Featured Reports
Sanctions by the Numbers: Comparing the Trump and Biden Administrations’ Sanctions and Export Controls on China
Eleanor Hume, Rowan Scarpino | October 23, 2024
Integration for Innovation
Michael Brown, Ellen Lord, Andrew Metrick, Robert O. Work | September 25, 2024
The China-Russia Entente in East Asia
Jacob Stokes, Evan Wright, Nathaniel Schochet | September 26, 2024
Building the Future Capital Campaign
May 22, 2024
Energy, Economics & Security
Sanctions by the Numbers: Comparing the Trump and Biden Administrations’ Sanctions and Export Controls on China
Executive Summary The Biden administration has exceeded the Trump administration in the number of financial sanctions and entity-based export controls placed on Chinese person...
Defense
Integration for Innovation
Executive Summary In August 2023, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks made a clear case that the Department of Defense (DoD) must do better in “creat[ing] and exploit[i...
Indo-Pacific Security
The China-Russia Entente in East Asia
Executive Summary Closer cooperation between China and Russia is a major force driving global geopolitics. But how relations between the two authoritarian powers are shaping s...
Building the Future Capital Campaign
In a world awash with challenges, the demand for the Center’s work has never been greater than today. The new campaign will ensure that CNAS can fulfill its critical mission n...
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.
Indo-Pacific Security
The Axis of Upheaval
The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
Leading the Free World
The United States has led the free world for eight decades, helping to usher in an era of unprecedented human flourishing. For much of that period, democracies expanded in num...
Middle East Security
Virtual Event | Confronting the Axis of Upheaval
Sep 20, 2024
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China Built a $50 Billion Military Stronghold in the South China Sea
In The News
Hainan, a palm-fringed island known as China’s Hawaii, sits in the warm tropical waters of the South China Sea east of Vietnam. It’s a popular tourist destination with soft-sa...
By Tom Shugart
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Ukraine Rolls Out Dozens of AI Systems to Help Its Drones Hit Targets
In The News
KYIV, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine is using dozens of domestically made AI-augmented systems for its drones to reach targets on the battlefield without being piloted, a senior o...
By Samuel Bendett
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American Drone Startup Notches Rare Victory in Ukraine
In The News
Above a battlefield littered with failed American drones, California startup Shield AI notched an important victory in Ukraine. The company in August became a rare Western sup...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Efforts to Contain Xi’s Push for Tech Supremacy Are Faltering
In The News
Since Donald Trump hit Xi Jinping’s government with punitive tariffs in 2018, his push to cut the trade deficit has snowballed into a full-scale bipartisan effort to stop Chin...
By Jordan Schneider
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DoD Program Makes It Easier to Enlist with ADHD, Asthma, Other Medical Conditions
In The News
More than 5,600 people with previously disqualifying medical conditions have been allowed to enlist in the military without having to get a waiver under a pilot program, a def...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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American Drone Startup Notches Rare Victory in Ukraine
Above a battlefield littered with failed American drones, California startup Shield AI notched an important victory in Ukraine. The company in August became a rare Western sup...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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China Built a $50 Billion Military Stronghold in the South China Sea
By Tom Shugart
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A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Does the Pentagon.
By Becca Wasser
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American Drone Startup Notches Rare Victory in Ukraine
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China Built a $50 Billion Military Stronghold in the South China Sea
Hainan, a palm-fringed island known as China’s Hawaii, sits in the warm tropical waters of the South China Sea east of Vietnam. It’s a popular tourist destination with soft-sa...
By Tom Shugart
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U.S. Efforts to Contain Xi’s Push for Tech Supremacy Are Faltering
By Jordan Schneider
- CNAS Launches New Initiative with Support from the Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation on “Realizing the Potential of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership”
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China Built a $50 Billion Military Stronghold in the South China Sea
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DoD Program Makes It Easier to Enlist with ADHD, Asthma, Other Medical Conditions
More than 5,600 people with previously disqualifying medical conditions have been allowed to enlist in the military without having to get a waiver under a pilot program, a def...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Episode 7: Kate Kuzminski, CNAS
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Army Ups Recruiting Goal to 61,000 Soldiers in 2025, an 11% Jump
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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DoD Program Makes It Easier to Enlist with ADHD, Asthma, Other Medical Conditions
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Ukraine Rolls Out Dozens of AI Systems to Help Its Drones Hit Targets
KYIV, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine is using dozens of domestically made AI-augmented systems for its drones to reach targets on the battlefield without being piloted, a senior o...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine Allies Face Limited Options Over North Korea Troops
By Richard Fontaine
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Russia and the Rise of BRICS
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Kate Johnston
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Ukraine Rolls Out Dozens of AI Systems to Help Its Drones Hit Targets
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“The Ayatollah Has No Clothes” – with Rich Goldberg and Richard Fontaine
Richard Fontaine is CEO of the Center for American Security, joins Call Me Back to assess the threat FROM Iran and the threat TO Iran. Listen to the full episode on Call Me ...
By Richard Fontaine
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How Israel Tries to Destroy Hezbollah’s Financial Network
By Jonathan Lord
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What Does Yahya Sinwar’s Death Mean for the War in Gaza?
By Jonathan Lord
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“The Ayatollah Has No Clothes” – with Rich Goldberg and Richard Fontaine
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Sharper: Emerging Technology
Emerging technologies are reshaping U.S. economic competitiveness and national security. These technologies offer unprecedented opportunities for growth, but also introduce na...
By Hilal Aka & Charles Horn
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BONUS: Comparing China Sanctions Under Trump and Biden
By Emily Kilcrease & Eleanor Hume
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How Donald Trump Could Undermine the U.S. Dollar
By Edward Fishman
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Sharper: Emerging Technology
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Ukraine Rolls Out Dozens of AI Systems to Help Its Drones Hit Targets
KYIV, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine is using dozens of domestically made AI-augmented systems for its drones to reach targets on the battlefield without being piloted, a senior o...
By Samuel Bendett
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U.S. Efforts to Contain Xi’s Push for Tech Supremacy Are Faltering
By Jordan Schneider
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Sharper: Emerging Technology
By Hilal Aka & Charles Horn
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Ukraine Rolls Out Dozens of AI Systems to Help Its Drones Hit Targets
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Countering Election Falsehoods: Lessons from the Hurricanes
Give people the information they need to make an informed decision, and give it to them straight....
By Carrie Cordero
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How to Stop Rogue States Like Russia from Interfering in Our Politics
By Richard Fontaine
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Geopolitical Doomscrolling
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz & Carrie Cordero
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Countering Election Falsehoods: Lessons from the Hurricanes
