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Aaron Nasi Joins CNAS Board of Advisors
Washington, D.C., May 29, 2024 — The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to welcome Aaron Nasi to its Board of Advisors. “We are delighted to have Aaron Nasi...
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New CNAS Report Assesses U.S.-China Competition in Quantum Computing
Report warns that U.S. quantum leadership is at risk without action to secure the nation’s quantum supply chain and workforce pipeline Washington, May 28, 2024 — Today, the C...
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Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms
“This is a big shift,” says Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security , a Washington, DC, think tank. She says that the US military has so fa...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Russia Steps Up a Covert Sabotage Campaign Aimed at Europe
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a former U.S. intelligence official, said Russia’s plan might be to weaken European resolve. While that outcome may be doubtful, she said it was importa...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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America’s New Island Fighters Are Preparing for Conflict—a Stone’s Throw From Taiwan
If China moved to invade Taiwan, American forces would want to shift some U.S. warplanes to these sites. The idea would be to disperse U.S. aircraft across an array of bases a...
By Becca Wasser
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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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Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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America’s New Island Fighters Are Preparing for Conflict—a Stone’s Throw From Taiwan
By Becca Wasser
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Differentiating Innovation: From Performance Art to Production Scale
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How The U.S. Failed To Meet the China Challenge
It’s a rare subject of bipartisan agreement that China is the greatest strategic challenge facing the U.S., perhaps the greatest it has ever faced. And yet, despite a decade o...
By Richard Fontaine & Robert Blackwill
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Addressing a Human Rights and Looming Terrorism Crisis in Afghanistan
By Lisa Curtis & Annie Pforzheimer
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Putin and Xi plot sanction resistance
By Jacob Stokes
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How The U.S. Failed To Meet the China Challenge
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Air Force General in Charge of Special Operations Command Nominated to Head Service Academy
While Bauernfeind's tenure at AFSOC has been less than the typical two years, it's not uncommon for the Air Force to move around its limited number of three-star generals into...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Losing a Foot Never Held Her Back, Until She Tried to Join the Military
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Army on track to meet lower recruiting goal, Navy may fall short
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Air Force General in Charge of Special Operations Command Nominated to Head Service Academy
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Georgia's Democracy Crisis
On 14 May Georgia’s parliament passed a controversial law that requires media and nonprofit groups to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive m...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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Russia Steps Up a Covert Sabotage Campaign Aimed at Europe
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Brussels Sprouts Presents: A Discussion with the Swedish and Estonian Ministers of Defense
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Kate Johnston, Pål Jonson & Hanno Pevkur
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Georgia's Democracy Crisis
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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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What to Expect from Israel’s Rafah Offensive
By Jonathan Lord
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Biden’s grand bargain between Saudi Arabia and Israel hangs by a thread
By Jonathan Lord
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Biden Hasn’t Abandoned Israel, He’s Learning to Speak Like an Israeli
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Everyone Loves Tariffs!
Welcome to Derisky Business! On this episode, we discuss the Biden administration’s recent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, batteries, solar panels, and other goods. Divi...
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz & Adam Tong
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Outbound Investment Controls in a U.S. Economic Security Strategy
By Emily Kilcrease
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Greenback Warfare: The Treasury Department’s Approach to Global Economic Security
By Alex Zerden
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Everyone Loves Tariffs!
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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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The Quest for Qubits
By Sam Howell
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Simple drones, complex problems
By Samuel Bendett
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To Win the Chip War, the U.S. Must Prioritize Revolutionary Research
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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