December 19, 2019

CNAS: Bold Ideas for National Security

By: Susanna V. Blume, Kara Frederick, Kayla M. Williams, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Richard Fontaine, Kristine Lee, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Ely Ratner, Paul Scharre, Elizabeth Rosenberg and Carrie Cordero

This year, CNAS experts brought bold ideas and bipartisan cooperation to the national security conversation. In 2020, the CNAS team will continue tackling the biggest security challenges facing U.S. foreign policy, drawing from a wide range of experiences, expertise, and creativity here at the Center. CNAS offers bipartisan solutions for America's most complicated national security policy issues today, while empowering the next generation of U.S. national security leadership for the future.

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Commentary

Indo-Pacific Security
Japan Wants Calm, China Not So Much
This article was originally published in Asian Military Review. One of the most serious China-Japan diplomatic crises in recent years unfolded in November after Chinese offici...

By Derek Grossman
- Asian Military Review
- January 26, 2026
Commentary

Technology & National Security
The Rise of the Answer Machines
This article was originally published in Financial Times. Every spring, I take red-eyes from Austin, Texas, to Oxford, England, to teach a graduate seminar on AI and philosoph...

By Brendan McCord
- Financial Times
- January 24, 2026
Podcast

Transatlantic Security
Transatlantic Tumult at Davos
It has been a tumultuous month in the transatlantic alliance. This week, President Donald Trump’s demands to take control of Greenland reached a fever pitch. On Sunday, Presid...

By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
- January 23, 2026
Commentary

Defense
The Ever-Changing, Unchanged Defense Acquisition System
Introduction The defense acquisition system has been and continues to be in a period of great change, both in terms of the laws and processes that govern it and the private se...

By Susanna V. Blume
- January 22, 2026