Reports

Buying Time

Discussions about defense strategy that focus on combat units and fail to account for logistics are irrelevant when it comes to understanding how well the United States can de...

By Chris Dougherty

April 13, 2023

Reports

India-China Border Tensions and U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific

India-China border intrusions and clashes have become more frequent and threaten to lead to all-out conflict between the two Asian giants. In recent years, China has upped the...

By Lisa Curtis & Derek Grossman

March 30, 2023

Reports

Middle East Security

Disarming the Bomb

Negotiations to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known commonly as the Iran nuclear deal, reached an impasse this past year. Further, Iran made parall...

By Jonathan Lord, Arona Baigal, Hunter Streling & LCDR Stewart Latwin

March 29, 2023

Reports

Peninsula Plus: Enhancing U.S.–South Korea Alliance Cooperation on China, Multilateralism, and Military and Security Technologies

The United States–Republic of Korea (ROK or South Korea) alliance has entered a critical phase. In 2023, the two countries will commemorate the 70th anniversary of signing the...

By Jacob Stokes & Joshua Fitt

March 15, 2023

Reports

Energy, Economics & Security

Against All Odds

Eighteen months after taking power, the Taliban is intensifying its repression of Afghan civil society and cracking down on the rights and freedoms of all Afghans, especially ...

By Lisa Curtis, Annie Pforzheimer & Jan Mohammad Jahid

March 9, 2023

Reports

Sanctions by the Numbers: SDN, CMIC, and Entity List Designations on China

The United States has progressively expanded the scope of sanctions and entity-based export controls on Chinese persons (i.e., individuals and entities), primarily through the...

By Emily Kilcrease & Michael Frazer

March 2, 2023

Reports

Democracy under Threat

In 1998, Viktor Orbán was elected the prime minister of Hungary in free and fair elections. He was supported by the Fidesz party—a movement he founded in 1988 that became a po...

By Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Joseph Wright, Jia Li, Carisa Nietsche, Nicholas Lokker & Nicolas Rice

February 28, 2023

Reports

Avoiding the Brink

The United States is entering an unprecedented multipolar nuclear era that is far more complex and challenging than that of the Cold War. This report examines potential trigge...

By Stacie Pettyjohn & Hannah Dennis

February 22, 2023

Reports

The Russia Stability Tracker

One year into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, it is evident that the Kremlin’s military capabilities have fallen far short of Putin’s political ambitions, r...

By Andrea Kendall-Taylor

February 17, 2023

Reports

Atomic Strait: How China’s Nuclear Buildup Shapes Security Dynamics with Taiwan and the United States

This report examines the intersection of China’s nuclear modernization and cross-Strait tensions, especially how they might play out during a crisis, contingency, or conflict ...

By Jacob Stokes

February 7, 2023

Reports

How Finnish and Swedish NATO Accession Could Shape the Future Russian Threat

About the Transatlantic Forum on Russia This policy brief is a product of the CNAS Transatlantic Forum on Russia, an initiative designed to spur coordination between the Unite...

By Nicholas Lokker, Jim Townsend, Heli Hautala & Andrea Kendall-Taylor

January 24, 2023

Reports

National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative

No I in Team

The United States faces a strategic landscape unlike anything it has encountered in its recent history. It faces a rising great power in China, a diminished but still dangerou...

By Stacie Pettyjohn & Becca Wasser

December 14, 2022

Reports

Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent Extremism in the Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Communities

In recent years, the involvement of currently serving military members and law enforcement officers, as well as veterans of those two professions, in domestic violent extremis...

By Carrie Cordero, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Arona Baigal & Josh Campbell

December 6, 2022

Reports

Supporting Russian Civil Society

Since Russia re-invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, repression inside Russia has worsened. The trend toward greater repression predates Moscow’s unprovoked invasion. The Kre...

By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Maria Snegovaya

December 1, 2022

Reports

National Security Human Capital Program

Precision and Posture: Defense Spending Trends and the FY23 Budget Request

This report examines the fiscal year (FY) 2023 defense budget request and assesses whether it sufficiently resources what was known of the Biden administration’s national defe...

By Stacie Pettyjohn & Hannah Dennis

November 17, 2022

Reports

Greater San Antonio Military & Veteran Family Needs Assessment

This needs assessment examines issues facing the Greater San Antonio military community—its military personnel, military families, veterans, and veterans’ families. In additio...

By Nathalie Grogan, Katherine L. Kuzminski & Celina Pouchet

November 10, 2022

Reports

Energy, Economics & Security

U.S.-ROK Strategy for Enhancing Cooperation on Combating and Deterring Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime

The May 2022 U.S.-ROK Summit between President Joe Biden and President Yoon Suk-yeol revitalized previous bilateral commitments to establish a joint cyber working group to add...

By Jason Bartlett

November 9, 2022

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