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AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security Risks
Bill Drexel, Caleb Withers | August 13, 2024
Over the Brink
Andrew Metrick, Philip Sheers, Stacie Pettyjohn | August 06, 2024
Swarms over the Strait
Stacie Pettyjohn, Hannah Dennis, Molly Campbell | June 20, 2024
Back to the Drafting Board
Katherine L. Kuzminski, Taren Sylvester | June 18, 2024
Technology & National Security
AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security Risks
New AI capabilities may reshape the risk landscape for biothreats in several ways. AI is enabling new capabilities that might, in theory, allow advanced actors to optimize bio...
Defense
Over the Brink
A new era of nuclear deterrence is taking shape in the Indo-Pacific theater. As the People’s Republic of China (PRC) dramatically expands and modernizes its nuclear arsenal, t...
Defense
Swarms over the Strait
The United States is betting that it can out-innovate China and use drones to defeat a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) invasion of Taiwan. Here, the United States should view U...
Military, Veterans & Society
Back to the Drafting Board
While no American president, member of Congress, military leader, or citizen desires the level of conflict requiring a draft, the systems, structures, and processes for implem...
HIGH STAKES
High Stakes: Preparing the Next President is a new election-year initiative to explore the most pressing national security issues that will face the next administration.
Indo-Pacific Security
The Axis of Upheaval
The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
Energy, Economics & Security
Disorderly Conduct
The United States must develop a strong, pragmatic strategy for advancing its economic and security interests within the U.S.-China economic relationship, accounting for the f...
Middle East Security
Virtual Event | Confronting the Axis of Upheaval
Sep 20, 2024
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CNAS Welcomes David McKenzie as Director of Communications
Washington, September 9, 2024 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to welcome David McKenzie as its new Director of Communications. In this role, McKenzi...
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Nippon Steel Left Hunting Next Step as US Takeover Flounders
In The News
A rejection of the deal could damp Japanese companies’ appetite to consider investing in the US, said Akira Igata, a lecturer at the University of Tokyo who specializes in eco...
By Akira Igata
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What the "rocket drone" Palianytsia means for Ukraine
In The News
I don't think this is a game-changing capability," Stacie Pettyjohn, the defense program director at the Center for a New American Security, told me. But if "Ukraine can acqui...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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‘Flamethrower drones’ shower Ukraine battlefield with molten thermite
In The News
The footage from Ukraine marks the first known occasion of thermite being deployed by drone to saturate a concealed target, marking a new innovation, according to Samuel Bende...
By Samuel Bendett
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How national security has transformed economic policy
In The News
“There is no set of norms, rules or institutions to guide these interventions, now that we have blown open the barn doors using national security justification,” says Emily Ki...
By Emily Kilcrease
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What the "rocket drone" Palianytsia means for Ukraine
I don't think this is a game-changing capability," Stacie Pettyjohn, the defense program director at the Center for a New American Security, told me. But if "Ukraine can acqui...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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There Are No Magic Beans: Easy Options to Deter China Militarily Do Not Exist
By Tom Shugart
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The Pentagon Is Planning a Drone ‘Hellscape’ to Defend Taiwan
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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What the "rocket drone" Palianytsia means for Ukraine
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Why Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are teaming up
Probably the most surprising thing about the war in Ukraine is that Russia is getting a ton of help. North Korea and Iran are sending it millions of rounds of ammunition and l...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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How to Revamp Chinese Students’ American Education
By Bill Drexel & Grace Gao
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Nippon Steel Left Hunting Next Step as US Takeover Flounders
By Akira Igata
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Why Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are teaming up
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U.S. military must reinforce Guam's crumbling infrastructure
In Guam, one is quickly struck by the juxtaposition of crystal-clear waters with crumbling infrastructure and abandoned cars strewn across the small Pacific island. Following ...
By Taren Sylvester & Evan Wright
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Air Force Families Must Be Prepared for Catastrophic Events Amid Shift to Potential Pacific Conflict, Service Chief Says
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Pentagon updates guidance for protecting military personnel from ‘blast overpressure’
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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U.S. military must reinforce Guam's crumbling infrastructure
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Germany's Historic Elections and What Comes Next
Germany is currently at a critical juncture, balancing numerous challenges both at home and abroad. Just last weekend, populist parties including the far-right AfD scored subs...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Daniela Schwarzer & Christopher Schuetze
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Why Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are teaming up
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Putin Will Never Give Up in Ukraine
By Peter Schroeder
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Germany's Historic Elections and What Comes Next
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Sharper: Axis of Upheaval
A loose but growing coalition between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea demonstrates that their combined strategic interests have the potential to pose significant economic...
By Anna Pederson
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Biden’s Ukraine Strategy Is Missing in Action
By Jonathan Lord
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The United States Should Not Ignore Kuwait’s Democratic Backslide
By Aaron Arnett
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Sharper: Axis of Upheaval
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Geopolitical Doomscrolling
Geoff and Emily talk about the tensions between social media platforms and governments around the world, including Telegram’s troubles in France and X’s spats with Brazil and ...
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz & Carrie Cordero
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Nippon Steel Left Hunting Next Step as US Takeover Flounders
By Akira Igata
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How national security has transformed economic policy
By Emily Kilcrease
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Geopolitical Doomscrolling
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How to Revamp Chinese Students’ American Education
The PRC today operates the largest and most sophisticated propaganda apparatus in human history....
By Bill Drexel & Grace Gao
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‘Flamethrower drones’ shower Ukraine battlefield with molten thermite
By Samuel Bendett
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AI’s impact on elections is being overblown
By Keegan McBride, Felix M. Simon & Sacha Altay
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How to Revamp Chinese Students’ American Education
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Geopolitical Doomscrolling
Geoff and Emily talk about the tensions between social media platforms and governments around the world, including Telegram’s troubles in France and X’s spats with Brazil and ...
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz & Carrie Cordero
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Court to decide who can see secret evidence US has filed against TikTok
By Carrie Cordero
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Trump meets with Orbán, Saudis, Cameron as they prepare for his return
By Richard Fontaine
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Geopolitical Doomscrolling
