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Air War in Iran Gives Way to Crippling Stalemate in Hormuz
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“As it goes on, we could see oil prices getting higher and some stagflationary risks mounting, so this is going to weigh on global consumers,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct s...
By Rachel Ziemba
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U.S. Disputes Reports of Ships Breaching Blockade
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The dotted line is “an operational tool for the Navy warships that has little to no legal import. The law of blockade speaks nothing about blockade lines, it just speaks about...
By Mark Nevitt
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent Says Gulf, Asian Allies Request Swap Lines
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“It is more likely that the ask is symbolic and one of the many ways that the UAE government has been trying to signal their commitment to the U.S., at least in national secur...
By Rachel Ziemba
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CNAS Welcomes Abe Denmark and David Black to Indo-Pacific Security Program
Washington, April 20, 2026 — The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is thrilled to welcome Abe Denmark and David Black as adjunct senior fellows with the Indo-Pacific S...
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How Iran’s Cheap, Low-Tech Drones Have Cost the U.S.
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Air defense training teaches service members to prioritize using longer-range defense systems first to “get as many bites at the apple as you can,” but those are the most expe...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Military Prepares to Board Iran-Linked Ships in Coming Days, Officials Say
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“It’s a maximalist approach. If you want to put the screws down on Iran, you want to use every single legal authority you have to do that,” Nevitt said....
By Mark Nevitt
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How China and Russia Are Becoming Iran’s Eyes in the Sky
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Carlton Haelig, a fellow with the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), said Beijing only has thin deniability over the TEE-01B satellite. “It is v...
By Carlton Haelig
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Can the U.S. and Iran Close Off the Strait of Hormuz? What International Law Says.
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Here, most experts agree that the stakes are extremely high. Until the Iran war, the international law governing the seas “was going so fine that no one thought about it,” say...
By Mark Nevitt
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What to Know About ‘Ship Spoofing’ by Iran-Linked Vessel to Breach the U.S. Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz
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Boarding operations would likely rely on smaller, more maneuverable assets, including rigid-hull boats and helicopters, to rapidly intercept and inspect vessels, Mark Nevitt, ...
By Mark Nevitt
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Technology & National Security
Iran Is Teaching Us Something About the American War Machine“We’re starting to see the contours of a new age of missile and drone warfare,” Paul Scharre of the Center for a New American Security says....
By Paul Scharre
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Quad Summit Plan Turns Uneasy as India Pushes Ahead Without Top Leaders: Sources
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Lisa Curtis, who served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for South and Central Asia during Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2021, argued that trying to ...
By Lisa Curtis
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The Pentagon Wants a 188 Percent Bump for Missile Procurement. Can Industry Deliver?
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“I think the Pentagon is viewing this as a generational budget, as something to try and overcome some of the longstanding challenges that existed and to essentially reposition...
By Becca Wasser
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How the U.S. Navy Could Enforce a Blockade of Iran’s Ports in the Strait of Hormuz
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"This is not a law enforcement action, it's a wartime action," said Mark Nevitt, a former U.S. Navy judge advocate general officer and an associate professor at Emory Universi...
By Mark Nevitt
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Technology & National Security
Mutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms RaceIn Washington, Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, who had previously worked in intelligence at the Defense Department, was assessing whether A.I. could solve a more immediate problem. Th...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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U.S. Threat to Blockade Hormuz Sets Up Risky New Showdown
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“The de-escalation window for the global economy, such as it was, is over for now,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a W...
By Rachel Ziemba
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National Security Human Capital
How Hegseth Has Transformed the Pentagon’s Wartime Press OperationJason Dempsey, a career Army infantry officer who served as a special assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said social media videos and public appearances do not serve the ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Trump’s $1.5T Defense Budget to Weather Harsh Scrutiny on Capitol Hill
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“On the one hand, it has a lot of the things that Congress has been asking the department to focus on: heavy investments in munitions production — both interceptors and offens...
By Carlton Haelig
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‘Closer to a Break than Ever’: Can NATO Survive If Trump Pulls the U.S. Out?
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By Jim Townsend
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Technology & National Security
Debatable: AI Titans Influencing RegulationVivek Chilukuri, who leads the Center for a New American Security’s technology and national security program, argued that the problem is not AI companies influencing regulatio...
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Energy Prices May Take ‘Months’ to Normalise, Despite Ceasefire: Analysts
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For now, “an overhang of greater risk premium of supplies out of the Gulf means oil prices will remain higher than what they were before the attack started”, said Rachel Ziemb...
By Rachel Ziemba
