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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Closing the Remote Access LoopThis article was originally published in Issues in Science and Technology. As Asad Ramzanali argues in “Why the Cloud Needs Competition” (Issues, Winter 2026), cloud computing...
By Michelle Nie
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Navigating the Currents: Sri Lanka’s National Security Debate in the New Indian Ocean Order
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Sri Lanka’s national security debate in 2026 is ultimately between whether the country can break from the institutional pressures that have constrained previous reform attempt...
By Keerthi Martyn
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Beyond Reshoring
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Introduction Over the past several years, Congress and the Trump and Biden administrations have made significant efforts to reverse America’s atrophying manufacturing capabili...
By Diem Salmon
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Trump’s Replacement Tariffs Will Have Unintended Consequences for USMCA
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Ultimately, this is a choice between two models of economic leadership. One relies on rules, predictability, and partnership. The other leans on discretion, leverage, and shor...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Britain Should Be Europe’s Silicon Valley. One Thing Is Stopping It.At the heart of the country’s economic struggles is a central weakness that must be fixed: risk aversion. This is not a cultural problem, as is often implied, but institutiona...
By Keegan McBride
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Can the Secretary of Defense Remove Admirals from a Promotion List?
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At stake is whether Congress’s carefully constructed promotion system can continue to serve its core purpose: ensuring that advancement to the military’s highest ranks is base...
By Mark Nevitt
