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ReportsBeyond the San Hai
The United States has enjoyed largely uncontested naval supremacy across the blue waters, or open oceans, for decades. The rapid emergence of an increasingly global People’s L...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper, Harry Krejsa, Alexander Sullivan & Rush Doshi
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ReportsExtending American Power
Foreword by Robert Kagan and James P. Rubin Over the past year, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) brought together an extraordinary group of scholars, practitione...
By Amb. Eric S. Edelman, James B. Steinberg, Julianne Smith, Kurt Campbell, Michèle Flournoy, Richard Fontaine, James P. Rubin, Stephen J. Hadley, Dr. Robert Kagan & Robert Zoellick
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Reports#Virtual Caliphate
Many policymakers, intelligence analysts, and academics believe expelling the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from Mosul and Raqqah is the key to t...
By General Joseph L. Votel, LTC Christina Bembenek, Charles Hans, Jeffery Mouton & Amanda Spencer
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ReportsThe Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
The next president will inherit a relationship with Russia fraught with more tension than at any point since the Cold War. Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine sparked fear that ...
By Julianne Smith & Adam Twardowski
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CNAS Commentary: Can the U.S.-Philippine Alliance Endure Duterte?
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is continuing his anti-American campaign with two latest bombshell statements, first calling for the fewer than 200 American Special Opera...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin & Anthony Cho
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Worries about Trump’s Generals Are Overblown
It seems that President Trump’s reliance upon retired and active-duty generals in staffing the upper echelons of his administration has raised concerns among a large number of...
By Adam Routh & Jerry Hendrix
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5 Ways America Can Defend Itself from 'Nonphysical' Attacks
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin & Harry Krejsa
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No, Trump Didn't Botch the Puerto Rico Crisis
By Jerry Hendrix
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Worries about Trump’s Generals Are Overblown
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Uncle Sam is here to stay
Speaking at the sixth Maritime Institute of Malaysia South China Sea Conference, Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia Pacific Security Programme at CNAS (Centre for ...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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What the U.S. is actually getting right on North Korea
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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Mattis Discloses Part of Afghanistan Battle Plan, but It Hasn’t Yet Been Carried Out
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Uncle Sam is here to stay
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CNAS Commentary: Prospects for a Defense Budget Deal
Washington, October 6 – With Congress on the hook to pass a budget for the coming year and the prospect that budget instability could do real harm to U.S. national security, C...
By Susanna Blume
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Women in National Security: Kimberly Jackson
By Kimberly Jackson
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CARE: Humanitarian Aid Cuts & National Security
By Michèle Flournoy
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CNAS Commentary: Prospects for a Defense Budget Deal
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National Competition in Artificial Intelligence
Vladimir Putin recently said that whoever leads in artificial intelligence "will be ruler of the world." Elon Musk has warned that national competition in AI is the "most like...
By Paul Scharre & Neal Urwitz
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Report: Russia Continues to Use Nuclear Threats to Intimidate Neighbors
By Richard Fontaine
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Merkel Will Spend the Next Four Years Battling Forces at Home
By Julianne Smith
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National Competition in Artificial Intelligence
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CNAS Press Note: President Trump’s Plan Not to Certify Iranian Compliance with JCPOA
Washington, October 11 – With President Trump slated to give a speech in which he is expected to say he will not certify Iran’s compliance with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Pl...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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If Trump Won’t Certify the Nuke Deal, He Should Do This Instead
By Ilan Goldenberg & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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In picking fight with Sen. Bob Corker, Trump risks agenda
By Ilan Goldenberg
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CNAS Press Note: President Trump’s Plan Not to Certify Iranian Compliance with JCPOA
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CNAS Press Note: President Trump’s Plan Not to Certify Iranian Compliance with JCPOA
Washington, October 11 – With President Trump slated to give a speech in which he is expected to say he will not certify Iran’s compliance with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Pl...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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If Trump Won’t Certify the Nuke Deal, He Should Do This Instead
By Ilan Goldenberg & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The best course of action for Congress on Iran? Do nothing
By Peter Harrell
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CNAS Press Note: President Trump’s Plan Not to Certify Iranian Compliance with JCPOA
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Army Prepares for Complex, Lethal Battlefields of the Future
Tomorrow’s battlefields will be wrought with new adversaries, challenges and technologies, military leaders and experts have said.In a recently released report, “The Operation...
By Paul Scharre
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The Effect of New Technologies on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament: Artificial Intelligence, Hypersonic Technology and Outer Space
By Paul Scharre
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Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
By Paul Scharre
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Army Prepares for Complex, Lethal Battlefields of the Future
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The Collapsing Battlespace: NATO–Russian Nuclear Stability in an Era of Technological Upheaval
The military-technological environment has always been in a state of flux. But today, it is changing faster and in more ways than ever before. A series of new military technol...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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Drones Podcast Series: Military and Non-State Actor Uses of Commercial Drones
By Jeremy Hsu, Paul Scharre & Alexandra Sander
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The Coming Drone Wars: A Headache in the Making for American Foreign Policy
By Paul Scharre
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The Collapsing Battlespace: NATO–Russian Nuclear Stability in an Era of Technological Upheaval
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'We are on a tightrope': Trump poised to walk away from Iran nuclear deal
If Donald Trump decides this week to withdraw his endorsement of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, its fate and the potential for a major conflict will be determined by a complex ba...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump has a point on trade, however small
By Harry Krejsa
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'One hand tied behind your back': Why DoD's empty policy chair matters
By Michèle Flournoy
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'We are on a tightrope': Trump poised to walk away from Iran nuclear deal
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Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class
Washington, October 4 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) congratulates three Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship alumni who were named as 2017–20...
By Neal Urwitz
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Drone Proliferation
By Elisa Catalano Ewers, Lauren Fish, Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class