Reports

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• Reports
  • November 7, 2018
  Human Performance Enhancement

  Executive Summary No attributes are more foundational to success in combat than the physical and cognitive performance of warfighters. Technological advantage has always playe...

  By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish

• Reports
  • October 30, 2018
  The Financing of WMD Proliferation

  The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is a critical threat facing the international community. Numerous United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) place b...

  By Jonathan Brewer

• Reports
  • October 23, 2018
  Emerging Technologies

  Executive Summary Changing the Survivability Paradigm In World War II, being an infantryman was the third deadliest job in the American military, behind bombardiers and submar...

  By Paul Scharre, Lauren Fish, Katherine Kidder & Amy Schafer

• Reports
  • October 23, 2018
  Changing Tides in the Sea of Goodwill: A Financial Analysis of Veteran-Serving Nonprofits

  As the United States enters its 18th year of war since 9/11, the shape of the country’s veteran community is rapidly transforming. The total number of American veterans is shr...

  By Douglas McCormick, Emma Moore & Andrew Swick

• Reports
  • October 2, 2018
  Uncharted Waters

  Nearly 10 years have passed since the quiet release of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that set off a worldwide frenzy for alternative currencies. Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin...

  By Julia Solomon-Strauss, Edoardo Saravalle & Claire Groden

• Reports
  • September 27, 2018
  Leveraging ROTC to Span the Civil-Military Gap

  Introduction and Executive Summary For just over 100 years, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) has stood at the intersection of the military and American society, ser...

  By Emma Moore & Andrew Swick

• Reports
  • September 26, 2018
  The Soldier’s Heavy Load

  Body armor saves lives. Modern body armor has given U.S. troops an unparalleled advantage on the battlefield, improving survivability and reducing casualties. This protection ...

  By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre

• Reports
  • September 20, 2018
  Power Play

  The United States and China are in a competition to shape the course of the 21st century. At stake is whether the prevailing international order that has backstopped peace, pr...

  By Daniel Kliman & Abigail Grace

• Reports
  • September 12, 2018
  Quantum Hegemony?

  China is positioning itself as a powerhouse in quantum science. Within the past several years, Chinese researchers have achieved a track record of consistent advances in basic...

  By Elsa B. Kania & John Costello

• Reports
  • September 10, 2018
  Filling the Seams in U.S. Long-Range Penetrating Strike

  By Jerry Hendrix

• Reports
  • July 31, 2018
  'Congress Perhaps?'

  Introduction Congressional oversight serves a critical role in the American system of government; in the foreign policy arena in particular, the Founding Fathers established a...

  By Daniel Rosenthal

• Reports
  • July 31, 2018
  Behind The Magical Thinking

  Executive Summary Drones’ greatest attraction for the national security world is that they create options where there were none – or none at a cost policymakers feel comfortab...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman

• Reports
  • July 25, 2018
  Strategic Competition in an Era of Artificial Intelligence

  This report is part of the Center for a New American Security’s series on Artificial Intelligence and International Security...

  By Michael Horowitz, Elsa B. Kania, Gregory C. Allen & Paul Scharre

• Reports
  • July 23, 2018
  Weird Birds: Working Paper on Policymaker Perspectives on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Their Impact on National Security Decision-Making

  1.INTRODUCTION No movie about a national security crisis would be complete without a darkened room displaying a blinking screen of real-time military assets as angry advisors ...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman

• Reports
  • July 10, 2018
  Artificial Intelligence and International Security

  This report is part of the Center for a New American Security’s series on Artificial Intelligence and International Security....

  By Michael Horowitz, Paul Scharre, Gregory C. Allen, Kara Frederick, Anthony Cho & Edoardo Saravalle

• Reports
  • June 20, 2018
  A Precarious Accord

  Executive Summary Throughout 2017, diplomacy remained almost dormant as North Korea blazed through a record set of nuclear-related activities and demonstrated its ability to l...

  By Patrick Cronin & Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein

• Reports
  • June 19, 2018
  Artificial Intelligence

  Preface by Robert O. Work We are in the midst of an ever accelerating and expanding global revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, with enormous impli...

  By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz

• Reports
  • June 18, 2018
  More Than Burden Sharing

  Executive Summary In early-July, NATO will host the first full-length summit at its new headquarters in Brussels. It will also be the first NATO summit for President Donald Tr...

  By Mark Newton, Rachel Rizzo, Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend

• Reports
  • June 11, 2018
  China's Use of Coercive Economic Measures

  Executive Summary China has been a practitioner of economic statecraft throughout its history, and in recent decades since Deng Xiaoping opened the country in the 1970s. Today...

  By Peter Harrell, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Edoardo Saravalle

• Reports
  • June 1, 2018
  The Bottom Line

  Executive Summary 2019 presented a very rare opportunity for the Department of Defense to change the shape of the future joint force: the Trump administration has set a new st...

  By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish