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National Security Human Capital Program
Back to the Drafting BoardWhile no American president, member of Congress, military leader, or citizen desires the level of conflict requiring a draft, the systems, structures, and processes for implem...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Taren Sylvester
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Technology & National Security
Catalyzing CrisisThe arrival of ChatGPT in November 2022 initiated both great excitement and fear around the world about the potential and risks of artificial intelligence (AI). In response, s...
By Bill Drexel & Caleb Withers
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Technology & National Security
The Quest for QubitsThe United Nations General Assembly recently declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Quantum information science, a field once exclusive to aca...
By Sam Howell
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Building the Future Capital Campaign
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In a world awash with challenges, the demand for the Center’s work has never been greater than today. The new campaign will ensure that CNAS can fulfill its critical mission n...
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Addressing a Human Rights and Looming Terrorism Crisis in Afghanistan
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Pursuing the same harsh policies as it did during its previous stint in power in the 1990s, the Taliban has increasingly clamped down on the rights of women and girls since re...
By Lisa Curtis & Annie Pforzheimer
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Space to Grow
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In the more than 50 years since the first satellite launch, space has become irrevocably intertwined with the American way of life and the American way of war. During the Cold...
By Hannah Dennis
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The Role of AI in Russia’s Confrontation with the West
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Russian thinking about artificial intelligence (AI) development is consistent with that of other major powers that are seeking to respond to an evolving combat environment cha...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Biotech Matters: Problems with Life Science Databases in the United StatesWhile humans will retain their ultimate mysteries, many aspects of their traits, diseases, and environment are becoming increasingly tractable. Much of this advance has come f...
By Carol Kuntz
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Beyond China's Black Box
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China’s foreign and security policymaking apparatus is often described as a metaphorical black box about which analysts know little. That is true to an extent, but at the same...
By Jacob Stokes
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Technology & National Security
Biotech Matters: Public-Private Coordination of BiotechnologyAn appreciation of biotechnology’s great opportunities is, for many commentators, intimately joined with regret about a disconnect between the U.S. government and the private ...
By Richard Danzig
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Sanctions by The Numbers: The Russian Energy Sector
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Since 2014, the United States, the European Union (EU), and other like-minded nations have targeted the Russian energy sector with increasingly significant coercive economic m...
By Jocelyn Trainer, Nicholas Lokker, Kristen Taylor & Uliana Certan
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Technology & National Security
Biotech Matters: Great Data Competition and Interoperability with Allies and PartnersUnderstanding and strengthening America’s biotechnology leadership requires exploring the limits of existing data relevant to the U.S. bioeconomy so that policymakers and the ...
By Michelle Holko
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Countering Coercion
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The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC or China) has been engaging in gray zone activity—coercive behavior that is aimed at changing the status quo but that is below a threshol...
By Lisa Curtis & Nilanthi Samaranayake
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Technology & National Security
Autonomy and International StabilityIn a time of growing international tension, with interstate warfare ongoing in Europe and openly threatened over Taiwan, military forces worldwide are looking increasingly to ...
By Tom Shugart
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Forging a New Era of U.S.-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Cooperation
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Executive Summary In August 2023, the leaders of Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and the United States met for an unprecedented in-person summit at Camp David to expand an...
By Lisa Curtis, Evan Wright & Hannah Kelley
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Technology & National Security
Biotech Matters: Innovation in Agricultural BiotechnologyIn 1986, the United States established a “Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology.” In the decades since, this policy helped to enable the rapid development ...
By Dr. L. Val Giddings
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Technology & National Security
Future-Proofing Frontier AI RegulationExecutive Summary Policymakers should prepare for a world of significantly more powerful AI systems over the next decade. These developments could occur without fundamental b...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Biotech Matters: Automated Scientists Will Power Tomorrow’s BioeconomyTwenty years ago, it was barely plausible that soon every person on Earth would have a supercomputer in their pocket with ready access to the world’s information. Even though ...
By Dr. David A. Markowitz
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Technology & National Security
Biotech MattersOperation Warp Speed showed the power of the U.S. government to direct national biotech capabilities around a shared goal—in this case, a novel vaccine. But there are many oth...
By Hannah Kelley
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Evolution Not Revolution
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This report concludes that drones have transformed the battlefield in the war in Ukraine, but in an evolutionary rather than revolutionary fashion. While tactical innovation a...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
