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U.S.-Japan-Philippines Trilateral Cooperation
Lisa Curtis, Ryan Claffey | March 17, 2026
Hellscape for Taiwan
Stacie Pettyjohn, Molly Campbell | February 26, 2026
Hit It with Your Best Shot
Emily Kilcrease | April 01, 2026
Quantum's Industrial Moment
Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante, Dr. John Burke | March 12, 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
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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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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Quantum's Industrial Moment
Quantum technologies are approaching a critical inflection point. Over the next three to five years, quantum sensors and computers that have long remained confined to laborato...
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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...
Commentary
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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Free Trade is Dead in Washington
In The News
His trade negotiators have also put together bilateral trade deals that require countries to align their trade policies with the United States—and against China. The provision...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Hungary’s Orbán Has Long Annoyed the European Union. Now Some Hope He Faces Defeat
In The News
It didn’t start that way. After the Cold War, Hungary joined the EU along with nine other countries in 2004 in the bloc’s largest expansion ever. There was widespread optimism...
By Jim Townsend
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In The News
National Security Human Capital
Pentagon Calls Individual Ready Reserve a ‘Mobilization Asset’ in New PolicyKate Kuzminski, director of studies for the Center for New American Security, said the IRR has always been part of the Pentagon’s strategy to “fill necessary requirements in w...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Calls for Tougher U.S. Bunkers, Hangars Go Back Years, Analysts Say
In The News
“People are asking the valid question: What on earth was this half-billion dollar airplane doing sitting right out in the open, where commercial satellite imagery can see exac...
By Tom Shugart
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How China Uses Commercial Ships to Pressure Taiwan Without Firing a Shot
In The News
Thomas Shugart, a former U.S. Navy officer and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the pattern was unprecedented. "If you can put hundreds or even th...
By Tom Shugart
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How China Uses Commercial Ships to Pressure Taiwan Without Firing a Shot
Thomas Shugart, a former U.S. Navy officer and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the pattern was unprecedented. "If you can put hundreds or even th...
By Tom Shugart
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Calls for Tougher U.S. Bunkers, Hangars Go Back Years, Analysts Say
By Tom Shugart
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What Options Does the Air Force Have for E-3 Taken Out by Iran?
By Philip Sheers
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How China Uses Commercial Ships to Pressure Taiwan Without Firing a Shot
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The Art of the Deal Eludes Donald Trump in Iran
“The three broad choices are to escalate, walk away or cut a deal,” said Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for a New American Security, a Washington think-tank. “The p...
By Richard Fontaine
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Pakistan’s Largest Copper-Gold Mine Project Delayed by War, Militants
By Lisa Curtis
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Repairing the Breach
By Lisa Curtis, Keerthi Martyn & Sitara Gupta
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The Art of the Deal Eludes Donald Trump in Iran
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National Security Human Capital
Pentagon Calls Individual Ready Reserve a ‘Mobilization Asset’ in New PolicyKate Kuzminski, director of studies for the Center for New American Security, said the IRR has always been part of the Pentagon’s strategy to “fill necessary requirements in w...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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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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Hungary’s Orbán Has Long Annoyed the European Union. Now Some Hope He Faces Defeat
It didn’t start that way. After the Cold War, Hungary joined the EU along with nine other countries in 2004 in the bloc’s largest expansion ever. There was widespread optimism...
By Jim Townsend
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War in the Middle East: The U.S. Rescues Missing Airman from Iran
By Jim Townsend
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No Longer So Mighty? Iran War Tests U.S. Strength and Resolve
By Jim Townsend
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Hungary’s Orbán Has Long Annoyed the European Union. Now Some Hope He Faces Defeat
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
The U.S. Is Waging AI-Assisted War on Iran. Here’s How"For somebody who spent years talking about how we're moving too slow, I'm now concerned about how fast we're moving," said Jack Shanahan, a retired lieutenant general and adu...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Defense / Middle East Security
CNN: 1,000 Army Paratroopers Deploy to Middle East in DaysBy 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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Free Trade is Dead in Washington
His trade negotiators have also put together bilateral trade deals that require countries to align their trade policies with the United States—and against China. The provision...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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The War’s Economic Impact Could Get Worse for Americans
By Rachel Ziemba
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Hit It with Your Best Shot
By Emily Kilcrease
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Free Trade is Dead in Washington
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Technology & National Security
Bill to Ban Sale of Key AI Chipmaking Equipment to China Introduced in House“Allied companies like ASML and Tokyo Electron are still servicing semiconductor manufacturing equipment inside Chinese fabs,” said Michelle Nie, a visiting fellow and AI poli...
By Michelle Nie
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
The U.S. Is Waging AI-Assisted War on Iran. Here’s HowBy Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Technology & National Security
Dutch Export Controls Don’t Go Far Enough on ChinaBy Michelle Nie
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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
