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CNAS Insights | Eight Things to Watch for in 2026
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Buckle up for a pivotal geopolitical year. In 2026, the world will struggle to make sense of U.S. actions and intentions, and Washington will remain uncertain about its own pl...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS 2025 Wrapped: Events
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In 2025, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted bold, bipartisan, and innovative conversations through panel discussions, fireside chats, and our 2025 annual con...
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Staff Picks 2025: Listens
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This year, the staff at the Center for a New American Security dove into researching some of the most pressing and hard-hitting national security issues of the day. But we als...
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Staff Picks 2025: Watch
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This year, the staff at the Center for a New American Security dove into researching some of the most pressing and hard-hitting national security issues of the day. But we als...
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Staff Picks 2025: Read
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The staff at the Center for a New American Security dove into researching some of the most pressing and hard-hitting national security issues of the day. But we also take time...
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CNAS 2025 Wrapped: Reports
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Throughout 2025, CNAS experts cut through the noise of a volatile policy environment to provide bold, innovative, and actionable analysis of the most pressing national securit...
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Insights | The Export Control Loophole Fueling China's Chip ProductionThis week, Reuters reported that China has apparently built a prototype of an extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) system, a highly intricate machine used to produce cutting-...
By Michelle Nie, Autumn Dorsey & Janet Egan
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No Grid, No Glory: What History Teaches Us About the Next Major War
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This article was originally published on The National Interest.The Trump Administration’s new National Security Strategy goes to great lengths to do what every good strategist...
By Will Rogers
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Recommendations for Promoting American AI AbroadStrategic Context and Program Objectives The American AI Exports Program is an ambitious and essential proposal to expand the reach of American AI technologies in foreign mar...
By Janet Egan, Geoffrey Gertz, Daniel Remler & Ruby Scanlon
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Can the Global Order Be Saved? Not Without Punishing Russia
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The only way to succeed in the urgent task of achieving a just peace settlement, therefore, is radically reshaping Russia’s calculus....
By Nicholas Lokker
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CNAS Insights | Russia Is Winning the Battle for Influence in Nigeria
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Across Africa, Russia and its proxies are well known for providing security and extracting wealth. In the Sahel the Wagner Group, and subsequently the Russian Defense Ministry...
By Kate Johnston
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CNAS Insights | The 2025 National Security Strategy
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By Richard Fontaine, Paul Scharre, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Emily Kilcrease, Lisa Curtis, Carrie Cordero, Vivek Chilukuri, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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Around the Table with Sahil Jain
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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 Sahil Jain
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Look Before We Leap on Artificial IntelligenceThis article was originally published on The Dispatch. A debate about the role that artificial intelligence should and will play in society, and how it will affect humanity fo...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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An Overlooked National Security Challenge: Maritime Supply Chain Security
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In recent years, U.S. policymakers have paid increasing attention to the vulnerabilities of supply chains, especially in terms of securing access to critical minerals. Yet the...
By Elisabeth Tamte
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CNAS Insights | Ten Days That Shook the War
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A bad peace is worse than no peace. ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
When Defense Becomes Destruction: Austria-Hungary’s Mistake and Ukraine’s RiskThis article was originally posted on War on the Rocks. The southeastern Polish city of Przemyśl, with its elegant 19th century Habsburg-era train station, remains one of the ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Ukraine’s Catch-22 MomentThis article was originally published in the Financial Times. In Joseph Heller’s wartime classic, Catch-22, the protagonist Yossarian seeks out the US army surgeon Doc Daneeka...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Securing America’s Grid Through Transformers and Workforce Resilience
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Cyber threats to America’s electricity grid are real and intensifying, and policymakers discussing grid security often focus solely on them. However, the US electric grid has ...
By Juliana Fleming
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CNAS Insights | Budgetary Own Goals Undermine “Speed and Volume”
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On November 7, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth laid out a plan to overhaul the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) acquisition system. Placing an emphasis on delivering new capa...
By Philip Sheers, Carlton Haelig & Stacie Pettyjohn
