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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...
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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 | 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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The U.S.-China Tech Rivalry Is Heating Up. What It Means for the Trump-Xi Summit.By Daniel Remler
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What Happens if America Nationalizes AI?“There’s quite a lot of power that the federal government can wield,” Paul Scharre, an executive at the Center for a New American Security who previously did policy work at th...
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New Security Unit to Tackle ‘Catastrophic’ AI-Enabled Bioweapons“Making a bioweapon was not something that was feasible or accessible by folks without significant know-how and tacit knowledge,” said Janet Egan, deputy director of technolog...
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Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Has Deepened a Historic Shipping Crisis
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“Hormuz is definitely a tool of leverage and a metric of whether Iranian responses are coordinated,” said Rachel Ziemba, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Securit...
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From Ukraine to Taiwan: Drone Warfare Lessons Meet Indo-Pacific Reality
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"It's not really about 'swarms' yet -- it's about mass. Large volumes of drones used in salvos to overwhelm defenses and increase the probability of a successful strike," said...
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Markets React as Trump Orders Military Action in Hormuz
President Trump orders the U.S. military to target any boat laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions with Iran and sending oil prices sharply higher. Bloomber...
By Becca Wasser
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From Ukraine to Taiwan: Drone Warfare Lessons Meet Indo-Pacific Reality
By Molly Campbell
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The U.S. Has Been Burning Through Weapons in Iran It Could Need in a War with China. Here Are the Latest Estimates.
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Markets React as Trump Orders Military Action in Hormuz
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Japan, a Hesitant Geopolitical Actor No More
U.S. politics are a key driver of Japan’s geopolitical renaissance....
By Derek Grossman
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Quad Summit Plan Turns Uneasy as India Pushes Ahead Without Top Leaders: Sources
By Lisa Curtis
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Can Philippines Become Critical Minerals Powerhouse with Help from U.S., Japan?
By Lisa Curtis & Ryan Claffey
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Japan, a Hesitant Geopolitical Actor No More
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National Security Human Capital
What the New Draft Registration Rule Means for YouA new rule will automatically register men between 18 and 25 for the Selective Service starting in December. How will that work? PBS News’ Tim McPhillips spoke with Katherine ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital
Recruiting Is Up. Now the U.S. Military Wants to Grow the Force by Another 44,500 Troops.By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital
How Hegseth Has Transformed the Pentagon’s Wartime Press OperationBy Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Transatlantic Adaptation: A More European NATO?
Doubts about U.S. reliability and the future of NATO are top of mind for most in the transatlantic community. The concerns that spiked after President Donald Trump’s threats t...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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U.S. Security Analysts Expect ‘More Europe and Less U.S. in NATO’
By Jim Townsend
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What Could Europe’s Loan to Ukraine Mean for Moscow?
By Jim Townsend
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Transatlantic Adaptation: A More European NATO?
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The Russia-Iran Partnership
The United States needs to prioritize increasing the cost of Russia’s support for Iran; sanctions alone are not sufficient and often encourage U.S. adversaries to get more inv...
By Delaney Soliday
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Middle East Security / National Security Law
Continuing Crisis in Strait of Hormuz: Why Iran’s Hold is Illegal and U.S. Military Force Alone FailsBy Mark Nevitt
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Cyber, Nuclear, Invasion? What Is Trump Threatening in Iran
By Daniel Schneiderman
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The Russia-Iran Partnership
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Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Has Deepened a Historic Shipping Crisis
“Hormuz is definitely a tool of leverage and a metric of whether Iranian responses are coordinated,” said Rachel Ziemba, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Securit...
By Rachel Ziemba
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President Trump Wants to Be Able to Sell the Iran War as a Win
By Rachel Ziemba
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Air War in Iran Gives Way to Crippling Stalemate in Hormuz
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Has Deepened a Historic Shipping Crisis
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Technology & National Security
Quantum 201: U.S. vs China Quantum Industrial BaseConstanza Vidal Bustamante, fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins Chris Miller and Zachary Yerushalmi to break down her new report with John Burke, Quantum's...
By Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante
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Technology & National Security
What Happens if America Nationalizes AI?By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
The U.S.-China Tech Rivalry Is Heating Up. What It Means for the Trump-Xi Summit.By Daniel Remler
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U.S. Disputes Reports of Ships Breaching Blockade
The dotted line is “an operational tool for the Navy warships that has little to no legal import. The law of blockade speaks nothing about blockade lines, it just speaks about...
By Mark Nevitt
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U.S. Military Prepares to Board Iran-Linked Ships in Coming Days, Officials Say
By Mark Nevitt
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The Constitution’s Forgotten Term Limit on Military Power
By Mark Nevitt & Matthew. B. Lawrence
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U.S. Disputes Reports of Ships Breaching Blockade
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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
