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American AI Companies Can’t Get Enough Chips
James Sanders, Janet Egan, Rory Madigan | May 07, 2026
Who Will Make Money on AI?
Geoffrey Gertz, Emily Kilcrease | May 05, 2026
Hit It with Your Best Shot
Emily Kilcrease | April 01, 2026
Repairing the Breach
Lisa Curtis, Keerthi Martyn, Sitara Gupta | March 26, 2026
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American AI Companies Can’t Get Enough Chips
Executive Summary In 2026, artificial intelligence (AI) chip production has become a binding constraint on the pace of the AI compute buildout. Demand for computing power to t...
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Who Will Make Money on AI?
Executive Summary The private sector is playing a leading role in advancing the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI). As a result, commercial incentives are likely to have...
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Hit It with Your Best Shot
Executive Summary America needs an economic pressure doctrine. The country is using economic pressure in more novel ways and at greater scale than any other time in the postwa...
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Repairing the Breach
U.S.-India relations stumbled badly during the second half of 2025. Differences between U.S. and Indian officials over how a ceasefire was reached between New Delhi and Islama...
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CNAS Insights | MATCHing Policy to Strategy
Advanced semiconductors underpin the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI). The computing power they provide drives military capability, economic productivity, ...
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CNAS Insights | American AI Exports Need a Sovereignty Solution
Earlier this month, the Department of Commerce opened applications for the American AI Exports Program, an ambitious effort to deploy American AI technology, tools, and infras...
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CNAS Insights | A Year After Liberation Day, Can Trump’s Trade Wars Be Salvaged?
As the trade wars have played out over the last year, the Trump administration has fumbled its opportunity....
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Ex-Nato Commander Breedlove: Iran Crisis Exposes a West ‘More Divided than Its Adversaries'For retired four-star General Philip Breedlove, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), the missing consultations are part of the problem. In an interview with R...
By Philip Breedlove
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China Looms Large in USTR Hearing on Structural Excess Capacity
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Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow and director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and a former USTR official, similarly con...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Military Will Now Prescreen Recruits for 28 Medical ConditionsKate Kuzminski, from the Center for New American Security, said the policy “doesn’t actually narrow the candidate pool, since anyone with the listed conditions would be disqua...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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CNAS Welcomes Adam Pritzker to Board of Directors
Washington, May 6, 2026 — The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the election of Adam Pritzker to the Center’s Board of Directors. He previously served ...
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A Potential AI Labor Lesson from ChinaChina’s labor market is already in a tough position, and AI threatens to make it worse. Deflation and general pessimism around economic opportunities have partly led the count...
By Ruby Scanlon
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Experts Make Their Picks for Acquisition Reform Litmus Tests
If the department cannot pass these easy tests, there is little reason to believe it will do well on the harder ones....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Rues State of Iran Talks, Says Prefer Not to Strike
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Leveraging the Defense Innovation Ecosystem for Maximum Effect
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Experts Make Their Picks for Acquisition Reform Litmus Tests
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U.S. Pauses ‘Project Freedom’ as Trump Seeks Way out of Hormuz Impasse
“If he settles for a narrow deal on the strait and postpone[s] the nuclear talks, the U.S. gives up the leverage generated by blockading Iranian ports. If he holds out for a m...
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How the War with Iran Is Shaping U.S.-Chinese Competition
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CNAS Insights | Trump Should Talk to Xi About Military AIBy Jacob Stokes & Daniel Remler
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U.S. Pauses ‘Project Freedom’ as Trump Seeks Way out of Hormuz Impasse
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Military Will Now Prescreen Recruits for 28 Medical ConditionsKate Kuzminski, from the Center for New American Security, said the policy “doesn’t actually narrow the candidate pool, since anyone with the listed conditions would be disqua...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Hegseth Accused of ‘Lying to the American Public’ About War in IranBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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What the New Draft Registration Rule Means for YouBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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A State of “Unorder?”
As conversations about the status of the liberal world order swirl in capitals on both sides of the Atlantic, many are realizing that old ways of thinking about the rules-base...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Ex-Nato Commander Breedlove: Iran Crisis Exposes a West ‘More Divided than Its Adversaries'By Philip Breedlove
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Rising Domestic Pressure in Russia?
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A State of “Unorder?”
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Ex-Nato Commander Breedlove: Iran Crisis Exposes a West ‘More Divided than Its Adversaries'For retired four-star General Philip Breedlove, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), the missing consultations are part of the problem. In an interview with R...
By Philip Breedlove
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UAE Exit from OPEC Signals Closer Alignment with U.S. Interests, Experts Say
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With War on Its Doorstep, Iraq Taps a Political Outsider to Become Prime Minister
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China Looms Large in USTR Hearing on Structural Excess Capacity
Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow and director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and a former USTR official, similarly con...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Who Will Make Money on AI?
By Geoffrey Gertz & Emily Kilcrease
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USTR Hearing on Section 301 Investigations into Structural Excess Capacity
By Emily Kilcrease
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China Looms Large in USTR Hearing on Structural Excess Capacity
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Technology & National Security
American AI Companies Can’t Get Enough ChipsExecutive Summary In 2026, artificial intelligence (AI) chip production has become a binding constraint on the pace of the AI compute buildout. Demand for computing power to t...
By James Sanders, Janet Egan & Rory Madigan
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Technology & National Security
Anthony Vinci on Turning Uncertainty Into Decisions With AI ForecastingBy Anthony Vinci
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Technology & National Security
A Potential AI Labor Lesson from ChinaBy Ruby Scanlon
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Modernize States’ Legislative Efforts on Unsanctioned Militias While Protecting Constitutional Rights
Matt Gimovsky is senior corporate counsel at Kroll and an Army JAG with active-duty experience in administrative law and with the trial defense service....
By Matt Gimovsky
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Blurring the Line
By Mark Nevitt
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Five “Blockades” and One Legal Problem: Naval Enforcement in the U.S.–Iran Conflict
By Mark Nevitt
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Modernize States’ Legislative Efforts on Unsanctioned Militias While Protecting Constitutional Rights
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CNAS Insights | Why the “Swing States” Approach Is Right for Africa
Africa watchers in Washington, D.C., were dispirited—though not surprised—when an email calling the continent “a peripheral—rather than a core theater for US interest” recentl...
By Gibbs McKinley
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How the U.S. and South Africa Could Use the G20 to Plot a Path Forward
By Richard Fontaine & Gibbs McKinley
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Losing the Swing States
By Richard Fontaine & Gibbs McKinley
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CNAS Insights | Why the “Swing States” Approach Is Right for Africa
