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Sanctions by the Numbers: 2025 Year in Review

Eleanor Hume, Kyle Rutter | January 29, 2026

After the Deal

Delaney Soliday, Shivane Anand | December 16, 2025

Short Supply

Katherine L. Kuzminski, Taren Sylvester | December 11, 2025

Prepared, Not Paralyzed

Janet Egan, Spencer Michaels, Caleb Withers | November 20, 2025

Energy, Economics & Security
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2025 Year in Review

This installment of Sanctions by the Numbers examines the United States’ use of financial sanctions and entity-based export controls...

Middle East Security
After the Deal

Executive Summary More than two years have passed since the devastating October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas (a.k.a. Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Resista...

National Security Human Capital Program
Short Supply

Executive Summary The U.S. military faces a critical challenge: Fewer young Americans are willing to serve, and fewer adults are encouraging them to do so. Because of delibera...

Technology & National Security
Prepared, Not Paralyzed

Executive Summary The Trump administration has embraced a pro-innovation approach to artificial intelligence (AI) policy. Its AI Action Plan, released July 2025, underscores t...

CNAS INSIGHTS

CNAS Insights brings timely analysis and expert commentary to the most pressing topics in national security.

Energy, Economics & Security
CNAS Insights | Why the United States Needs Economic Coercion Doctrine

Economic tools now sit at the center of U.S. global competition. Sanctions, export controls, investment restrictions, and financial measures are employed with a frequency and ...

Technology & National Security
CNAS Insights | Unpacking the H200 Export Policy

AI 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 ...

CNAS Insights | The 2025 National Security Strategy

The White House recently released its long-awaited National Security Strategy (NSS), a document mandated by U.S. law since the mid-1980s. The NSS of the second Trump term prom...

Press

In The News

Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
How Long Can Taiwan Ride the AI Wave?
Taiwan’s exports hit an all-time high of US$640 billion in 2025, driven by insatiable global demand for its advanced semiconductors, servers, and other data center hardware us...

By J Travis Mosier
- Taiwan Business Topics
- February 10, 2026
In The News

Defense
Starlink Shutdown: Musk Throws Russian Forces Into Chaos
The Russian invasion force is in disarray following the deactivation of its Starlink satellite communications. Meanwhile Ukrainians are rushing to get their terminals whitelis...

By Samuel Bendett
- Forbes
- February 10, 2026
In The News

National Security Human Capital Program
Army to Be More Selective with Reenlistment Bonuses Under New Guidance
The Army is adjusting how it awards reenlistment bonuses, refining how incentive pay is awarded as it tries to keep high-performing soldiers in hard-to-fill roles....

By Katherine L. Kuzminski
- Military Times
- February 10, 2026
In The News

Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
The U.S. Army’s Quiet Rotation in the Philippines
The U.S. Army’s rotation in the Philippines is easy to overlook. Experts say that might be the point....

By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Stacie Pettyjohn
- Military Times
- February 10, 2026
In The News

Indo-Pacific Security
Deadly Insurgency Threatens a U.S. Plan to Invest in Pakistan’s Mineral Riches
The Trump administration in December said it would invest $1.25 billion in a restive, resource-rich province of Pakistan as part of a strategic effort to counter China’s domin...

By Lisa Curtis
- The Wall Street Journal
- February 10, 2026

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Defense
- Defense
  Starlink Shutdown: Musk Throws Russian Forces Into Chaos
  The Russian invasion force is in disarray following the deactivation of its Starlink satellite communications. Meanwhile Ukrainians are rushing to get their terminals whitelis...
  
  By Samuel Bendett
  - In The News
- Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
  The U.S. Army’s Quiet Rotation in the Philippines
  By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Stacie Pettyjohn
  - In The News
- Defense / Transatlantic Security
  A Wargame Shows Just How Vulnerable Europe Is to a Russian Attack
  By Franz-Stefan Gady
  - In The News
Indo-Pacific Security
- Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
  How Long Can Taiwan Ride the AI Wave?
  Taiwan’s exports hit an all-time high of US$640 billion in 2025, driven by insatiable global demand for its advanced semiconductors, servers, and other data center hardware us...
  
