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Trump’s Turnabout on Greenland Shows the Limits of His Coercive Powers
In The News
Even by President Trump’s own mercurial standards, his whipsawing over the past few weeks on Greenland — insisting on the largest land acquisition in American history and then...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS Launches Essay Series on Revitalizing the Defense Industrial Base
Press Release
Washington, January 22, 2026 — Today, the Center for a New American Security’s (CNAS) Defense Program launched a new essay series on modernizing and revitalizing America’s def...
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‘Old Wine in a New Bottle’: Greenland Negotiations Resemble an Earlier Deal
In The News
The negotiations over Greenland’s future center around building up a larger NATO presence, thwarting adversaries and giving the United States sovereign claim to bits of the is...
By Jim Townsend
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Trump Cements U.S. Strategy on Semiconductor Chips Despite China RisksThe Trump administration opted for a narrow and limited set of tariffs on semiconductor chips, backing down from a threat of duties as high as 100 percent on the critical tech...
By Janet Egan
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CNAS Welcomes Elisa Ewers as Director of Middle East Security Program
Washington, January 21, 2026 — The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is delighted to welcome Elisa Ewers as senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Prog...
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NATO Allies Take on Trump as Greenland Threats ‘Rupture’ Global Order
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The leaders of some of America’s closest allies used the Davos summit this week to confront a new world order under President Trump in which the U.S. is an unreliable partner,...
By Jim Townsend
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Greenland Escalation Risks a Different Kind of Trade War. How It Could Play Out.
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The tariff tit-for-tat is back, this time between the U.S. and Europe as President Donald Trump amps up the pressure on the continent in his effort to annex Greenland, a terri...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Harder to Enter, Costlier to Stay: What the U.S. Immigration Reset Means for You
In The News
If you’re planning a US holiday, sending a child to study there, relocating talent, or exploring investor residency, 2026 demands closer attention than ever. The Trump adminis...
By Annie Pforzheimer
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America’s Defense Industry Is in Trouble, with No Plan to Fix It
In The News
It’s hard to dispute that Donald Trump has a knack for identifying problems....
By Becca Wasser
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Carney’s EV Deal with Beijing Is High-Wire Diplomacy with Risks on Both Sides
In The News
One day before Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Beijing, U.S. President Donald Trump offered his latest dismissal of the Canadian auto industry. The North American free-t...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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In The News
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea BarriersChina quietly mobilized thousands of fishing boats twice in recent weeks to form massive floating barriers of at least 200 miles long, showing a new level of coordination that...
By Tom Shugart
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Edward Fishman on Economic Chokepoints
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Edward Fishman is a CNAS adjunct senior fellow and Senior Fellow and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center on Geoeconomic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations. He is al...
By Edward Fishman
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
VA Awards Disability Benefits Using Criteria from 80 Years Ago, Federal Watchdog FindsA federal watchdog warned lawmakers that the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to fully revise the 80-year-old criteria for awarding disability payments or risk miscalculat...
By Kyleanne Hunter
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Trump Signals He’ll Hold off Another Attack on Iran for Now
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President Donald Trump indicated that he might hold off on attacking Iran for now after saying he was reassured by sources “on the other side” that the government in Tehran wo...
By Becca Wasser
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How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler
In The News
Just after midnight on January 3rd, as American commandos surged into Caracas to seize President Nicolás Maduro, large sections of the city went dark. Blackouts are common in ...
By Richard Fontaine
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2025 Proved the Case for Drone Defense
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As mass-produced strike and FPV drones reshape battlefields from Ukraine to the Red Sea, the United States is scrambling to bend the cost curve, scale affordable interceptors,...
By Samuel Bendett
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Military Experts Reject Trump’s Logic That U.S. Must Own Greenland to Defend It
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President Trump’s assertion that the U.S. must own Greenland to expand its defenses there runs counter to decades of policy and undermines the deterrence of its global network...
By Richard Fontaine
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Why Trump Is Gunning for America’s Defence Giants
In The News
If you want to understand why Donald Trump is gunning for America’s defence companies, a big part of the answer lies in a single, startling estimate....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
The Military Is Running Out of Teenagers to Recruit — And Old-School Methods to Reach Them Are FailingMilitary recruiting is on the upswing, but many recruiters say it's never been harder to get young people interested in service....
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Trump Promises Oil Executives ‘Total Safety’ If They Invest in Venezuela
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United States President Donald Trump has called on oil executives to rush back into Venezuela as the White House looks to quickly secure $100bn in investments to revive the co...
By Rachel Ziemba
