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From Production Lines to Front Lines
Becca Wasser, Philip Sheers | April 03, 2025
Assessing China’s Nuclear Decision-Making
Jacob Stokes | March 18, 2025
Promethean Rivalry
Bill Drexel | April 22, 2025
Countering the Digital Silk Road: Brazil
Ruby Scanlon, Bill Drexel | April 24, 2025
Defense
From Production Lines to Front Lines
Executive Summary The U.S. defense industrial base (DIB) is struggling to meet the demands of the current strategic environment—let alone prepare for a potential conflict agai...
Indo-Pacific Security
Assessing China’s Nuclear Decision-Making
China’s rapid nuclear buildup is raising questions about how the country makes decisions related to nuclear weapons. This policy brief analyzes that trend by presenting three ...
Technology & National Security
Promethean Rivalry
Executive Summary Just as nuclear weapons revolutionized 20th-century geopolitics, artificial intelligence (AI) is primed to transform 21st-century power dynamics—with world l...
Technology & National Security
Countering the Digital Silk Road: Brazil
Project Overview This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Digital Silk Road (DSR), China’s ambitious initiative to shape critical digital infrastructure around the world to...
AMERICA'S EDGE
The United States faces a rapidly changing global security landscape. Evolving technology, shifting alliances, and emerging threats require America to harness bold, innovative approaches. The CNAS 2025 national security conference, America’s Edge: Forging the Future, will bring together bipartisan leaders, policymakers, and industry to chart a vision for enhancing America’s global edge.
CNAS 2025 National Security Conference | America's Edge: Forging the Future
Jun 3, 2025
The First 100 Days
The First 100 Days is a series of recommendations from CNAS experts. The recommendations span the most pressing issues that will test the administration, including competition...
Set the Tone, Establish Policy, Hire Personnel—And Prepare for Crisis
President Donald Trump enters office at a critical moment and faces multiple crises...
Press
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Trump Faces $2 Trillion Hurdle to Win Money From Saudi Prince
In The News
US President Donald Trump’s hopes of securing as much as $1 trillion in investment commitments from Saudi Arabia might clash with another costly ambition - transforming the ki...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Is AI the Future of America’s Foreign Policy? Some Experts Think So
In The News
While in recent years AI tools have moved into foreign ministries around the world to aid with routine diplomatic chores, such as speech-writing, those systems are now increas...
By Andrew Moore
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Air Force Delay on Separation and Retirement Orders Isn’t ‘Stop Loss,’ Defense Official Says
Even though the Air Force has temporarily stopped issuing retirement and separation orders for next year, the pause does not require airmen to involuntarily remain in the serv...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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U.S.-China Agree on Trade Consultation Platform amid Sky-High Tariffs
In The News
The United States and China have agreed to establish a new platform for more tariff negotiations after two days of talks in Geneva, aimed at lowering trade tensions....
By Emily Kilcrease
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AI, Energy and Data Centres: How the UAE Has Approached Trump’s Second Term
In The News
Since US President Donald Trump returned to office this year, his administration has announced a series of partnerships and investments involving the UAE – and more could come...
By Rachel Ziemba
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"From Production Lines to Front Lines," with Becca Wasser and Philip Sheers of CNAS
In this episode of Building the Base, Hondo Geurts and Lauren Bedula are joined by Becca Wasser and Philip Sheers from the Center for New American Security (CNAS) to discuss t...
By Becca Wasser & Philip Sheers
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Trump Heads to Saudi Arabia Soon, Looking for a Repeat of His Trip in 2017
By Becca Wasser
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Lessons in Learning
By Josh Wallin
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"From Production Lines to Front Lines," with Becca Wasser and Philip Sheers of CNAS
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U.S.-China Agree on Trade Consultation Platform amid Sky-High Tariffs
The United States and China have agreed to establish a new platform for more tariff negotiations after two days of talks in Geneva, aimed at lowering trade tensions....
