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Disorderly Conduct
Emily Kilcrease, Adam Tong | June 26, 2024
Swarms over the Strait
Stacie Pettyjohn, Hannah Dennis, Molly Campbell | June 20, 2024
Back to the Drafting Board
Katherine L. Kuzminski, Taren Sylvester | June 18, 2024
Catalyzing Crisis
Bill Drexel, Caleb Withers | June 11, 2024
Energy, Economics & Security
Disorderly Conduct
The United States must develop a strong, pragmatic strategy for advancing its economic and security interests within the U.S.-China economic relationship, accounting for the f...
Defense
Swarms over the Strait
Executive Summary Drones have transformed battlefields in Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Ukraine, but in a companion report, Evolution Not Revolution: Drone Warfare in Russia’s ...
Military, Veterans & Society
Back to the Drafting Board
Executive Summary For the first time since the Cold War, the United States faces threats from great power competitors. These advanced threats—particularly the pacing threat of...
Technology & National Security
Catalyzing Crisis
Executive Summary The arrival of ChatGPT in November 2022 initiated both great excitement and fear around the world about the potential and risks of artificial intelligence (A...
HIGH STAKES
High Stakes: Preparing the Next President is a new election-year initiative to explore the most pressing national security issues that will face the next administration.
CNAS 2024 National Security Conference: High Stakes
Jun 6, 2024
Indo-Pacific Security
The Axis of Upheaval
The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
Technology & National Security
The Quest for Qubits
Executive Summary The United Nations General Assembly recently declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.1 Quantum information science, a field on...
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NATO summit becomes high-stakes test of Biden’s fitness
President Biden’s fitness for office will be put to the test this week during the NATO summit he is hosting in Washington, a high-stakes endurance test that gives the presiden...
By Jim Townsend
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CNAS Responds: 2024 NATO Summit in Washington
This week, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will meet in Washington, D.C. to make key decisions on strengthening its defense amid heightened security stakes. Alon...
By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Peter Schroeder, Katherine L. Kuzminski & Nicholas Lokker
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New CNAS Report Explores How U.S.-China Competition Upended the International Economic Order and What the United States Can Do to Fix It
Washington, June 26, 2024 — Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, Disorderly Conduct: How U.S.-China Competition Upended the Internationa...
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US defence industry faces uncertainty despite production ‘boomlet’
"It is not quite a bonanza" for missiles and munitions "but it is, for the first time in a long time, a significant uptick in this area that has been sustained", said Stacie P...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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War with Hezbollah ‘lies in Israel’s hands’
It’s unclear whether Hezbollah would agree to any peace deal with Israel. But Netanyahu doesn’t want to pull out of Gaza: He seemingly rejected the cease-fire proposal that’s ...
By Jonathan Lord
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US defence industry faces uncertainty despite production ‘boomlet’
"It is not quite a bonanza" for missiles and munitions "but it is, for the first time in a long time, a significant uptick in this area that has been sustained", said Stacie P...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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US Needs Longer-Range Drones for Potential China-Taiwan Conflict: Think Tank
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Swarms over the Strait
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Hannah Dennis & Molly Campbell
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US defence industry faces uncertainty despite production ‘boomlet’
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Deal or no deal: What Trump 2.0 could mean for our nuclear submarines
Many other analysts are significantly more optimistic about the prospects for AUKUS under Trump. “There are grounds to worry about what Trump might do if he were back in offic...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden-Trump debate: Where they stand on Indo-Pacific and Quad
By Lisa Curtis
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Next UN Afghanistan Talks in Doha Must Hold Taliban to Account on Human Rights
By Lisa Curtis
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Deal or no deal: What Trump 2.0 could mean for our nuclear submarines
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Should women be drafted? Congress weighs the question yet again
Kate Kuzminski, director of the Center for New American Security’s program on Military, Veterans & Society said various members of Congress has attempted to add women to t...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Back to the Drafting Board
By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Taren Sylvester
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The Army's Recruiting Problem Is Male
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Should women be drafted? Congress weighs the question yet again
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NATO summit becomes high-stakes test of Biden’s fitness
President Biden’s fitness for office will be put to the test this week during the NATO summit he is hosting in Washington, a high-stakes endurance test that gives the presiden...
By Jim Townsend
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NATO and the EU Need to Get Real on Ukrainian Membership
By Nicholas Lokker
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Kurt Volker and Douglas Lute Discuss the Upcoming NATO Washington Summit
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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NATO summit becomes high-stakes test of Biden’s fitness
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War with Hezbollah ‘lies in Israel’s hands’
It’s unclear whether Hezbollah would agree to any peace deal with Israel. But Netanyahu doesn’t want to pull out of Gaza: He seemingly rejected the cease-fire proposal that’s ...
By Jonathan Lord
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Senate Dems stew over Biden’s military sale to Israel
By Jonathan Lord
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Israel’s War of Regime Change Is Repeating America’s Mistakes
By Richard Fontaine, Meghan L. O'Sullivan & David H. Petraeus
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War with Hezbollah ‘lies in Israel’s hands’
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How U.S.-China Competition Upended the International Economic Order and What the United States Can Do to Fix It
On June 26, CNAS hosted an event to discuss a new report, Disorderly Conduct: How U.S.-China Competition Upended the International Economic Order and What the United States Ca...
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz, Adam Tong & Peter Harrell
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Sanctions by the Numbers: 2023 Year in Review
By Rowan Scarpino & Jocelyn Trainer
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How to regulate smart, not dumb, with Alan Estevez
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz & Alan Estevez
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How U.S.-China Competition Upended the International Economic Order and What the United States Can Do to Fix It
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Catalyzing Crisis
Executive Summary The arrival of ChatGPT in November 2022 initiated both great excitement and fear around the world about the potential and risks of artificial intelligence (A...
By Bill Drexel & Caleb Withers
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Nvidia’s New Sales Booster: The Global Push for National AI Champions
By Pablo Chavez
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Open Source AI: The Overlooked National Security Imperative
By Keegan McBride
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Catalyzing Crisis
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Trump meets with Orbán, Saudis, Cameron as they prepare for his return
“Everyone is searching for clues as to what Trump would do if he got a second term,” said Richard Fontaine, a former State Department official and CEO of the Center for a New ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Will a FISA lapse cause a disaster? It depends on who you ask
By Carrie Cordero
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Trump Holds Series of Meetings With Foreign Leaders
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump meets with Orbán, Saudis, Cameron as they prepare for his return
