Featured Reports
Stuck in the Cul-de-Sac
Carlton Haelig, Philip Sheers | October 21, 2025
Countering the Digital Silk Road
Vivek Chilukuri, Ruby Scanlon | October 15, 2025
Tipping the Scales
Caleb Withers | September 23, 2025
Countering the Swarm
Stacie Pettyjohn, Molly Campbell | September 10, 2025
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Stuck in the Cul-de-Sac
For more than a decade, the United States has sought to modernize its military to deter China, but it has become stuck in a developmental cul-de-sac that has allowed China to ...
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Countering the Digital Silk Road
The year 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the Digital Silk Road (DSR), China’s effort to strengthen its global ties and influence through technology. In the decade since the...
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Tipping the Scales
This report examines how emerging AI capabilities could disrupt the cyber offense-defense balance....
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Countering the Swarm
After decades of air dominance and a near monopoly on precision strike, the United States now faces a dramatically different, more hostile world as the proliferation of cheap ...
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.
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CNAS 2025 National Security Conference | America's Edge: Forging the Future
Jun 3, 2025
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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...
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Global Swing States and the New Great Power Competition
International politics is undergoing a period of rapid, significant change. China and Russia are working together more closely and alongside Iran and North Korea...
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
VA Awards Disability Benefits Using Criteria from 80 Years Ago, Federal Watchdog FindsA federal watchdog warned lawmakers that the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to fully revise the 80-year-old criteria for awarding disability payments or risk miscalculat...
By Kyleanne Hunter
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Trump Signals He’ll Hold off Another Attack on Iran for Now
In The News
President Donald Trump indicated that he might hold off on attacking Iran for now after saying he was reassured by sources “on the other side” that the government in Tehran wo...
By Becca Wasser
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How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler
In The News
Just after midnight on January 3rd, as American commandos surged into Caracas to seize President Nicolás Maduro, large sections of the city went dark. Blackouts are common in ...
By Richard Fontaine
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2025 Proved the Case for Drone Defense
In The News
As mass-produced strike and FPV drones reshape battlefields from Ukraine to the Red Sea, the United States is scrambling to bend the cost curve, scale affordable interceptors,...
By Samuel Bendett
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Military Experts Reject Trump’s Logic That U.S. Must Own Greenland to Defend It
In The News
President Trump’s assertion that the U.S. must own Greenland to expand its defenses there runs counter to decades of policy and undermines the deterrence of its global network...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense & Aerospace Air Power Podcast: Global View
In a week when airpower news came from every angle, Becca Wasser, CNAS adjunct senior fellow, was on top of it all. She leads defense research at Bloomberg Economics, and we c...
By Becca Wasser
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Trump Signals He’ll Hold off Another Attack on Iran for Now
By Becca Wasser
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Balance of Power: Powell Probe Sparks GOP Backlash
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Defense & Aerospace Air Power Podcast: Global View
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America Must Salvage Its Relationship With India
The longer the current crisis lasts, the harder it will be to restore the relationship and the more likely it is that the two countries will lose an entire generation of progr...
By Richard Fontaine & Lisa Curtis
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
AI and Policy, Both Foreign and DomesticBy Janet Egan
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25% Tariff Threat Torments Tehran: What Will Be Trump’s Next Step? Experts Weigh In
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America Must Salvage Its Relationship With India
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National Security Human Capital Program
VA Awards Disability Benefits Using Criteria from 80 Years Ago, Federal Watchdog FindsA federal watchdog warned lawmakers that the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to fully revise the 80-year-old criteria for awarding disability payments or risk miscalculat...
By Kyleanne Hunter
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National Security Human Capital Program
Dot Gov ’26: The Departments of Defense and Veteran AffairsBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program
The Military Is Running Out of Teenagers to Recruit — And Old-School Methods to Reach Them Are FailingBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Europe's Defense Dilemma
Since the invasion of Ukraine, European states have taken major steps to rebuild their defense industrial bases, both to supply Ukraine and to rebuild their own militaries. Eu...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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There’s Nothing the U.S. ‘Can’t Do’ in Push to Control Greenland, Says Retired General
By Philip Breedlove
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The Donroe Doctrine? Venezuela, Greenland, and America's New Agenda
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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Europe's Defense Dilemma
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What’s Behind the Protests in Iran?
Anti-government protests in Iran that started over the country's economic situation have continued for a third week. "The Daily Report" breaks down who and what's behind the d...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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Trump Promises Oil Executives ‘Total Safety’ If They Invest in Venezuela
By Rachel Ziemba
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Lebanon Is Disarming Hezbollah. The U.S. and Israel Can Do More to Help.
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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What’s Behind the Protests in Iran?
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U.S.-China Competition Accelerates Across the Tech Stack
This article was originally published in Just Security. Over the course of 2025, the United States and China rapidly escalated trade and tech restrictions toward each other, t...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Fortress North America: Mexico’s Role in Securing the Region’s Economic Future
By Diego Marroquín Bitar
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It’s Complicated...
By Jeff Mahon & Wolfgang Alschner
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U.S.-China Competition Accelerates Across the Tech Stack
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Insights | Unpacking the H200 Export PolicyAI Chips for China With two new policies, President Donald Trump has implemented his pledge to allow sales of NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips to China in exchange for a quarter of the ...
By Janet Egan & James Sanders
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
AI and Policy, Both Foreign and DomesticBy Janet Egan
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Technology & National Security
Quantum Computing’s Industrial ChallengeBy Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Legal Questions Remain After U.S. Capture of MaduroCNAS senior fellow and general counsel Carrie Cordero joined CNN to discuss the arrest and capture of Venezuelan leader Maduro, legal issues surrounding the military campaign ...
By Carrie Cordero
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Nicolás Maduro Indictment ImplicationsBy Carrie Cordero
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
U.S. Intervention in VenezuelaBy Carrie Cordero
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How the U.S. and South Africa Could Use the G20 to Plot a Path Forward
In the contest for the future of global order, South Africa’s choices will have a disproportionate impact on the outcome....
By Richard Fontaine & Gibbs McKinley
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Losing the Swing States
By Richard Fontaine & Gibbs McKinley
- New CNAS Report Argues Six “Global Swing States” Will Shape the New Great Power Competition
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How the U.S. and South Africa Could Use the G20 to Plot a Path Forward
