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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
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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...
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Expands AI Policy Research with New AppointmentsThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce three new staff hires as it expands its multiyear Artificial Intelligence (AI) Security and Stability Init...
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Venezuela Sends Oil Tankers Under Naval Escort After Trump Declares Maritime Blockade
In The News
According to sources familiar with the matter, several commercial ships departed Venezuela’s eastern coast between the evening of December 16 and the morning of December 17 un...
By Edward Fishman
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U.S. Clamps Down on Investment in Chinese Tech Companies
In The News
President Trump signed into law new powers to screen and restrict U.S. investment in Chinese technology firms, marking the most significant effort yet to police how American c...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Venezuela’s Oil Is a Focus of Trump’s Campaign Against Maduro
In The News
The Nobel Peace Prize winner made her pitch by live video to a business conference in Miami attended by American executives and politicians, including President Trump....
By Edward Fishman
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
Privatizing Galleys Is an ‘Open Question,’ Says Navy’s Top Enlisted LeaderThe Navy is delving into the issue of whether to privatize some of its shore-based dining facilities while considering how such a move might disadvantage the service’s cooks, ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Golden Dome: The Astronomical Cost of Defeating ‘Any Foreign Aerial Attack’
Just days into his second administration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order attempting to do what no other commander in chief has done: build a system for the U...
By Becca Wasser
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Annual Defense Policy Bill Calls for Psychological Study on Drone Operators, Analysts
By Molly Campbell
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Japan Builds up ‘Missile Archipelago’ near Taiwan to Counter China
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Golden Dome: The Astronomical Cost of Defeating ‘Any Foreign Aerial Attack’
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North Korea Reveals Troop Dispatch to Russia amid U.S.-South Korea Policy Talks
North Korea has confirmed for the first time that its troops are operating in Russia, and it is preparing to rewrite its party charter with the possibility of officially namin...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China Hawks Dig in to Bitcoin MiningBy Daniel Remler & David Feith
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U.S. Nvidia Chips to China: What Does That Mean for the AI Race?
By Jacob Stokes
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North Korea Reveals Troop Dispatch to Russia amid U.S.-South Korea Policy Talks
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National Security Human Capital Program
Privatizing Galleys Is an ‘Open Question,’ Says Navy’s Top Enlisted LeaderThe Navy is delving into the issue of whether to privatize some of its shore-based dining facilities while considering how such a move might disadvantage the service’s cooks, ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Short SupplyBy Katherine L. Kuzminski & Taren Sylvester
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National Security Human Capital Program
Military Influencers Are Going Viral, and the Pentagon’s Social Media Rules Aren’t Keeping UpBy Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Ukraine Negotiations: Prospects and Pitfalls of Peace
This week Brussels Sprouts breaks down the latest negotiations on Ukraine. American officials told reporters that they had resolved or closed gaps around 90 percent of their d...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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Can the Global Order Be Saved? Not Without Punishing Russia
By Nicholas Lokker
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CNAS Insights | Russia Is Winning the Battle for Influence in Nigeria
By Kate Johnston
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Ukraine Negotiations: Prospects and Pitfalls of Peace
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Chinese Demand for Oil Remains Key
Oil advanced from its lowest level since 2021 after President Donald Trump ordered a blockade of sanctioned tankers off Venezuela. Rachel Ziemba, CNAS adjunct senior fellow an...
By Rachel Ziemba
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After the Deal
By Delaney Soliday & Shivane Anand
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
The Russia-Iran Partnership: A Geopolitical Balancing ActBy Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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Chinese Demand for Oil Remains Key
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No Grid, No Glory: What History Teaches Us About the Next Major War
This article was originally published on The National Interest.The Trump Administration’s new National Security Strategy goes to great lengths to do what every good strategist...
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U.S. Clamps Down on Investment in Chinese Tech Companies
By Emily Kilcrease
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Breaking the Rare Earths Dependency with Chris Kennedy
By Geoffrey Gertz, Emily Kilcrease & Chris Kennedy
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No Grid, No Glory: What History Teaches Us About the Next Major War
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Insights | The Export Control Loophole Fueling China's Chip ProductionThis week, Reuters reported that China has apparently built a prototype of an extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) system, a highly intricate machine used to produce cutting-...
By Michelle Nie, Autumn Dorsey & Janet Egan
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Technology & National Security
Paul Scharre on How AI Could Transform the Nature of WarBy Paul Scharre
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
The Venezuelan Air Strikes and the Rule of LawAre the Venezuelan Boat Strikes legal? What legal regime governs these actions and what state institutions exercise oversight and accountability? General counsel and senior fe...
By Carrie Cordero
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Pentagon Officials on Capitol Hill to Brief Congress on Double-Tap Boat StrikeBy Carrie Cordero
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Colombian Family Files Legal Complaint on U.S. Strikes in CaribbeanBy 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
- New CNAS Report Argues Six “Global Swing States” Will Shape the New Great Power Competition
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How the U.S. and South Africa Could Use the G20 to Plot a Path Forward
