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The AGI Moment
Paul Scharre | September 21, 2026
Drones, Missiles, and the U.S. Munitions Shortage
Philip Sheers, Stacie Pettyjohn | September 18, 2026
Redrawing the Map
Katherine L. Kuzminski | September 15, 2026
Superpowers and AGI
Jacob Stokes | August 27, 2026
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The AGI Moment
Introduction The age of AI is upon us. What that means is not yet clear. As general-purpose AI capabilities continue to march toward human-level performance across a range of ...
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Drones, Missiles, and the U.S. Munitions Shortage
Executive Summary Drones have exploded in popularity since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. There is a growing view that inexpensive drones—“affordable mass”—a...
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Redrawing the Map
Executive Summary The United States is home to 17.3 million veterans in 2026—a population that has declined from 21.0 million in 2015, as older, conscription-era veterans have...
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Superpowers and AGI
Executive Summary Artificial intelligence (AI) systems continue to progress at a steady pace. This trend has fed forecasts that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—generally...
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CNAS Insights | U.S.-China AI Agreements Need Verification, Not Trust
The upcoming Trump-Xi summit is likely to disappoint the leaders of top AI labs that have recently called for urgent, coordinated pacing of frontier AI progress. While agreeme...
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CNAS Insights | Strategic Stability with China Will Come at a Cost
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping will meet this week for the latest high-stakes summit. A core focus will be extending a trade truce set to...
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CNAS Insights | America Must Expand AI Export Controls Amid Talks with China
The path forward is to lengthen the United States’ AI lead by expanding, not weakening, technology protections, starting with closing three priority gaps: remote access, adver...
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'They genuinely believe it': Australian AI researcher on fears in Silicon ValleyI do not think it is feasible for Australia to develop its own sovereign capabilities from scratch. One researcher estimated it would cost around $500 billion to do this to ev...
By Janet Egan
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Missing From the Trump-Xi State Dinner: China’s Business Leaders
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No prominent Chinese chief executives attended Thursday night’s state dinner at the White House. “It’s a rather depressing marker of how bad the relationship has gotten,” said...
By Emily Kilcrease
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In The News
Technology & National Security
OpenAI Medicare Breach ‘Tip of the Iceberg’Janet Egan, an AI policy expert and adjunct senior fellow at the Centre for a New American Security, said the incidents were “emblematic of a general trend in AI” where capabi...
By Janet Egan
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Technology & National Security
America’s AI push in Southeast Asia faces a China problemVivek Chilukuri, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a former Capitol Hill staffer, said there’s “strong bipartisan consensus in Congress that we sho...
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Technology & National Security
There Is No A.I. “Race”Are these scenarios realistic? Jack Shanahan, a former director of an early Department of Defense A.I. initiative called Project Maven, told me that many of the projects he ov...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Sharper | Securing America’s Defense Industrial Base
Six months of war with Iran has depleted America’s munitions capacity, leaving stockpiles of interceptors and precision weapons dangerously low and demand above the replacemen...
By Cadence Barker & Charles Horn
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Bloomberg Economics' Becca Wasser and Dina Esfandiary Talk Iran Conflict
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Big Take: The Real Costs of the U.S. Iran Blockade
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Sharper | Securing America’s Defense Industrial Base
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Japan’s New CIA Could Be Takaichi’s Trump Card
Intelligence reform may generate fewer headlines than higher defense spending, new missiles, or arms deals, but it represents another consequential way Tokyo is assuming great...
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Japan’s New CIA Could Be Takaichi’s Trump Card
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Big Questions—And Key Logistical Details—Loom Ahead of China-U.S. Summit
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Japan’s New CIA Could Be Takaichi’s Trump Card
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VA Touts Faster Disability Claims, but Advocates Still See Gaps in Veteran CareKyleanne Hunter, the CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, also applauded VA’s progress in getti...
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Redrawing the MapBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital
Hegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder for Women in Combat Roles. Most Female Marines Are PassingBy Kyleanne Hunter
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The Russia Stability Tracker
In February 2023—one year into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine—the Center for a New American Security convened a group of leading U.S. experts on Putin’s Rus...
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Russian Hybrid Attacks and Europe's Response
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Sep 25, ’26 Washington Roundtable
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The Russia Stability Tracker
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The Canadian Tycoon Accused of Helping Russia’s ‘War Machine’
“This really is a case study of gaps in enforcement and the limits of compliance extraterritorially,” said Alex Zerden, a former U.S. Treasury official and adjunct senior fell...
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25 Years After 9/11, Iraq’s Dream Remains Unfulfilled
By Hamzeh Hadad
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Iran Turns to Crypto to Shore Up Economy
By Eitan Danon
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The Canadian Tycoon Accused of Helping Russia’s ‘War Machine’
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Missing From the Trump-Xi State Dinner: China’s Business Leaders
No prominent Chinese chief executives attended Thursday night’s state dinner at the White House. “It’s a rather depressing marker of how bad the relationship has gotten,” said...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Former NSC China Director on Trump-Xi Summit
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China’s Broken Economy with Logan Wright
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Missing From the Trump-Xi State Dinner: China’s Business Leaders
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Technology & National Security
'They genuinely believe it': Australian AI researcher on fears in Silicon ValleyI do not think it is feasible for Australia to develop its own sovereign capabilities from scratch. One researcher estimated it would cost around $500 billion to do this to ev...
By Janet Egan
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Technology & National Security
OpenAI Medicare Breach ‘Tip of the Iceberg’By Janet Egan
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Technology & National Security
America’s AI push in Southeast Asia faces a China problemBy Vivek Chilukuri
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U.S. Strikes Iranian Oil Tankers in Response to Tehran’s Attacks on Navy Ships
While civilian ships aren’t typically lawful targets, they lose their protected status if they contribute to an adversary’s military action and if destroying them offers a def...
By Mark Nevitt
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Shutdown Reform’s Constitutional Blind Spot: The Two-Year Clause
By Mark Nevitt
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Women’s Share of Top Military Promotions Falls as Hegseth Blocks Nominees
By Mark Nevitt
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U.S. Strikes Iranian Oil Tankers in Response to Tehran’s Attacks on Navy Ships
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CNAS Insights | New Rules for U.S. Foreign Aid
Join us for the CNAS 2026 National Security Conference: New Rules, on Thursday, June 11!...
By Gibbs McKinley
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Transatlantic Security / Global Swing States
Beyond the SahelBy Kate Johnston, Valeria Allende & Isabel Dlabach
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CNAS Insights | Why the “Swing States” Approach Is Right for Africa
By Gibbs McKinley
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CNAS Insights | New Rules for U.S. Foreign Aid
