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• Podcast
  • January 21, 2020
  Working National Security on John McCain’s Presidential Campaign

  Richard Fontaine spent years advising leading figures in American foreign policy, but working for the late Sen. John McCain was unlike anything he had experienced before. Now ...

  By Richard Fontaine & Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • January 21, 2020
  Iran Conflict Could Shift To Cyberspace, Experts Warn

  Hackers linked to Iran are probing American companies for vulnerabilities, cybersecurity researchers and U.S. government officials say. The warnings suggest that the next pha...

  By Kara Frederick

• Commentary
  • The Hill
  • January 21, 2020
  VA leader must demonstrate commitment to ending harassment

  Last week, news outlets reported Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie sent a letter to Rep. Mark Takano (D. Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on ...

  By Kayla M. Williams

• Commentary
  • Defense News
  • January 21, 2020
  Interservice rivalries: A force for good

  It’s no secret that the military services fight hard to protect their shares of the defense budget. Just last week, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday made his case...

  By Susanna V. Blume & Molly Parrish

• Podcast
  • January 17, 2020
  Stories from the Backchannel: Season Two Trailer

  Now more than ever, Americans are interested in the people working behind the scenes on consequential national security decisions. In Season Two of Stories from the Backchanne...

  By Ilan Goldenberg, Richard Fontaine, Susanna V. Blume, Kayla M. Williams, Price B. Floyd, Kurt Campbell & Kara Frederick

• Podcast
  • January 17, 2020
  Rose Gottemoeller on NATO, Arms Control, and a Career in Civil Service

  Rose Gottemoeller, former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, joins Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the the state of the Alliance, arms control, and the challe...

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Rose Gottemoeller

• Transcript
  • January 17, 2020
  Transcript from U.S. AI Strategy Event: “The American AI Century: A Blueprint for Action”

  On January 10, the CNAS Technology and National Security Program hosted a major U.S. AI strategy event. We are pleased to share the transcript of the presentations and panel d...

  By Robert O. Work, Paul Scharre, Martijn Rasser, Megan Lamberth, Ainikki Riikonen, Dr. Lynne Parker & Olivia Zetter

• Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • January 17, 2020
  Putin Is Following the Game Plan of Other Autocrats Before Him

  All of the sudden, the transition of power in Russia has begun. In his annual state of the nation speech on Jan. 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin surprised many by proposi...

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor

• Commentary
  • Defense One
  • January 17, 2020
  Sending Troops Back to the Middle East Won’t Stop Iran

  The Trump administration’s decision to kill Qassam Soleimani is the latest in an escalatory “maximum pressure” Iran strategy that is shifting American foreign policy attention...

  By Chris Dougherty & Kaleigh Thomas

• Podcast
  • January 16, 2020
  The entire Russian government just resigned

  Zack, Jenn, and Alex talk about the recent resignation of Russia’s entire government — yes, you read that right. Guest Andrea Kendall-Taylor helps the team get a hold on...

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor

• Podcast
  • January 16, 2020
  Episode 26 - Paul Scharre

  What are autonomous weapons systems? How are they used in modern warfare? And how do we strengthen international cooperation? In this episode, the Director of the Technology a...

  By Paul Scharre

• Commentary
  • War on the Rocks
  • January 15, 2020
  Defense Strategy for a Post-Trump World

  In a recent piece warning about an emerging arms race in hypersonic missiles, The New York Times quoted Will Roper, the Air Force’s senior acquisition and technology official,...

  By Van Jackson

• Podcast
  • January 15, 2020
  Robots That Kill

  By Paul Scharre

• Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • January 14, 2020
  Trump Has Made Sanctions a Path to Strikes

  U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to kill the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani, the architect of Iran’s political and military influence in the Middle East, and the Irani...

  By Elizabeth Rosenberg & ​Neil Bhatiya

• Commentary
  • War on the Rocks
  • January 14, 2020
  The AI Literacy Gap Hobbling American Officialdom

  Rarely is there as much agreement about the importance of an emerging technology as exists today about artificial intelligence (AI). Rightly or wrongly, a 2019 survey of 1,000...

  By Michael Horowitz & Lauren Kahn

• Commentary
  • Forbes
  • January 14, 2020
  Watch Out for Iranian Info Wars Funded By Crypto

  With tensions rising between Washington and Tehran in the wake of the U.S. killing of Iranian general Qasim Soleimani earlier this month, U.S. officials should expect more Ira...

  By Yaya J. Fanusie

• Commentary
  • CNN
  • January 13, 2020
  Congress has to figure out whether Trump's four embassy claim is real

  The targeted killing of Qasem Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, carried with it significant potential to serve as a catalyst for a br...

  By Carrie Cordero

• Video
  • January 13, 2020
  Experimenting with different approaches to acquisitions

  Susanna Blume, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at the CNAS Defense Program, details how military branches are taking different approaches to procurement, and how each one is...

  By Susanna V. Blume

• Podcast
  • January 10, 2020
  Vladimir Milov on Russian Politics

  Vladimir Milov, Russian politician and former Visiting Scholar with the Carnegie Endowment, joins Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss Russian opposition politics...

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Vladimir Milov

• Commentary
  • The Washington Post
  • January 10, 2020
  Why did the Pentagon ever give Trump the option of killing Soleimani?

  Sending the U.S. military to use force is among the most consequential decisions presidents can make. Matters may get out of control even with the most careful and deliberate ...

  By Alice Hunt Friend, Mara Karlin & Loren DeJonge Schulman