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U.S.-Japan-Philippines Trilateral Cooperation
Lisa Curtis, Ryan Claffey | March 17, 2026
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2025 Year in Review
Eleanor Hume, Kyle Rutter | January 29, 2026
Hellscape for Taiwan
Stacie Pettyjohn, Molly Campbell | February 26, 2026
Eyes in the Sky
Philip Sheers | March 03, 2026
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U.S.-Japan-Philippines Trilateral Cooperation
Executive Summary Growing challenges from the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) massive military modernization, rapid technological advancement, and coercive military activ...
Reports
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...
Reports
Hellscape for Taiwan
Executive Summary The question of how Taiwan can effectively deter and, if necessary, defeat a Chinese invasion has become increasingly urgent. For the past two decades, Taiwa...
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Eyes in the Sky
In the Department of Defense’s priority scenarios—a “defense by denial” of China and homeland defense—dedicated airborne sensing and battle management aircraft and their crew ...
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CNAS Insights brings timely analysis and expert commentary to the most pressing topics in national security.
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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....
Commentary
CNAS Insights | Pakistan’s Iran Mediation Gambit Likely to Boost Ties with the Trump Administration
It may be surprising to some that Pakistan has taken on the risky role of a key mediator between the United States and Iran to try to end the war entering its second month. Ho...
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CNAS Insights | Bridging Washington and Silicon Valley
The recent friction between Anthropic and the Pentagon has made me reflect on the painful chasm that opened between Washington and Silicon Valley following leaks from Edward S...
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Technology & National Security
Russia’s New KVS Drone May Be Designed To Restore Reach In The FPV WarBy Samuel Bendett
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Iran Knows How to Fight a War Without Friends—Does the U.S.?
In The News
Rachel Rizzo, adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security's Transatlantic Security Program, argued that the snub constituted for the Trump administration "the fir...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Russian Female Drone Pilots Flying Against The Wind Of Tradition“Russia’s traditional attitude towards the general role of women may preclude a wider acceptance of even professional drone pilots across the force,” Samuel Bendett, an expert...
By Samuel Bendett
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National Security Human Capital
Army Gives Some Civilian Employees Days to Accept Reassignments, Separations or Face Involuntary Moves amid Force-Wide Rebalancing EffortBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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In The News
Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic DisasterJanet Egan, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, described data centers to us as “large, juicy targets.” It is impossible to hide these facilities, which...
By Janet Egan
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Iran Shows the Emerging Crisis of the U.S. Airborne Battle Management Fleet
The ABM force structure crisis comes at an acute moment for US air operations....
By Philip Sheers
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Hellscape Taiwan: A Porcupine Defense in the Drone Age
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Molly Campbell
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Negotiations With Iran Are Likely 'DOA,' Says Wasser
By Becca Wasser
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Iran Shows the Emerging Crisis of the U.S. Airborne Battle Management Fleet
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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...
By Lisa Curtis, Keerthi Martyn & Sitara Gupta
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Is ‘Voice of America’ Over?
By Lisa Curtis
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Iran U.S. War Latest Updates | ‘U.S., Israel Making Gains’: Lisa Curtis On Week 3 of Iran WarBy Lisa Curtis
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Repairing the Breach
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National Security Human Capital
Army Gives Some Civilian Employees Days to Accept Reassignments, Separations or Face Involuntary Moves amid Force-Wide Rebalancing EffortBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital
Army Raises Enlistment Age Limit to 42 and Eases Marijuana RulesBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital
Army Raises Enlistment Age to 42, Eases Marijuana RestrictionsBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The United States, Iran, and the Risk to NATO
On March 14, in the wake of a global energy shock triggered by the United States military campaign against Iran, President Donald Trump called on allies to help reopen the Str...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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Iran Knows How to Fight a War Without Friends—Does the U.S.?
By Rachel Rizzo
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Russian Female Drone Pilots Flying Against The Wind Of TraditionBy Samuel Bendett
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The United States, Iran, and the Risk to NATO
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Defense / Middle East Security
CNN: 1,000 Army Paratroopers Deploy to Middle East in DaysBecca Wasser, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security joins CNN to discuss the deployment of troops to Iran and the status of negotiations.Watch the fu...
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Middle East Security
What It Would Take to Reopen the Strait of HormuzBy Becca Wasser
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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump Has Options to Invade Iran—All of Them Would Cost DearlyBy Carlton Haelig
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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....
By Emily Kilcrease & Geoffrey Gertz
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Why Is There No Trade Jail? With Ambassador María Pagán.
By Emily Kilcrease & Geoffrey Gertz
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic DisasterBy Janet Egan
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CNAS Insights | A Year After Liberation Day, Can Trump’s Trade Wars Be Salvaged?
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Technology & National Security
Russia’s New KVS Drone May Be Designed To Restore Reach In The FPV WarBy Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Future of Autonomous WeaponsBy Paul Scharre
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic DisasterBy Janet Egan
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Legal and Operational Issues in the Strait of Hormuz: Transit Passage Under Fire
The Strait of Hormuz has long been recognized as one of the world’s most strategically vital and legally complex maritime passages....
By Mark Nevitt
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Middle East Security / National Security Law
Is the U.S. Fighting a War Without Rules?By Mark Nevitt
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Can a President Unilaterally Withdraw—and Rejoin—the UN Climate Treaty?
By Mark Nevitt
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Legal and Operational Issues in the Strait of Hormuz: Transit Passage Under Fire
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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
