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Leveraging the Defense Innovation Ecosystem for Maximum Effect
Introduction At a moment when the resilience of the wartime acquisition system is a national priority, start-ups, primes, investors, and the U.S. government must align to turn...
By Aaron Peterman & Sohaila Mali
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Technology & National Security
The Strange Rise and Fall of Russia’s Crowd Sourced Defense IndustryThe overall impact of the People’s VPK on the war effort is likely larger, encompassing a host of innovation efforts....
By Samuel Bendett & Michael Kofman
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Japan, a Hesitant Geopolitical Actor No More
U.S. politics are a key driver of Japan’s geopolitical renaissance....
By Derek Grossman
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Insights | MATCHing Policy to StrategyAdvanced semiconductors underpin the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI). The computing power they provide drives military capability, economic productivity, ...
By Janet Egan & Michelle Nie
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Public Comments Submitted in Response to USTR Initiation of Section 301 Investigations
Executive Summary In its request for comment, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) solicits comments on and recommendations “regarding the acts, policies, and p...
By Emily Kilcrease & Geoffrey Gertz
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The Russia-Iran Partnership
The United States needs to prioritize increasing the cost of Russia’s support for Iran; sanctions alone are not sufficient and often encourage U.S. adversaries to get more inv...
By Delaney Soliday
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The Constitution’s Forgotten Term Limit on Military Power
They designed the Two-Year Clause not as a technical appropriations rule but as a structural guarantee: that the army of the United States would remain, as one Federalist put ...
By Mark Nevitt & Matthew. B. Lawrence
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Embracing Private Equity in the Next Era of National Security
Introduction For decades, the United States has fielded the world’s most advanced and capable military. It has done so despite an acquisition system that is often bureaucratic...
By General John W. Raymond & Matt O’Kane
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Technology & National Security
How the Pentagon Can Manage the Risks of AI WarfareTo use AI effectively, militaries will need to not only harness the promise of AI but also grapple with its limitations and risks....
By Paul Scharre
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Mined and Blockaded: Iran’s Unlawful Mining and the U.S. Port Blockade
As I discuss below, whether the United States carries out the blockade in a legal manner will affect, among other things, allied States’ willingness to participate and the ove...
By Mark Nevitt
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Middle East Security / National Security Law
Continuing Crisis in Strait of Hormuz: Why Iran’s Hold is Illegal and U.S. Military Force Alone FailsIran has drawn explicit lessons from this disruption and is now seeking to institutionalize its control....
By Mark Nevitt
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Around the Table with Keerthi Martyn
Around the Table is a three-question interview series from the Make Room email newsletter as a part of the CNAS Make Room initiative. Each edition features a conversation with...
By Karim Farishta
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Around the Table with Keerthi Martyn
Around the Table is a three-question interview series from the Make Room email newsletter as a part of the CNAS Make Room initiative. Each edition features a conversation with...
By Karim Farishta
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Technology & National Security
China’s AI Is Spreading Fast. Here’s How to Stop the Security RisksThe first problem is not about China, but about AI as a technology: It is incredibly difficult to audit the global supply chain for AI software....
By Ryan Fedasiuk
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Technology & National Security
Dutch Export Controls Don’t Go Far Enough on ChinaControlling the machines that make chips matters more than controlling any specific chip....
By Michelle Nie
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Sharper: The Energy Crisis and Iran
Weeks into the Iran war, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on the region’s oil and gas infrastructure have sent energy prices soaring, increasing costs for globa...
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Iran Shows the Emerging Crisis of the U.S. Airborne Battle Management Fleet
The ABM force structure crisis comes at an acute moment for US air operations....
By Philip Sheers
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Hellscape Taiwan: A Porcupine Defense in the Drone Age
This article was originally published in War on the Rocks It is 2029. General Secretary Xi Jinping has given the order for the People’s Liberation Army to forcibly take Taiwan...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Molly Campbell
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Defense / Middle East Security
What It Would Take to Reopen the Strait of HormuzThe strait is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) long and only 25 miles wide at its narrowest point, meaning ships have little room to maneuver and are easy targets for attacks ...
By Becca Wasser
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The U.S. Wants War Without Entanglement. It May Not Exist.
This approach to warfare appears to rest on three pillars: speed, unilateral action and limited violence imposed from a distance....
By Becca Wasser