Featured Reports
Stuck in the Cul-de-Sac
Carlton Haelig, Philip Sheers | October 21, 2025
Countering the Digital Silk Road
Vivek Chilukuri, Ruby Scanlon | October 15, 2025
Tipping the Scales
Caleb Withers | September 23, 2025
Countering the Swarm
Stacie Pettyjohn, Molly Campbell | September 10, 2025
Reports
Stuck in the Cul-de-Sac
For more than a decade, the United States has sought to modernize its military to deter China, but it has become stuck in a developmental cul-de-sac that has allowed China to ...
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Countering the Digital Silk Road
The year 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the Digital Silk Road (DSR), China’s effort to strengthen its global ties and influence through technology. In the decade since the...
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Tipping the Scales
This report examines how emerging AI capabilities could disrupt the cyber offense-defense balance....
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Countering the Swarm
After decades of air dominance and a near monopoly on precision strike, the United States now faces a dramatically different, more hostile world as the proliferation of cheap ...
AMERICA'S EDGE
The United States faces a rapidly changing global security landscape. Evolving technology, shifting alliances, and emerging threats require America to harness bold, innovative approaches. The CNAS 2025 national security conference, America’s Edge: Forging the Future, will bring together bipartisan leaders, policymakers, and industry to chart a vision for enhancing America’s global edge.
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CNAS 2025 National Security Conference | America's Edge: Forging the Future
Jun 3, 2025
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The First 100 Days
The First 100 Days is a series of recommendations from CNAS experts. The recommendations span the most pressing issues that will test the administration, including competition...
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Global Swing States and the New Great Power Competition
International politics is undergoing a period of rapid, significant change. China and Russia are working together more closely and alongside Iran and North Korea...
Press
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CNAS Welcomes Elisa Ewers as Director of Middle East Security Program
Washington, January 21, 2026 — The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is delighted to welcome Elisa Ewers as senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Prog...
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Greenland Escalation Risks a Different Kind of Trade War. How It Could Play Out.
In The News
The tariff tit-for-tat is back, this time between the U.S. and Europe as President Donald Trump amps up the pressure on the continent in his effort to annex Greenland, a terri...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Harder to Enter, Costlier to Stay: What the U.S. Immigration Reset Means for You
In The News
If you’re planning a US holiday, sending a child to study there, relocating talent, or exploring investor residency, 2026 demands closer attention than ever. The Trump adminis...
By Annie Pforzheimer
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America’s Defense Industry Is in Trouble, with No Plan to Fix It
In The News
It’s hard to dispute that Donald Trump has a knack for identifying problems....
By Becca Wasser
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Edward Fishman on Economic Chokepoints
In The News
Edward Fishman is a CNAS adjunct senior fellow and Senior Fellow and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center on Geoeconomic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations. He is al...
By Edward Fishman
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Are Defense Firms Showering Their Shareholders with Too Much Money?
In early January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening bans on defense contractors paying dividends or buying their stock back. CNAS program director S...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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America’s Defense Industry Is in Trouble, with No Plan to Fix It
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea BarriersBy Tom Shugart
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Are Defense Firms Showering Their Shareholders with Too Much Money?
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Harder to Enter, Costlier to Stay: What the U.S. Immigration Reset Means for You
If you’re planning a US holiday, sending a child to study there, relocating talent, or exploring investor residency, 2026 demands closer attention than ever. The Trump adminis...
By Annie Pforzheimer
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea BarriersBy Tom Shugart
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America Must Salvage Its Relationship With India
By Richard Fontaine & Lisa Curtis
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Harder to Enter, Costlier to Stay: What the U.S. Immigration Reset Means for You
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National Security Human Capital Program
VA Awards Disability Benefits Using Criteria from 80 Years Ago, Federal Watchdog FindsA federal watchdog warned lawmakers that the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to fully revise the 80-year-old criteria for awarding disability payments or risk miscalculat...
By Kyleanne Hunter
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National Security Human Capital Program
Dot Gov ’26: The Departments of Defense and Veteran AffairsBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program
The Military Is Running Out of Teenagers to Recruit — And Old-School Methods to Reach Them Are FailingBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Capitol Hill Unhappy with Trump’s Tariff Threat on Countries Supporting Greenland
CNAS adjunct senior fellow and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO Policy Jim Townsend joined CTV News to discuss President Donal Trump's recent...
By Jim Townsend
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Europe's Defense Dilemma
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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The Donroe Doctrine? Venezuela, Greenland, and America's New Agenda
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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Capitol Hill Unhappy with Trump’s Tariff Threat on Countries Supporting Greenland
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CNAS Welcomes Elisa Ewers as Director of Middle East Security Program
Washington, January 21, 2026 — The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is delighted to welcome Elisa Ewers as senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Prog...
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U.S. General Says Iran Is in a ‘Bad Place’ as Protesters ‘Rise Up’
By Philip Breedlove
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What’s Behind the Protests in Iran?
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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CNAS Welcomes Elisa Ewers as Director of Middle East Security Program
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Greenland Escalation Risks a Different Kind of Trade War. How It Could Play Out.
The tariff tit-for-tat is back, this time between the U.S. and Europe as President Donald Trump amps up the pressure on the continent in his effort to annex Greenland, a terri...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Washington’s New China Tech Strategy
By Emily Kilcrease
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How America Can Stop Getting Played by China
By Liza Tobin
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Greenland Escalation Risks a Different Kind of Trade War. How It Could Play Out.
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Insights | Unpacking the H200 Export PolicyAI Chips for China With two new policies, President Donald Trump has implemented his pledge to allow sales of NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips to China in exchange for a quarter of the ...
By Janet Egan & James Sanders
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
AI and Policy, Both Foreign and DomesticBy Janet Egan
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Technology & National Security
Quantum Computing’s Industrial ChallengeBy Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Legal Questions Remain After U.S. Capture of MaduroCNAS senior fellow and general counsel Carrie Cordero joined CNN to discuss the arrest and capture of Venezuelan leader Maduro, legal issues surrounding the military campaign ...
By Carrie Cordero
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Nicolás Maduro Indictment ImplicationsBy Carrie Cordero
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
U.S. Intervention in VenezuelaBy Carrie Cordero
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How the U.S. and South Africa Could Use the G20 to Plot a Path Forward
In the contest for the future of global order, South Africa’s choices will have a disproportionate impact on the outcome....
By Richard Fontaine & Gibbs McKinley
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Losing the Swing States
By Richard Fontaine & Gibbs McKinley
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How the U.S. and South Africa Could Use the G20 to Plot a Path Forward
