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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
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 train and deploy ad...
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Who Will Make Money on AI?
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 a significant imp...
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Hit It with Your Best Shot
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 postwar period....
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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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Ukraine Turns Real-Life Kills Into Video Game Thrills for Drone Pilots
In The News
Franz-Stefan Gady, an analyst in Vienna with the Center for a New American Security, cautioned perspective. While it’s “a reasonable estimate to assume that they have been los...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Trump Hits the Stalemate Phase of His International Interventions, and It Stings
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“Foreign policy tends to be a long and difficult enterprise,” Richard Fontaine, a former top aide to Senator John McCain and now the chief executive of the Center for a New Am...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Defense / Technology & National Security
Russia Is Turning More of Its Shaheds Into Operator-Guided Drones That Can Hunt Moving Targets and Dodge DefensesSamuel Bendett, an expert on Russian drones with the Center for Naval Analyses and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told Business Insider th...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Is Arming Attack Drones with New Electronic Defenses to Fight off Ukrainian Interceptors
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Samuel Bendett, a Russian drone expert and advisor with the Center for Naval Analyses, a US-based research organization, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New A...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine Is Turning the Tables
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Franz-Stefan Gady, a Vienna-based military analyst who frequently travels to the front, says that by deploying swarms of FPVs to establish the 20km-deep kill zone, Kyiv has re...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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UK Could Send RAF to Romania as Russia Ramps up Attacks on NATO
"I think we’ve got to be very deliberate. I think we have to be very strong in how we show unification behind Romania." Russia has been "ramping up" its attacks on NATO allies...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump Sends Iran Deal Text Back with Changes
By Becca Wasser
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Trump Hits the Stalemate Phase of His International Interventions, and It Stings
By Richard Fontaine
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UK Could Send RAF to Romania as Russia Ramps up Attacks on NATO
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Thwarting Communications Blackout
Executive Summary Control over the physical means of transmitting information—the lifeblood of modern societies—has become a central area of contestation between Taiwan and th...
By Jacob Stokes & Ryan Claffey
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Pakistan’s Growing Regional Role
By Lisa Curtis
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Japan’s Point of No Return
By Daisuke Kawai
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Thwarting Communications Blackout
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National Security Human Capital
The Kid Rock Flyby Controversy and the Erosion of Military ProfessionalismAdherence to high standards and a willingness to conduct investigations when those standards may have been violated are a feature of the American military and contribute in no...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Beyond the Selective Service MythsBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Defense / National Security Human Capital
‘Insatiable’ Demand: Inside the Fight for a Bigger U.S. Special Forces BudgetBy Jim Townsend
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Window of Opportunity? Deterrence and Moscow’s Calculus
In the last episode of Brussels Sprouts, we looked at the dizzying series of U.S. announcements about America’s military posture in Europe. Since then, new reporting has emerg...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Jeffrey Edmonds
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The Coming Crisis of NATO Deterrence
By Celeste Wallander
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U.S. Military Posture and Implications for European Security
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Window of Opportunity? Deterrence and Moscow’s Calculus
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Requests Edits to Iran DealPresident Donald Trump said he’s making a “final determination” on a preliminary deal to extend a ceasefire with Iran although mixed messages from both sides over when an agre...
By Chris Kennedy
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Holding Off on New Iran Strikes After Gulf AppealBy Chris Kennedy
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
The Global Power Shift No One Is Talking About – And Who’s Driving ItBy Richard Fontaine
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Requests Edits to Iran DealPresident Donald Trump said he’s making a “final determination” on a preliminary deal to extend a ceasefire with Iran although mixed messages from both sides over when an agre...
By Chris Kennedy
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Daily Energy Markets - June 1st
By Rachel Ziemba
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Managed Scarcity: Governments, Stockpiles, and Defence Spending
By Rachel Ziemba
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Technology & National Security
Adversarial DistillationI. Introduction: The National Security Threat of Adversarial Distillation The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views artificial intelligence (AI) as central to strategic competit...
By Daniel Remler & Ben Hayum
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Russia Is Turning More of Its Shaheds Into Operator-Guided Drones That Can Hunt Moving Targets and Dodge DefensesBy Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
The Entanglement EdgeBy Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante & Morgan Peirce
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Technology & National Security / National Security Law
CNAS Insights | The Case for Long-Term CISA 2015 ReauthorizationLast fall, one of the United States’ most important cyber defense laws expired. For six weeks, the private sector no longer had legal protections to share critical cyber threa...
By Carrie Cordero & Morgan Peirce
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Legal Background: Distinguishing Between Law Enforcement Powers
By Matthew Kroscher
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An Achievable Balance
By Terrence M. Cunningham & Gene Voegtlin
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Transatlantic Security / Global Swing States
Beyond the SahelRussia has been expanding its engagement in Africa under President Vladimir Putin, seeking to increase Russia’s access to resources (either natural or military, including port...
By Kate Johnston, Valeria Allende & Isabel Dlabach
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CNAS Insights | Why the “Swing States” Approach Is Right for Africa
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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