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Technology & National Security
OpenAI and Anthropic Poach Trump Officials as Industry Fights for Washington’s Trust“Frontier AI companies are aware that the Trump administration has a lot of levers over their business, from federal procurement and supply-chain designations to export contro...
By Michelle Nie
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Iran’s Drones Reveal U.S. Military Weakness
“Maybe you harden certain bases, and you’re going to put fewer forces on them, or are you going to create a fortress base,” with extra air defenses and buried facilities, said...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Technology & National Security
The Real Danger May Be AI as Dumb as UsIn a national security context, the stakes would be far higher, said Jack Shanahan, a retired Air Force general who served as the first director of the U.S. Defense Department...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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After B-1’s Leave England, Analysts Point to Limited Options, Importance of Base Defense
The immediate operational impact of the bomber evacuation from Fairford is likely to be limited since the US is not currently flying many missions against Iran, according to S...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Pentagon Launches Pilot Program That Will Use AI to Manage Sensitive Information
Josh Wallin, who studies AI as a fellow at the Center for a New American Security’s defense program, told DefenseScoop Wednesday that automation could help with misclassificat...
By Josh Wallin
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China Has Resolved Its ‘Malacca Dilemma’
What’s more, noted James Crabtree, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and the author of the forthcoming The Perimeter — on the “First Island Chain...
By James Crabtree
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Trump Steers Nearly $7B to Shipbuilding in Deal with Weapons Maker Anduril
“It is unusual,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan national security think tank. It will be intere...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Finland’s President Bets on America but Prepares for a New World OrderAlong with Stubb, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski are among those European leaders keeping the transatlantic relationship afloa...
By James Crabtree
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Technology & National Security
As the Military Plans to Speed up the Use of Drones and AI in Warfare, Congress Considers Safeguards"The consequences of getting it wrong could be really bad," said Paul Scharre of the Center for a New American Security, who has written two books on military AI and led the w...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump Blames Democrats and Ukraine for Soaring U.S. Fuel Prices, Not Iran War
“The ongoing conflicts with Iran and Russia’s war with Ukraine are reinforcing each other, impairing oil product markets, but Middle Eastern flows are far from normal,” Rachel...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Russia’s Navy Shows Its Reach Around Japan’s Southwestern Islands
“For ships coming south from Vladivostok through the East China Sea, the passage between Yonaguni and Iriomote provides a convenient way into the Philippine Sea without going ...
By CDR Thomas Shugart, USN
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National Security Human Capital
Hegseth Military Base Competition: Map Shows 6 States Most Likely to HostKatherine Kuzminski, director of studies at the Center for a New American Security, told Newsweek that one of the biggest questions is what Hegseth means by a “base.” The U.S....
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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U.S. Widens Iran Sanctions to Automotive and Rail Sectors
The blacklisting of a few individual Middle Eastern suppliers is not surprising or significant in and of itself, according to Rachel Ziemba, a macrostrategy adviser in New Yor...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Technology & National Security
The AI Arms Race Is Not Inevitable. It’s Just Profitable.Have those ambitions grown since? In 2025, a handful of Chinese AI developers, most notably, Alibaba, declared their intention to build superintelligence, but China specialist...
By Ruby Scanlon
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Technology & National Security
Nvidia’s Blind Spots Exposed by China Chip Smuggling“I’ve never felt like we got a straight answer as to how it’s possible for so many chips to be going to the Southeast Asia region if they were not serving customers in China,”...
By Daniel Remler
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Nvidia’s Blind Spots Exposed by China Chip Smuggling
“It is clear that the CEO of Nvidia has influence over US export control policy, even more so than the members of President Trump’s own cabinet, and that's a huge change from ...
By Liza Tobin
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The Air Force Retreats from Studying China
CASI’s goal is to “study everything that flies in China” in order to “better understand decision making, limitations, opportunities, and challenges,” as then-Chairman of the J...
By Tom Shugart
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
U.S.-China Relations: Avoiding the Worst Case Isn’t Good EnoughInstead, the prevailing conclusion is that the meeting was “a diplomatic nothing burger,” in the words of regional analyst and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New Am...
By James Crabtree
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National Security Human Capital
Hegseth Calls for Contest to Decide America’s Next Military BaseWhat they're saying: It's not clear how Hegseth can avoid Congress, said Katherine Kuzminski, the Center for a New American Security's director of studies. "It needs to be led...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Fortress Guam: The Environmental Cost of Preparing for War with China
“The reason that Guam was important in the 1600s for the Spanish was the same reason it was important for the United States when they got it from Spain in 1898, the same reaso...
By Carlton Haelig