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NATO and the EU Need to Get Real on Ukrainian Membership
Commentary
At NATO’s landmark 75th anniversary summit in Washington, a key issue on the agenda will be the nature of the alliance’s commitment to Ukraine’s future membership. Following v...
By Nicholas Lokker
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Around the Table with Taren Sylvester
Around the Table is a three-question interview series from the Make Room email newsletter. Each edition features a conversation with a peer in the national security community ...
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Israel’s War of Regime Change Is Repeating America’s Mistakes
Israel should begin planning not only for taking on such responsibilities but also for later handing them off to Palestinians....
By Richard Fontaine, Meghan L. O'Sullivan & David H. Petraeus
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NATO’s Missing Pillar
It is commonly assumed that NATO was built on U.S. power, but in fact the commitment to collective security emerged in Europe first....
By Jim Townsend, Sean Monaghan & Mathieu Droin
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Obama tried to pivot to Asia in 2011. We must succeed this time.
This article, originally published in The Washington Post, is an excerpt from Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power. In 2011, President Barack Obama ...
By Richard Fontaine & Robert Blackwill
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Next UN Afghanistan Talks in Doha Must Hold Taliban to Account on Human Rights
The United Nations is preparing to host its third meeting of international envoys to Afghanistan in Doha later this month. This is a promising initiative aimed at developing a...
By Lisa Curtis
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Open Source AI: The Overlooked National Security Imperative
Now a global technological superpower, China does not want to repeat the mistakes of its past and is actively positioning itself to be the world’s AI leader....
By Keegan McBride
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Sharper: High Stakes
High Stakes: Preparing the Next President is CNAS’s new election-year initiative to explore the most pressing national security issues that will face the next administration. ...
By Anna Pederson
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To Win the Chip War, the U.S. Must Prioritize Revolutionary Research
Taking big bets on moonshot technologies is the only approach that can sustain Moore’s law and guarantee that the United States continues to lead in the technologies of tomorr...
By Jordan Schneider, Arrian Ebrahimi & Chris Miller
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Differentiating Innovation: From Performance Art to Production Scale
The Department of Defense has an innovation problem, and it’s not the one you are probably thinking about. Certainly, the Department needs to improve its ability to move with ...
By Andrew Metrick
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Around the Table with Anthony Cho
Around the Table is a three-question interview series from the Make Room email newsletter. Each edition features a conversation with a peer in the national security community ...
By Anthony Cho
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Tort Law and Frontier AI Governance
The development and deployment of highly capable, general-purpose frontier AI systems—such as GPT-4, Gemini, Llama 3, Claude 3, and beyond—will likely produce major societal b...
By Markus Anderljung
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Greenback Warfare: The Treasury Department’s Approach to Global Economic Security
Rumors about the demise of the U.S. dollar remain premature....
By Alex Zerden
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The Pentagon Isn’t Buying Enough Ammo
Even in today’s constrained budget environment, the U.S. Defense Department needs to do more to prioritize munitions buys and prove it has learned the lessons of Ukraine....
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Hannah Dennis
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Biden Hasn’t Abandoned Israel, He’s Learning to Speak Like an Israeli
To Israel’s leaders, Joe Biden has learned to speak dugri....
By Jonathan Lord
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Sharper: Nuclear Deterrence
The United States faces two determined near-peer competitors with robust conventional military forces and increasingly advanced nuclear arsenals. In the Indo-Pacific, the Peop...
By Philip Sheers, Anna Pederson & Alexa Whaley
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America’s China Strategy Has a Credibility Problem
An effective U.S. sanctions strategy should play to U.S. strengths in the financial sector while reserving the most severe measures for acute crises or conflicts....
By Emily Kilcrease
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Countering China’s Red Dragon over the South China Sea
There is little doubt that China’s maritime power has grown over the last several decades, with its fleet expected to reach 400 surface combatants by 2025. As they have develo...
By LCDR Thelmar A. Rosarda & Nathaniel Schochet
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The Real Cost of Reimposing Sanctions on Venezuela
Last month, the Biden administration announced that sanctions relief on Venezuela would not be renewed. Reinstating the sanctions that were temporarily lifted in October was a...
By Rowan Scarpino
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Uncrewed but Confident: Forging New Rules of the Road to Avoid Accidental Escalation
Air and maritime uncrewed platforms in the Indo-Pacific may be a promising area for developing new confidence-building measures....
By Tom Shugart