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CNAS Welcomes Anna Saito Carson as Vice President of Development
November 13, 2018
Energy, Economics, & Security
The Financing of WMD Proliferation
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is a critical threat facing the international community. Numerous United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) place b...
Technology & National Security
Human Performance Enhancement
Executive Summary No attributes are more foundational to success in combat than the physical and cognitive performance of warfighters. Technological advantage has always playe...
Asia-Pacific Security
At APEC, Pence Has Unique Opportunity to Advance U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy
This is a make or break week for the Trump administration’s economic approach to Asia. A year ago at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) – the region’s premier ...
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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 Patrick M. Cronin, 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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Anna Wieslander on Swedish Elections and the Nordic View of European Defense
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UK Director of International Security Policy on the US-UK Relationship and a Changing NATO
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Quantum Hegemony? China’s Ambitions and the Challenge to U.S. Innovation Leadership
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David Cohen talks with Michael Morell on "Intelligence Matters" podcast
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U.S. military edge has eroded to ‘a dangerous degree,’ study for Congress finds
The United States has lost its military edge to a dangerous degree and could potentially lose a war against China or Russia, according to a report released Wednesday by a bipa...
By Elbridge Colby
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Susanna V. Blume on Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast
By Susanna V. Blume
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Pentagon braces for leaner Mideast war budget after Democrats win House
By Susanna V. Blume
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U.S. military edge has eroded to ‘a dangerous degree,’ study for Congress finds
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At APEC, Pence Has Unique Opportunity to Advance U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy
This is a make or break week for the Trump administration’s economic approach to Asia. A year ago at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) – the region’s premier ...
By Daniel Kliman
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Kim Jong Un is doing what he said he would
By Duyeon Kim
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China’s military power could match America’s by 2050
By Abigail Grace
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At APEC, Pence Has Unique Opportunity to Advance U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy
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Here's what the US Army is doing to overcome recruitment challenges in Indiana, Midwest
Uncle Sam wants young people in the Midwest. But they don’t seem to want Uncle Sam. The U.S. Army, the oldest and largest branch of the nation’s military, has a problem that ...
By Emma Moore
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Trump rankles veterans with comments about PTSD and California shooter
By Kayla M. Williams
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The Mission Creep of Sending Troops To The US-Mexico Border
By Emma Moore
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Here's what the US Army is doing to overcome recruitment challenges in Indiana, Midwest
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LtGen Jan Broeks and LtGen Esa Pulkkinen on EU/NATO Cooperation
LtGen Jan Broeks, DG of the NATO International Military Staff, and LtGen Esa Pulkkinen, DG of the EU Military Staff, sat down with Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend t...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Jan Broeks & Esa Pulkkinen
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CNAS Experts: In Paris, Trump Should Mend Relations with Europe to Counterbalance China
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Rachel Rizzo
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The United States' Greatest Strength Over Russia and China is Its Alliance with Europe
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Julianne Smith
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LtGen Jan Broeks and LtGen Esa Pulkkinen on EU/NATO Cooperation
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Four killed in armed attack on Manbij security forces
The media office of the Manbij Internal Security Forces on Tuesday said armed ‘gangs,’ at just past midnight on Tuesday, attacked the al-Shuweiha checkpoint on the outskirts o...
By Nicholas Heras
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Turkey threatens Syria's Kurds: A headache for the US?
By Nicholas Heras
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Kurdish SDF caught between Turkish, US aims in Syria
By Nicholas Heras
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Four killed in armed attack on Manbij security forces
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Iran And Trading Partners Will Find Ways To Skirt Sanctions, Analysts Say
The Trump administration hopes the sweeping sanctions it has imposed on Iran's oil, shipping and banking industries will cripple its economy and force it to negotiate a new nu...
By Peter Harrell & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Trump Has Only Sticks, No Carrots
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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U.S. sanctions take toll on the ill in Iran as medicine becomes scarce
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Iran And Trading Partners Will Find Ways To Skirt Sanctions, Analysts Say
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China's 'Civil-Military Fusion' Has Washington Worried
The two men posing for photographs in a Nanjing conference room could not have more different backgrounds. On one side was Mao Yongqing, head of the 28th Research Institute of...
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Human Performance
Enhancement
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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China's application of AI should be a Sputnik moment for the U.S. But will it be?
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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China's 'Civil-Military Fusion' Has Washington Worried
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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
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Resisting Magical Thinking: Drones and National Security
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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What the Interwar Years Say About the US Army’s Newest Force Concept
By Lauren Fish
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Loren DeJonge Schulman on Drones
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Amb. Nuland on N. Korea: The U.S. 'needs to get back into real diplomacy'
Amb. Victoria Nuland, CEO of the Center for a New American Security and former Assistant Secretary of State, joins Ali Velshi to discuss reports that North Korea is moving ahe...
By Victoria Nuland
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US midterm elections 2018: Democrats abroad in the Indo-Pacific
By Richard Fontaine
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Four Ways Foreign Policy Could Change, and One Way It Won’t
By Richard Fontaine
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Amb. Nuland on N. Korea: The U.S. 'needs to get back into real diplomacy'
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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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With Haley’s departure, senior Trump ranks feature even fewer women and minorities
As an Indian American woman, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has occupied an unusual position in an administration whose broad lack of diversity at the highest levels of the feder...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The Messy Reality Inside the Pentagon, Captured in Fiction
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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A Woman? No Way!
By Asha Castleberry
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With Haley’s departure, senior Trump ranks feature even fewer women and minorities
