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Policy Roundtable: What to Make of Trump’s National Security Strategy
Commentary
Every time an American president releases a new National Security Strategy, it provokes a round of commentary on the document itself as well as an additional round of hand-wri...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for the Department of Defense?
Commentary
What happens to the Defense Department when the federal government shuts down? I can shed some light on this; in October 2013, I was a DoD civilian charged with helping to ens...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Amanda Sloat on recent European travel, hot-button issues of 2018
Podcast
Dr. Amanda Sloat, Julie Smith, and Jim Townsend all recently visited different European cities, from Brussels to Munich to Berlin. The latest episode of Brussels Sprouts highl...
By Julianne Smith & Dr. Amanda Sloat
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Trump's National Security Strategy Is Dead on Arrival
Commentary
If a national security strategy is developed by well-meaning, capable advisers, who have little control over an undisciplined and unpredictable president, is it worth the pape...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump’s New National-Security Strategy Projects Confidence
Commentary
President Trump today unveiled his new National Security Strategy (NSS), exceeding the expectations of the national-security community by producing a remarkably coherent NSS w...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Commentary
Defense / Technology & National Security
Congress Mandates New DoD Study Central to Understanding TBITraumatic brain injury (TBI) is the signature wound of today's conflicts, affecting more than 370,000 service members, and emerging evidence suggests troops may be exposed to ...
By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre
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Give Bad Faith a Chance in North Korea
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said this week that the U.S. was “ready to talk” to North Korea. The White House and State Department walked back that statement, but Mr. Till...
By Peter Harrell
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China Mistakenly Challenges Andrew Jackson to a Duel
Commentary
The United States Navy will be making a port call in Taiwan in the near future. The only questions that remain are where, when, and how many ships of what type will drop ancho...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
A Rorschach Test for Civil-Military RelationsEarlier this week, I wrote in Slate about how America’s military leaders have seemingly improvised a new norm of civil-military relations in response to President Donald Trump...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump must stop Venezuela from sliding toward total dictatorship
The Trump administration’s sanctions on Venezuela have succeeded in creating a cash crunch in Caracas. But with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro getting close to defaulting...
By Peter Harrell
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The Human Factor in the “Unmanned” Systems of the People's Liberation ArmyEven as the character of conflict is transformed by the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) on the battlefield, the human factor is no less important in this m...
By Elsa B. Kania
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How Many Battles Can the Pentagon Fight in Washington at Once?
Commentary
Agenda SecDef relaunched earlier this year with advice for then-new Secretary James Mattis, warning against the demands of unreasonable expectations in order to focus on five ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Lauren Fish
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
Military Chiefs’ Reluctance to MarchIn a dizzying series of tweets and news stories on Monday, the Pentagon appeared to simultaneously embrace transgender recruits while the Trump administration was losing its b...
By Phillip Carter
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Video
Technology & National Security
Technology, Innovation, and the Future of WarfareWe are living in the midst of an information revolution that is changing how we communicate, shop, do business, and make friends. It is also changing warfare. The U.S. militar...
By Paul Scharre & Jerry Hendrix
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CNAS Commentary: “The New York Bombing: What We Know and How Not to Curb the Threat”
Washington, December 12 – In the wake of a terrorist attack near the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Adjunct Senior Fellow Step...
By Stephen Tankel
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Technology & National Security
Quantum Technology & National SecurityQuantum technologies have the potential to defeat modern crypto-systems and provide otherwise unimaginable computational capabilities. The current strategic-analysis landscape...
By Michael J. Biercuk
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Podcast
Technology & National Security
Paul Scharre on NPR: The Challenges Of Regulating Autonomous WeaponsAutonomous weapons, capable of operating independent of human control, are being developed by several countries around the world. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Paul Scharre o...
By Paul Scharre
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North Korea threats raise Olympic security fears
Video
US and South Korean security agencies are becoming increasingly concerned that North Korea may attempt an attack during the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. C...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Women in National Security: Laura RosenbergerLaura Rosenburger, former foreign policy advisor for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign, discusses the misconceptions women have about working in national security....
By Laura Rosenberger
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Technology & National Security
China Is On a Whole-of-Nation Push for AI. The US Must Match ItChina has made no secret of its ambitions to lead the world in artificial intelligence, nor of the military and geopolitical advantage it hopes to gain from this rapidly advan...
By Elsa B. Kania
