has played down fears that Donald Trump could discard the AUKUS pact or seek revenge against Australian ambassador Kevin Rudd ...
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Montana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015
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The Sheehy campaign did not respond to the ranger’s contention that he inspected the weapon or saw a missing bullet but noted the ranger did not mention a missing bullet in hi...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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NATO chief’s final battle: Protecting Ukraine from Trump, US
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“This is not just Trump-proofing, but U.S.-proofing in some ways,” said Jim Townsend, an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security and a former senior ...
By Jim Townsend
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Ukrainian president has stark new warning as war rages on
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warns that Ukraine will lose the war with Russia without US assistance. Franz-Stefan Gady of CNAS explains why US military aid is crucia...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Trump will see nuclear subs as a ‘win-win’, US foreign policy guru predicts
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Stock buybacks in defense: What drives them, and how that can change?
By Mikhail Grinberg, Jerry McGinn & Lloyd Everhart
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Ukrainian president has stark new warning as war rages on
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CNAS Responds: Biden-Kishida Meeting
More Insights from the Indo-Pacific Security Program:...
By Lisa Curtis, Jacob Stokes & Evan Wright
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Japan will probably be a member of AUKUS Pillar 2 'before too long,' Richard Fontaine says
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Trump will see nuclear subs as a ‘win-win’, US foreign policy guru predicts
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CNAS Responds: Biden-Kishida Meeting
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Montana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015
The Sheehy campaign did not respond to the ranger’s contention that he inspected the weapon or saw a missing bullet but noted the ranger did not mention a missing bullet in hi...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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New analysis of Air Force suicides explores contributing factors
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Navy demoted Ronny Jackson after probe into White House behavior
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Montana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015
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NATO chief’s final battle: Protecting Ukraine from Trump, US
“This is not just Trump-proofing, but U.S.-proofing in some ways,” said Jim Townsend, an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security and a former senior ...
By Jim Townsend
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Macron’s Change in Tune and the War in Ukraine
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Tara Varma & Bruno Tertrais
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NATO discusses plans for Europe without the U.S. or Putin
By Jim Townsend
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NATO chief’s final battle: Protecting Ukraine from Trump, US
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Blaise Misztal and Jonathan Lord on U.S. Ceasefire Push in Israel-Hamas War
Blaise Misztal of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America and Jonathan Lord from the Center for a New American Security talked about the new push by the U.S. for...
By Jonathan Lord
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Congress Can Help Ukraine With Confiscated Iranian Weapons
By Jonathan Lord & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Is Iraqi Federalism Under Threat
By Hamzeh Hadad
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Blaise Misztal and Jonathan Lord on U.S. Ceasefire Push in Israel-Hamas War
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Sanctions by The Numbers: The Russian Energy Sector
Since 2014, the United States, the European Union (EU), and other like-minded nations have targeted the Russian energy sector with increasingly significant coercive economic m...
By Jocelyn Trainer, Nicholas Lokker, Kristen Taylor & Uliana Certan
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Mnuchin tried to force a sale of TikTok. Now he’s a possible bidder.
By Emily Kilcrease
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Sharper: Regulating Technology
By Anna Pederson & Julia Arnold
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Sanctions by The Numbers: The Russian Energy Sector
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Response to NTIA Request for Comment: “Dual Use Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models with Widely Available Model Weights”
In February 2024, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued a Request for Comment (RFC) on the implications of “ope...
By Caleb Withers
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Ukraine's AI Drone Gamble
By Samuel Bendett
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Biotech Matters: Great Data Competition and Interoperability with Allies and Partners
By Michelle Holko
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Response to NTIA Request for Comment: “Dual Use Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models with Widely Available Model Weights”
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CNAS Responds: State of the Union 2024
Following President Biden’s address to Congress at the 2024 State of the Union, CNAS experts analyze key policy points from the speech and weigh in on the state of U.S. nation...
By Paul Scharre, Carrie Cordero, Katherine L. Kuzminski & Jonathan Lord
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Americans Need Domestic Unity for Effective Foreign Policy
By Richard Fontaine & Stephen J. Hadley
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CNAS Responds: State of the Union 2024
