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As China expands navy, US begins stockpiling ship-killing missiles
In The News
The stunning growth of the Chinese fleet over the past decade has prompted the U.S. Navy to plan a full-on buying spree of ship-killing missiles over the next five years, acco...
By Eric Sayers
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The Pentagon is racing against inflation for military might
In The News
In 2017, the top two officials at the Pentagon — then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joe Dunford — testified to Congress that...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Chinese threats means the Pentagon needs new C4ISR systems
In The News
For the United States to meet the goals laid out in the National Defense Strategy, especially in Asia, and to realize President Donald Trump’s vision of an open Indo-Pacific, ...
By Chris Dougherty
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100 things the United States must do to compete with China
In The News
There is a growing bipartisan consensus in Washington that the United States is losing its advantage in the strategic competition with China. But, so far, there has been littl...
By Ely Ratner & Eric Sayers
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In The News
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
US must revamp post-WWII order in Indo-Pacific to curb China ambitions, report saysThe U.S. and its allies must establish new rules, norms and institutions in the Indo-Pacific region as a means of blunting China’s growing military and economic might there, r...
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Goldfein Says 2021 Budget Buys Connectivity by Accepting Capacity Risk
In The News
The Air Force budget about to go to Congress will create some “real-time, near-term risk” in the service’s ability to conduct a war with a peer adversary, but that risk pays f...
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Vital Signs 2020: Industrial Base Could Struggle to Surge Production in Wartime
The U.S. industrial base would be challenged to ramp up production to meet wartime requirements in the event of a protracted great power conflict, analysts and Pentagon offici...
By Susanna V. Blume
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CNAS Launches “America Competes 2020”The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today launched “America Competes 2020,” a Center-wide initiative to renew American competitiveness at home and abroad. Amid incre...
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What is SA-15, the air defense system that may have shot down a Ukrainian plane?
The mixed messaging began almost immediately after a Ukrainian passenger jet crashed near Tehran early Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board. Iranian state media said th...
By Will Mackenzie
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Press Note
Defense / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
CNAS Responds: Tensions Rise Between the United States and IranThe first week of 2020 has seen a sharp escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions, with the U.S. killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Iranian missile strikes on U.S. military t...
By Richard Fontaine, Ilan Goldenberg, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Kayla M. Williams, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya & Kaleigh Thomas
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Congress weighs closing up No. 3 office at the Pentagon
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Just three years after Congress created a new civilian position focused on Defense Department reforms and named it the No. 3 official in the Pentagon, key lawmakers are leanin...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / National Security Law
CNAS Delivers Congressionally Mandated Study on U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific to the Department of DefenseThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today delivered an independent assessment—Rising to the China Challenge: Renewing American Competitiveness in the Indo-Pacific—to...
By Cole Stevens
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Joint Base Charleston, Parris Island projects are in peril if Congress can’t pass a budget
In The News
Congress avoided a government shutdown by passing a resolution to keep spending the same through next month, but the move could slow two vital construction projects: at Joint ...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Press Release
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CNAS and Defense One Partner for Year-Long Editorial Series: "The American Readiness Project"With original reporting, research, and a body of expert commentary, the American Readiness Project will chronicle the nation’s desire, willingness, and capability for the U.S....
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The war in Afghanistan started 18 years ago to fight terrorism after 9/11. Is the US safer?
In The News
The world was dramatically different 18 years ago when the war in Afghanistan started. Thousands of families were grappling with the deaths of their loved ones in the World Tr...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
CNAS Selected by Defense Department to Conduct Congressionally Mandated Study on U.S. Strategy in the Indo-PacificThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced that it was selected by the Department of Defense to conduct a study on the future of U.S. policy in the Indo-Pac...
By Cole Stevens
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Press Note
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
CNAS Responds: Trump Addresses China, Iran, Climate Change in UNGA SpeechAt the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) this morning, President Trump addressed world leaders on his vision of the United States' role on the global stage. Covering a range of fla...
By Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Kristine Lee, Sam Dorshimer & Emma Moore
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Bolton replacement inherits tough challenges — including Trump
In The News
Like his predecessor, President Trump’s new national security adviser is known for advocating for a robust American presence abroad, but Robert O’Brien’s allies predict he wil...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Defense / National Security Law
Mike Pompeo Is Bigger Than the Pentagon — For NowIn the nine months since Jim Mattis resigned as defense secretary, one man has become the public leader of President Trump’s national security policy: Secretary of State Mike ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Defense / National Security Human Capital
Coalition airstrikes soared even as US, Taliban talked peaceAs U.S. and Taliban officials talked peace, the U.S. military was accelerating airstrikes in Afghanistan, with the biggest monthly tally of the year carried out in August as t...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