  By J Travis Mosier
  - In The News
- Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
  The U.S. Army’s Quiet Rotation in the Philippines
  By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Stacie Pettyjohn
  - In The News
- Indo-Pacific Security
  Deadly Insurgency Threatens a U.S. Plan to Invest in Pakistan’s Mineral Riches
  By Lisa Curtis
  - In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
- National Security Human Capital Program
  Army to Be More Selective with Reenlistment Bonuses Under New Guidance
  The Army is adjusting how it awards reenlistment bonuses, refining how incentive pay is awarded as it tries to keep high-performing soldiers in hard-to-fill roles....
  
  By Katherine L. Kuzminski
  - In The News
- Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
  The U.S. Army’s Quiet Rotation in the Philippines
  By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Stacie Pettyjohn
  - In The News
- National Security Human Capital Program
  Army Recruiting Waivers for Mental Health Will Be Approved at Lower Levels
  By Katherine L. Kuzminski
  - In The News
Transatlantic Security
- Transatlantic Security
  Can Europe (Ever) Defend Itself?
  Today’s Brussels Sprouts discussion follows on from our conversation last week on whether middle powers have the ability to chart a course more independent of the United State...
  
  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Franz-Stefan Gady
  - Podcast
- Transatlantic Security
  There’s a Way Forward for Sovereign European Space Intel, but Is There the Will?
  By Cameron Olbert
  - Commentary
- Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
  Top Experts Decode India-U.S. Trade Deal | Questions Loom Over Russian Oil Imports, $500Bn Investment
  By Daniel Silverberg
  - Video
Middle East Security
- Middle East Security
  Trump Turns to U.S. Military Leaders for Diplomatic Efforts on Iran and Ukraine
  President Donald Trump has taken the unusual step of tapping military leaders for high-level diplomacy, sending the top U.S. commander in the Middle East to talks over Iran’s ...
  
  By Elisa Catalano Ewers
  - In The News
- Defense / Middle East Security
  U.S. Positions Aircraft Carriers, Strike Platforms Across Middle East as Iran Talks Shift to Oman
  By Philip Sheers
  - In The News
- Middle East Security
  Walmart Hits Trillion Dollar Market Cap for the First Time
  By Rachel Ziemba
  - In The News
Energy, Economics & Security
- Energy, Economics & Security
  CNAS Insights | Why the United States Needs Economic Coercion Doctrine
  Economic tools now sit at the center of U.S. global competition. Sanctions, export controls, investment restrictions, and financial measures are employed with a frequency and ...
  
  By LtCol Mary Hossier
  - Commentary
- Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
  Want to Stop Trump Bullying Your Country? Retaliate
  By Edward Fishman
  - Commentary
- Energy, Economics & Security
  U.S. Takes Energy Leverage to New Heights
  By Rachel Ziemba
  - In The News
Technology & National Security
- Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
  How Long Can Taiwan Ride the AI Wave?
  Taiwan’s exports hit an all-time high of US$640 billion in 2025, driven by insatiable global demand for its advanced semiconductors, servers, and other data center hardware us...
  
  By J Travis Mosier
  - In The News
- Technology & National Security
  Pentagon Leaders Should Have More Control over Services’ Tech Budgets, GAO Suggests
  By Paul Scharre
  - In The News
- Technology & National Security
  Export Controls Backfire: The China Innovation Paradox
  By James Sanders
  - In The News
National Security Law Program
- National Security Law Program
  The Fed, Ed Accreditation, and DHS
  Loren and Radha reminisce about wintry memories and Benedict Cumberbatch before a cocktail parties worth of gossip on Fed rates, tariffs, and appropriations politics. In dumps...
  
  By Carrie Cordero
  - Podcast
- National Security Law Program
  Accountability and Oversight Concerns in DHS
  By Carrie Cordero
  - Video
- National Security Law Program
  Legal Questions Remain After U.S. Capture of Maduro
  By Carrie Cordero
  - Video
Global Swing States
- Global Swing States
  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
  - Commentary
- Global Swing States
  Losing the Swing States
  By Richard Fontaine & Gibbs McKinley
  - Commentary
- Global Swing States
  New CNAS Report Argues Six “Global Swing States” Will Shape the New Great Power Competition
  - Press Release