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Safe and Effective
Josh Wallin | March 13, 2025
The First 100 Days
Richard Fontaine, Geoffrey Gertz, Emily Kilcrease, Janet Egan, Paul Scharre, Vivek Chilukuri, Sam Howell, Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante, Stacie Pettyjohn, Carlton Haelig, Becca Wasser, Josh Wallin, Jacob Stokes, Lisa Curtis, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Carrie Cordero, Jonathan Lord, Jim Townsend | January 20, 2025
From Production Lines to Front Lines
Becca Wasser, Philip Sheers | April 03, 2025
Assessing China’s Nuclear Decision-Making
Jacob Stokes | March 18, 2025
Defense
Safe and Effective
The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy to change the character of war inches closer to reality...
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...
Defense
From Production Lines to Front Lines
Executive Summary The U.S. defense industrial base (DIB) is struggling to meet the demands of the current strategic environment—let alone prepare for a potential conflict agai...
Indo-Pacific Security
Assessing China’s Nuclear Decision-Making
China’s rapid nuclear buildup is raising questions about how the country makes decisions related to nuclear weapons. This policy brief analyzes that trend by presenting three ...
AMERICA'S EDGE
Experts from the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) issued their recommendations for The First 100 Days, a blueprint to help the new administration navigate national security challenges from day one.
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...
Set the Tone, Establish Policy, Hire Personnel—And Prepare for Crisis
President Donald Trump enters office at a critical moment and faces multiple crises...
CNAS 2025 National Security Conference | America's Edge: Forging the Future
Save the DateJune 3, 2025 The United States faces a rapidly changing global security landscape. Evolving technology, shifting alliances, and emerging threats require America t...
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China’s Military Spending Has Surged. So Have the Purges
In The News
The grey-painted vessels were a sight to behold. Out of the fog of a late March morning in southern China’s Guangdong province, three giant metal barges, each one larger than ...
By Tom Shugart
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New CNAS Report on the World-Altering Stakes of U.S.-China AI Competition
Press Release
Washington, April 22, 2025 – Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, Promethean Rivalry: The World-Altering Stakes of Sino-American AI Comp...
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“Turning the Presidency into Performance Art”: Sanctions Expert on What Trump Confuses About Tariffs
In The News
With all its spectacle and chaos, Donald Trump’s shock and awe strategy is both domestic and global. Domestically, Trump and his agents are targeting the American government a...
By Edward Fishman
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Tech Industry Fears Donald Trump’s Trade War Will Hamper U.S. AI ‘Dominance’
In The News
Donald Trump’s global tariff regime is endangering his ambitions of encouraging domestic chip production while hampering US goals of dominating the race to develop world-beati...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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How Much of a Threat Are Chinese Hypersonic Missiles to U.S. Navy Ships and Sailors?
In The News
China has “the world’s leading hypersonic missile arsenal” that can threaten U.S. Navy ships, according to the Defense Department’s most recent report on Chinese military powe...
By Tom Shugart
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China’s Military Spending Has Surged. So Have the Purges
The grey-painted vessels were a sight to behold. Out of the fog of a late March morning in southern China’s Guangdong province, three giant metal barges, each one larger than ...
By Tom Shugart
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How Much of a Threat Are Chinese Hypersonic Missiles to U.S. Navy Ships and Sailors?
By Tom Shugart
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The Department of Defense’s Breakthrough Nuclear Moment Risks Slipping Away
By Will Rogers
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China’s Military Spending Has Surged. So Have the Purges
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China’s Military Spending Has Surged. So Have the Purges
The grey-painted vessels were a sight to behold. Out of the fog of a late March morning in southern China’s Guangdong province, three giant metal barges, each one larger than ...
By Tom Shugart
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Ziemba: Struck By Energy Deal Between India & Saudi Arabia
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump’s Crackdown on Foreign Students Is a Gift to China
By Jordan Schneider
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China’s Military Spending Has Surged. So Have the Purges
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The Department of Defense’s Breakthrough Nuclear Moment Risks Slipping Away
Unless they act, the Department of Defense’s breakthrough nuclear moment may vanish before it really happens....
By Will Rogers
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Sharper: National Security Human Capital
By Charles Horn & Taren Sylvester
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Trump Seeks Record Military Budget, but the Search Is On for Spending Cuts, Too
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Department of Defense’s Breakthrough Nuclear Moment Risks Slipping Away
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Trump ‘Humiliated’ as Putin Sends Clear Message That He Doesn’t Care About US
"Putin is not playing ball." Putin's Palm Sunday attack on Sumy is "embarrassing for the White House" as it comes just days after Steve Witkoff met with the Kremlin, says adju...
By Jim Townsend
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The Hidden Past and Uncertain Future of the U.S. and Ukraine with Celeste Wallander
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Celeste Wallander
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South Sudan’s Opposition in Crisis over Leadership Change
By Kate Johnston
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Trump ‘Humiliated’ as Putin Sends Clear Message That He Doesn’t Care About US
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CNAS Middle East Program Director Jonathan Lord to Join Office of Senator Angela Alsobrooks as National Security Advisor
Washington, April 17, 2025 — The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announces that Jonathan Lord, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program, will j...
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U.S. Airstrikes Alone Can’t Dislodge the Houthis
By Eitan Danon
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China Backs Iran in Nuclear Talks, Slams ‘Threat of Force’ From the West
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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CNAS Middle East Program Director Jonathan Lord to Join Office of Senator Angela Alsobrooks as National Security Advisor
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Ziemba: Struck By Energy Deal Between India & Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia and India have agreed to deepen energy ties and cooperate more closely on tourism and technology as the countries seek to strengthen relations at a time of turbul...
By Rachel Ziemba
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What is President Trump’s Economic Plan?
By Emily Kilcrease
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“Turning the Presidency into Performance Art”: Sanctions Expert on What Trump Confuses About Tariffs
By Edward Fishman
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Ziemba: Struck By Energy Deal Between India & Saudi Arabia
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Promethean Rivalry
Executive Summary Just as nuclear weapons revolutionized 20th-century geopolitics, artificial intelligence (AI) is primed to transform 21st-century power dynamics—with world l...
By Bill Drexel
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Trump’s Crackdown on Foreign Students Is a Gift to China
By Jordan Schneider
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America Can Still Lose the AI Race
By Keegan McBride
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Promethean Rivalry
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Sharper: Trump's First 100 Days
Donald Trump takes office in a complex and volatile global environment. Rising tensions with China, the continued war in Ukraine, and instability in the Middle East all pose s...
By Charles Horn
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Coordinate the Interagency to Counter Malign Foreign Influence
By Carrie Cordero
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The Clock Is Ticking on TikTok with Potential Ban Coming This Weekend
By Carrie Cordero
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Sharper: Trump's First 100 Days
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Developing Leaders to Promote Gender Integration
Diversity of lived experiences results in stronger leaders....
By Dr. Jeannette Gaudry Haynie & Dr. Kyleanne Hunter
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Sharper: America's National Security Workforce
By Emma Moore, Chris Estep & Cole Stevens
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Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update
By Emma Moore
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Developing Leaders to Promote Gender Integration
