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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 | America Isn’t Ready for a Drone War
This week, U.S. personnel near El Paso, Texas, tested a high-energy laser as part of their mission to shoot down cartel drones along the southern border. The resulting confusi...
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
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‘Getting Ties on Track Top Priority for Both India, U.S.’: Former Us National Security Official Lisa Curtis
In The News
US-India relations were once described as one of Washington’s most important strategic bets in the 21st century. But, over the past year, that partnership has come under serio...
By Lisa Curtis
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The U.S. Is Racing to Build a Drone Shield and This 90-Degree Missile Could Power Trump’s “Golden Dome”
In The News
A missile fires straight up, pivots, and kills a drone midair, JAGM’s latest test hints at a new weapon in America’s race to counter aerial threats....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Once the Americans Warned of the Russian Threat. Now, It’s the Europeans’ Turn.
In The News
Four years ago American officials arrived at the Munich Security Conference armed with satellite photographs of massing Russian troops and intercepts of conversations among Ru...
By Richard Fontaine
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El Paso Airspace Shutdown Is ‘Case Study’ in Complexity of Counter-Drone Ops: Experts
In The News
The use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border this week—which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly close the airspace over El Paso, Tex...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Pentagon Brings ChatGPT Into Its Official AI Tool SetThe Pentagon’s adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools—including the recent addition of the world’s most popular model, ChatGPT—holds promise for more efficient w...
By Caleb Withers
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The U.S. Is Racing to Build a Drone Shield and This 90-Degree Missile Could Power Trump’s “Golden Dome”
A missile fires straight up, pivots, and kills a drone midair, JAGM’s latest test hints at a new weapon in America’s race to counter aerial threats....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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El Paso Airspace Shutdown Is ‘Case Study’ in Complexity of Counter-Drone Ops: Experts
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump’s Caribbean Surge Nears $3 Billion Price Tag So Far
By Becca Wasser
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The U.S. Is Racing to Build a Drone Shield and This 90-Degree Missile Could Power Trump’s “Golden Dome”
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‘Getting Ties on Track Top Priority for Both India, U.S.’: Former Us National Security Official Lisa Curtis
US-India relations were once described as one of Washington’s most important strategic bets in the 21st century. But, over the past year, that partnership has come under serio...
By Lisa Curtis
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Trump’s NATO DilemmaBy Sara Moller
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
How Long Can Taiwan Ride the AI Wave?By J Travis Mosier
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‘Getting Ties on Track Top Priority for Both India, U.S.’: Former Us National Security Official Lisa Curtis
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National Security Human Capital Program
Army to Be More Selective with Reenlistment Bonuses Under New GuidanceThe 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
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
The U.S. Army’s Quiet Rotation in the PhilippinesBy Katherine L. Kuzminski & Stacie Pettyjohn
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National Security Human Capital Program
Army Recruiting Waivers for Mental Health Will Be Approved at Lower LevelsBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Sound of Munich: Autonomy, Anxiety, and the Twilight of Transatlantic Order
This article was originally published in War on the Rocks. Munich was warmer than Washington this weekend, both in weather and in sentiment. Neither development was widely fo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Once the Americans Warned of the Russian Threat. Now, It’s the Europeans’ Turn.
By Richard Fontaine
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Migration Can Provide the Manpower for European DefenseBy Adham Sahloul
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The Sound of Munich: Autonomy, Anxiety, and the Twilight of Transatlantic Order
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Venezuela’s Natural Gas, Not Oil, Might Be a Big Early Prize
Venezuela’s oil reserves may be vast, but some of the best opportunities to quickly develop the country’s resources lie offshore, in the pockets of natural gas trapped deep be...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Migration Can Provide the Manpower for European DefenseBy Adham Sahloul
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Trump Turns to Military Leaders for High-Stakes Diplomacy
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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Venezuela’s Natural Gas, Not Oil, Might Be a Big Early Prize
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Marco Rubio Is Rebooting the Neocons for the MAGA Era
This article was originally published in Bloomberg. In his infamous guide to ruling, Niccolò Machiavelli also offers a warning to ambitious advisers: Power belongs to the pri...
By Chris Kennedy
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Former U.S. State Department Official Optimistic USMCA Will Be Renewed
By Edward Fishman
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Trump Administration’s Venezuela Approach Gets Murkier
By Alex Zerden
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Marco Rubio Is Rebooting the Neocons for the MAGA Era
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Technology & National Security
The Sovereignty Gap in U.S. AI StatecraftThis article was originally published in Lawfare. As the India AI Impact Summit kicks off this week, the Trump administration has embraced the language of “sovereign AI.” Thro...
By Pablo Chavez
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Technology & National Security
Pentagon Brings ChatGPT Into Its Official AI Tool SetBy Caleb Withers
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Technology & National Security
America’s Key to Biotechnology Leadership? AI-Ready Biodata.By Sam Howell & Michelle Holko
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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
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Accountability and Oversight Concerns in DHS
By Carrie Cordero
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Legal Questions Remain After U.S. Capture of Maduro
By Carrie Cordero
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The Fed, Ed Accreditation, and DHS
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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
