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China’s Quiet Quest to Dominate Latin America
Commentary
Beijing can thus make investment after investment almost undetected until, suddenly, it has built much of a state’s critical security infrastructure....
By Natalia Cote Muñoz
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The Cure for Russia’s Labor Shortage Is Worse Than the DiseaseAltogether, while Russia’s labor crisis is becoming a structural constraint on the Kremlin’s wartime economy, domestic stability, and long-term geopolitical ambitions, its res...
By Samuel Bendett
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Donald Trump Is Missing Thailand’s Strategic Moment
Commentary
As China expands its economic footprint across mainland Southeast Asia, Washington must demonstrate that it can also be Thailand’s partner of choice for trade, investment, and...
By Derek Grossman
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The Ambiguity Spiral in Iran
Commentary
But on the whole, the best way for the United States to settle the war with Iran is to be clearer about its objectives....
By Erik Lin-Greenberg
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Trump’s Pacific Islands Blind Spot
Commentary
If the Trump administration truly believes that strategic competition with China will be decided in the Western Pacific, then the Pacific islands should be receiving more—not ...
By Derek Grossman
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To Understand the Middle East’s Future, Follow the Cranes
Commentary
The Middle East exemplifies the reality that control of infrastructure has always meant more than commerce. That competition is already underway. Follow the cranes....
By Eitan Danon & Josh Kram
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Can China Keep Its AI Open?Without reliable ways to measure dangerous capabilities, some judgments may be wrong. And an open model that clears a badly drawn line proliferates globally, offering maliciou...
By Ruby Scanlon
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Accelerate Production by Modernizing Acquisition
Commentary
Introduction The threats facing the United States and its allies today demand more than incremental improvements to defense capacity—they require a fundamentally different mod...
By Frank St. John
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The Modern Mythology of AILLMs can’t replace people, and AI can’t replicate actual thought. But if employers reject these truths and succumb to empty promises and motivated thinking, employees will suf...
By Peter L. Levin
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German Military Power Needs to Go It Alone
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But those who worry about a mighty Germany going it alone need to face an uncomfortable truth: NATO needs a powerful German military backed by the continent’s biggest economy ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Defense Tech’s Big Test
Commentary
Introduction The U.S. defense sector is at the front end of the largest private capital cycle it has ever seen, with venture capital investment assuming an inceasingly powerfu...
By Mela Louise Norman
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After the Trump-Xi Summit, What’s Next for the U.S. and China?
Commentary
This article was originally published in Inkstick. The recent Xi-Trump summit helped extend the truce the countries agreed on and created some new institutions to manage the r...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The Kill Switch and the Long ArmBut much remains undecided: The EU’s rules are still being written, and the biggest investments are still only plans. An assurance offered now can shape those choices but if o...
By Pablo Chavez
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The Fourth of July That Saved My Family
Commentary
When we tolerate the romanticization of political violence, we cede the moral high ground and pave the way for another 9/11 or another cowardly attack on a school or music fes...
By Anne Neuberger
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How Congress Can Regulate Military Promotions After Trump v. Slaughter
Commentary
If Congress wishes to preserve merit-based military promotions while respecting presidential command authority, the solution is not to eliminate executive discretion but to ca...
By Mark Nevitt
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Rethinking Treasury's Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Office
Commentary
The United States does not need a new department. It needs its existing economic statecraft apparatus to work—better resourced, better organized, and better calibrated to a th...
By Alex Zerden
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2026 Summer Reading List from Derisky Business
Commentary
On Derisky Business, the economic security podcast from the Center for a New American Security, we like to ask all our guests to recommend their favorite books listeners shoul...
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz & Eleanor Hume
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Thanks to Trump, Russia’s Own ‘Pivot to Asia’ Is Bearing Fruit
Commentary
If Washington wants to maintain its strategic position in Southeast Asia, it will need to do more than compete with China. It will also need to avoid handing Russia opportunit...
By Derek Grossman
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Nuclear Stability in the Age of AI
Commentary
In 2024, Paul Scharre and Michael Depp wrote, “Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Stability,” where they argued integrating artificial intelligence into the nuclear chain of ...
By Paul Scharre
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Losing the War of the FutureThis article was originally published in Foreign Affairs. In its recent campaign against Iran, the United States dominated the skies using its traditional airpower. The U.S. m...
By Paul Scharre
