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The CNAS 2025 National Security Conference

Maintaining America's AI Edge

Countering China's Digital Silk Road: Brazil

The Stakes of Sino-American AI Competition

Countering China's Digital Silk Road: Indonesia

Safe and Effective: Advancing Department of Defense Test and Evaluation for AI and Autonomous Systems

The Future of Military Artificial Intelligence

CHOKEPOINTS: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

Virtual Event | Derisky Business LIVE on New Tariff Actions

Virtual Event | Transatlantic Turbulence: The Future Role of the United States in European Security

Virtual Event | Biopower: Securing American Leadership in Biotechnology

Mission Brief | Irregular Warfare in an Era of Great Power Competition

Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves

Russia and China in Central Asia: Compete, Cooperate, or De-conflict?

Quality of Life for Service Members and their Families

The Road Ahead: Israelis and Palestinians One Year After October 7

Integration for Innovation: A Report of the CNAS Defense Technology Task Force

A Conversation with General Charles A. Flynn, Commanding General, U.S. Army Pacific

Exploiting Russian Weakness: Moldova and Georgia at a Crossroads

Confronting the Axis of Upheaval with Rep. Smith and Rep. Wittman

The Cyber Landscape in the Indo-Pacific

The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within

“Focus: The ASML Way” with Marc Hijink

AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security Risks

Over the Brink: Escalation Management in a Protracted U.S.-PRC Conflict

The Center Must Hold with Michèle Flournoy and Richard Fontaine

Adapting NATO's Nuclear Posture to Current Threats

AI Catastrophic Risks and National Security: Taking Stock of Perceptions and Approaches

Swarms over the Strait: Drone Warfare in a Future Fight to Defend Taiwan

Disorderly Conduct: How U.S.-China Competition Upended the International Economic Order

IF CONFIRMED: An Insider’s View of the National Security Confirmation Process

AUKUS: Taking Stock and Looking Forward

Back to the Drafting Board: U.S. Capabilities for Deterring and Winning in Protracted Conflict

The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century with General Frank McKenzie

Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power

CNAS 2024 National Security Conference: High Stakes

Developing Drone and Counter-Drone Capabilities with The Hon. Gabe Camarillo

Trends Shaping China’s Foreign and Security Policy Decision-Making under Xi Jinping

The Pitch 2024: A Competition of New Ideas

AUKUS: Securing the Indo-Pacific, A Conversation with Kurt Campbell

Forging a New Era of U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Cooperation

Virtual Event | Autonomy and International Stability: Confidence-Building Measures for Uncrewed Systems in the Indo-Pacific

Virtual Book Event | Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The U.S. in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention

Safe@Home | A Conversation on Swatting

History Repeating? An Examination of Israel’s Intelligence and Policy Failures in the October 1973 Yom Kippur War and October 2023 Hamas Attack

No Winners in This Game: Assessing the U.S. Playbook for Sanctioning China

Safe@Home | A Conversation with Michael Masters

Taking Stock of the U.S. Bioeconomy: What's Working, What's Not, and What's Next

Congress and the Conflict in Gaza: A Conversation with Congressman Adam Smith

Zero-Sum Victory: What We're Getting Wrong About War with Christopher Kolenda

General B. Chance Saltzman Chief of Space Operations, U.S. Space Force

U.S. Air Force Amidst Fiscal and Budgetary Uncertainty with the Hon. Frank Kendall III

Virtual Event | Israel at War: Hamas Attack on Israel

Covering the Conflict in Gaza: A Conversation with Barak Ravid

Mission Brief | Gaining the Asymmetric Advantage: Emerging Technology and the AUKUS Pillar 2 Promise with Prof. Tanya Monro

Fireside Chat with the Hon. Kathleen Hicks Deputy Secretary of Defense

The Honorable Dr. William LaPlante, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment

Cyber Resiliency: Discussing the 2023 DoD Cyber Strategy

Fulfilling Our Nation's Promise: A Conversation with Kelly McKeague

The Outbound Investment EO: What's in, what's out, and what does it all mean?

Thanks For Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the U.S. Military

Illicit Finance in the Digital Age with Under Secretary Nelson

Virtual Book Launch with Michael Vickers and Michèle Flournoy

The All-Volunteer Force at 50 with Secretary Kendall

Effects of the Russian Oil Cap with Dep. Sec. Wally Adeyemo

Fireside Chat with Lt. Gen. Loh, Director, Air National Guard

Book Discussion | Superpower in Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America with David McCormick

Fireside Chat with Senator Jack Reed

Avoiding the Brink: Escalation Management in a War to Defend Taiwan

Disarming the Bomb: Distilling the Drivers and Disincentives for Iran’s Nuclear Program

Peninsula Plus: Enhancing U.S.-South Korea Cooperation on China, Multilateralism, and Military and Security Technologies

The Biden Administration's Indo-Pacific Strategy with Kurt Campbell

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