By Emily Kilcrease
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India’s Clash with Pakistan Sees Use of Chinese Missiles, French Jets, Israeli Drones, and More
By Lisa Curtis
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Trump and Vance Would Rather Stay out of It as India and Pakistan Spiral Towards War
By Lisa Curtis
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U.S.-China Agree on Trade Consultation Platform amid Sky-High Tariffs
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Air Force Delay on Separation and Retirement Orders Isn’t ‘Stop Loss,’ Defense Official Says
Even though the Air Force has temporarily stopped issuing retirement and separation orders for next year, the pause does not require airmen to involuntarily remain in the serv...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Gen. Allvin Outlines Air Force Moves to 'Revive Our Warrior Ethos and Rebuild Our Military'
By Taren Sylvester
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Disarray at Pentagon Puts Spotlight on Civilian Leadership’s Crucial Role
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Air Force Delay on Separation and Retirement Orders Isn’t ‘Stop Loss,’ Defense Official Says
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Putin Desperate to Maintain Fractured Relationship with Trump | Jim Townsend
Trump could push Putin further to "get on board" with a 30 day ceasefire as Russia grow more keen grow a relationship with the US, says Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for...
By Jim Townsend
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Canada and Carney’s New American Approach
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Elizabeth Anderson
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The Phony War: Ukraine and Russia’s Decoy Drones
By Samuel Bendett
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Putin Desperate to Maintain Fractured Relationship with Trump | Jim Townsend
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Trump Faces $2 Trillion Hurdle to Win Money From Saudi Prince
US President Donald Trump’s hopes of securing as much as $1 trillion in investment commitments from Saudi Arabia might clash with another costly ambition - transforming the ki...
By Rachel Ziemba
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AI, Energy and Data Centres: How the UAE Has Approached Trump’s Second Term
By Rachel Ziemba
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Iraq and Türkiye Ink Defence Deals As They Vow To Pressure Israel on Gaza
By Hamzeh Hadad
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Trump Faces $2 Trillion Hurdle to Win Money From Saudi Prince
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Trump Faces $2 Trillion Hurdle to Win Money From Saudi Prince
US President Donald Trump’s hopes of securing as much as $1 trillion in investment commitments from Saudi Arabia might clash with another costly ambition - transforming the ki...
By Rachel Ziemba
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AI, Energy and Data Centres: How the UAE Has Approached Trump’s Second Term
By Rachel Ziemba
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U.S.-China Agree on Trade Consultation Platform amid Sky-High Tariffs
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump Faces $2 Trillion Hurdle to Win Money From Saudi Prince
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Is AI the Future of America’s Foreign Policy? Some Experts Think So
While in recent years AI tools have moved into foreign ministries around the world to aid with routine diplomatic chores, such as speech-writing, those systems are now increas...
By Andrew Moore
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AI, Energy and Data Centres: How the UAE Has Approached Trump’s Second Term
By Rachel Ziemba
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Tariffs and Tech: An Uncertain Recipe
By Pablo Chavez
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Is AI the Future of America’s Foreign Policy? Some Experts Think So
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Sharper: Trump's First 100 Days
Donald Trump takes office in a complex and volatile global environment. Rising tensions with China, the continued war in Ukraine, and instability in the Middle East all pose s...
By Charles Horn
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Coordinate the Interagency to Counter Malign Foreign Influence
By Carrie Cordero
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The Clock Is Ticking on TikTok with Potential Ban Coming This Weekend
By Carrie Cordero
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Sharper: Trump's First 100 Days
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Developing Leaders to Promote Gender Integration
Diversity of lived experiences results in stronger leaders....
By Dr. Jeannette Gaudry Haynie & Dr. Kyleanne Hunter
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Sharper: America's National Security Workforce
By Emma Moore, Chris Estep & Cole Stevens
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Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update
By Emma Moore
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Developing Leaders to Promote Gender Integration
