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From Production Lines to Front Lines
Becca Wasser, Philip Sheers | April 03, 2025
Assessing China’s Nuclear Decision-Making
Jacob Stokes | March 18, 2025
Promethean Rivalry
Bill Drexel | April 22, 2025
Countering the Digital Silk Road: Brazil
Ruby Scanlon, Bill Drexel | April 24, 2025
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 ...
Technology & National Security
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...
Technology & National Security
Countering the Digital Silk Road: Brazil
Project Overview This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Digital Silk Road (DSR), China’s ambitious initiative to shape critical digital infrastructure around the world to...
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.
CNAS 2025 National Security Conference | America's Edge: Forging the Future
Jun 3, 2025
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...
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Airmen Given Just Days to Reenlist to Claim Bonus for High-Skill Jobs
In The News
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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New CNAS Report Warns U.S. Aid Cuts Could Undermine Democracy in South Asia and Fuel Chinese Influence
Press Release
Washington, May 15, 2025 — Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, Democracy in South Asia Amid U.S. Aid Cuts: What’s at Stake for Great Po...
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Trump’s Big Syria Announcement Surprised His Own Sanctions Officials
In The News
When US President Donald Trump announced in Saudi Arabia on May 13 that he would lift all sanctions on Syria, the decision – which will boost a country devastated by 13 years ...
By Edward Fishman
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Trump Wants a Twin-Engined F-35. Experts Say It’s ‘Not Feasible.’
In The News
In keeping with his penchant for shocking the defense industry, President Donald Trump today seemingly revealed plans to develop a twin-engine version of the F-35 Joint Strike...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Drones Are Transforming South Asian Warfare
In The News
The recent military confrontation between India and Pakistan, which involved the worst fighting between the regional rivals in decades, marked the first time the two nuclear p...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Drones Are Transforming South Asian Warfare
The recent military confrontation between India and Pakistan, which involved the worst fighting between the regional rivals in decades, marked the first time the two nuclear p...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Wants a Twin-Engined F-35. Experts Say It’s ‘Not Feasible.’
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Pentagon Rushing to Find ‘Low-Collateral’ Tech to Counter Hostile Drones
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Drones Are Transforming South Asian Warfare
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Democracy in South Asia amid U.S. Aid Cuts
The practice of democratic governance and the increased number of people across the world participating in national elections are positive trends that will help ensure governm...
By Lisa Curtis, Kareen Hart & Keerthi Martyn
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Drones Are Transforming South Asian Warfare
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Lessons from the U.S.-China Trade War
By Edward Fishman
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Democracy in South Asia amid U.S. Aid Cuts
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Airmen Given Just Days to Reenlist to Claim Bonus for High-Skill Jobs
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Marco Rubio Working on Major Changes to National Security Council
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Air Force Delay on Separation and Retirement Orders Isn’t ‘Stop Loss,’ Defense Official Says
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Airmen Given Just Days to Reenlist to Claim Bonus for High-Skill Jobs
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What Ukraine and Russia are Negotiating in Turkey
Direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul this week – the first since March 2022 – have got off to a shaky start. Putin’s no-show meant President Zelenskyy remained ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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Putin Desperate to Maintain Fractured Relationship with Trump | Jim Townsend
By Jim Townsend
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Canada and Carney’s New American Approach
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Elizabeth Anderson
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What Ukraine and Russia are Negotiating in Turkey
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Ziemba: U.S. Has To Be Ready To Accept Mideast Investments
US President Donald Trump has secured $200 billion in deals during a visit to the United Arab Emirates, according to the White House, as he wraps up his visit to the Middle Ea...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Inks $600 Bn Deal In Saudi Arabia | Musk, Blackrock CEO Flank Trump In Gulf Visit
By Daniel Silverberg
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Trump’s Big Syria Announcement Surprised His Own Sanctions Officials
By Edward Fishman
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Ziemba: U.S. Has To Be Ready To Accept Mideast Investments
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Ziemba: U.S. Has To Be Ready To Accept Mideast Investments
US President Donald Trump has secured $200 billion in deals during a visit to the United Arab Emirates, according to the White House, as he wraps up his visit to the Middle Ea...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Inks $600 Bn Deal In Saudi Arabia | Musk, Blackrock CEO Flank Trump In Gulf Visit
By Daniel Silverberg
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Lessons from the U.S.-China Trade War
By Edward Fishman
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Ziemba: U.S. Has To Be Ready To Accept Mideast Investments
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Trump is Rewriting How the U.S. Treats AI Chip Exports—and the Stakes Are Enormous
This week, President Trump traveled to the Middle East on a business and diplomacy mission, during which he greenlit the sale of hundreds of thousands of American-made AI chip...
By Janet Egan
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Saudi Arabia Wants to Build Its Post-Oil Future with Massive AI Data Centers — Trump and U.S. Tech Have Big Incentives to Oblige
By Janet Egan
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Is AI the Future of America’s Foreign Policy? Some Experts Think So
By Andrew Moore
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Trump is Rewriting How the U.S. Treats AI Chip Exports—and the Stakes Are Enormous
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Better Positioning the National Guard for 21st-Century Engagements
Carrie F. Cordero is the Robert M. Gates senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) where she leads the Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative. The National Gu...
By Carrie Cordero
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Congress Must Clarify the National Guard’s Section 502 Legal Authorities
By Mark Nevitt
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Sharper: Trump's First 100 Days
By Charles Horn
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Better Positioning the National Guard for 21st-Century Engagements
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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
