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‘Closer to a Break than Ever’: Can NATO Survive If Trump Pulls the U.S. Out?
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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Trump’s $1.5T Defense Budget to Weather Harsh Scrutiny on Capitol Hill
“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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Trump Administration Expected to Slash Iran War Funding Request
Stacie Pettyjohn, who directs the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank, said that even the reduced supplemental request would be a test of t...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Administration Expected to Keep Waiving Russian Oil Sanctions as Iran Call Looms
“Tinkering with Iranian oil is not a sanctions question at the end of the day; it’s about the market’s general assessment of this conflict’s direction,” said Capitol Peak Stra...
By Alex Zerden
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The NATO Chief Is on an Alliance ‘Rescue Mission’ with Trump
“It’s a rescue mission, in some ways, to try to keep the U.S. at least in the alliance,” said Jim Townsend, a former Pentagon official who oversaw Europe and NATO policy durin...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump Is Claiming Victory, Even As What Exactly America Won Remains Unclear
“When things are all over, I don’t think there will be much in the plus column except weakening their military for the moment,” said Jim Townsend, who has worked at both the P...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump Threatens 50% Tariffs on Countries Supplying Iran with Weapons
However, “it’s a lot more complicated to do that after IEEPA was struck down”, Rachel Ziemba, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told Al Jazeera....
By Rachel Ziemba
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Technology & National Security
AI & Tech Brief: The power of Mythos“I think this sort of release model that we’re seeing will be here to stay,” Caleb Withers, a research associate for the Technology and National Security Program at the Center...
By Caleb Withers
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Can Philippines Become Critical Minerals Powerhouse with Help from U.S., Japan?
The report, written by CNAS Indo-Pacific Security Programme executive director Lisa Curtis and research assistant Ryan Claffey, said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Phili...
By Lisa Curtis & Ryan Claffey
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Trump Finds His Offramp with Iran. But the Causes of War Remain Unresolved.“Iran remains in the control of the Strait, which was not the case before the war,” said Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security, a Was...
By Richard Fontaine
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Cyber, Nuclear, Invasion? What Is Trump Threatening in Iran
"The U.S. has employed a significant number of its most advanced capabilities in the war -- air assets, cruise missiles, advanced stealth bombers, one-way attack drones," said...
By Daniel Schneiderman
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How Lessons from Iran War Could Shape Mainland China’s Calculus on Taiwan
“The U.S. military really does remain operationally exquisite, especially in joint operations, [something] that China isn’t capable of doing because we have the experience,” s...
By Jacob Stokes
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Technology & National Security
Retired Military Officers Call Trump’s Threats Against Iran ‘Likely War Crimes’Congress has incrementally surrendered its prerogative to declare war and direct military spending, said Gary Corn, a retired army staff attorney who teaches national security...
By Gary Corn
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Free Trade is Dead in Washington
His trade negotiators have also put together bilateral trade deals that require countries to align their trade policies with the United States—and against China. The provision...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Hungary’s Orbán Has Long Annoyed the European Union. Now Some Hope He Faces Defeat
It didn’t start that way. After the Cold War, Hungary joined the EU along with nine other countries in 2004 in the bloc’s largest expansion ever. There was widespread optimism...
By Jim Townsend
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National Security Human Capital
Pentagon Calls Individual Ready Reserve a ‘Mobilization Asset’ in New PolicyKate Kuzminski, director of studies for the Center for New American Security, said the IRR has always been part of the Pentagon’s strategy to “fill necessary requirements in w...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Calls for Tougher U.S. Bunkers, Hangars Go Back Years, Analysts Say
“People are asking the valid question: What on earth was this half-billion dollar airplane doing sitting right out in the open, where commercial satellite imagery can see exac...
By Tom Shugart
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How China Uses Commercial Ships to Pressure Taiwan Without Firing a Shot
Thomas Shugart, a former U.S. Navy officer and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the pattern was unprecedented. "If you can put hundreds or even th...
By Tom Shugart
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The War’s Economic Impact Could Get Worse for Americans
“I don’t think the U.S. will avoid it. These are global markets,” said Rachel Ziemba, a New York-based analyst who advises corporations on geopolitical risk. “Experts, even a ...
By Rachel Ziemba