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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
Reports
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...
Reports
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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Trump’s $1.5T Defense Budget to Weather Harsh Scrutiny on Capitol Hill
In The News
“On the one hand, it has a lot of the things that Congress has been asking the department to focus on: heavy investments in munitions production — both interceptors and offens...
By Carlton Haelig
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‘Closer to a Break than Ever’: Can NATO Survive If Trump Pulls the U.S. Out?
In The News
By Jim Townsend
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Debatable: AI Titans Influencing RegulationVivek Chilukuri, who leads the Center for a New American Security’s technology and national security program, argued that the problem is not AI companies influencing regulatio...
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Trump Administration Expected to Slash Iran War Funding Request
In The News
Stacie Pettyjohn, who directs the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank, said that even the reduced supplemental request would be a test of t...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Administration Expected to Keep Waiving Russian Oil Sanctions as Iran Call Looms
In The News
“Tinkering with Iranian oil is not a sanctions question at the end of the day; it’s about the market’s general assessment of this conflict’s direction,” said Capitol Peak Stra...
By Alex Zerden
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Trump’s $1.5T Defense Budget to Weather Harsh Scrutiny on Capitol Hill
“On the one hand, it has a lot of the things that Congress has been asking the department to focus on: heavy investments in munitions production — both interceptors and offens...
By Carlton Haelig
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President Trump Announces Two-Week Ceasefire with Iran | CNN
By Becca Wasser
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Trump Administration Expected to Slash Iran War Funding Request
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump’s $1.5T Defense Budget to Weather Harsh Scrutiny on Capitol Hill
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Can Philippines Become Critical Minerals Powerhouse with Help from U.S., Japan?
The report, written by CNAS Indo-Pacific Security Programme executive director Lisa Curtis and research assistant Ryan Claffey, said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Phili...
By Lisa Curtis & Ryan Claffey
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China to Play Significant Role in Helping Iran Rebuild: Analyst
By Richard Fontaine
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How Lessons from Iran War Could Shape Mainland China’s Calculus on Taiwan
By Jacob Stokes
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Can Philippines Become Critical Minerals Powerhouse with Help from U.S., Japan?
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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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Middle East Security / National Security Law
Continuing Crisis in Strait of Hormuz: Why Iran’s Hold is Illegal and U.S. Military Force Alone FailsIran has drawn explicit lessons from this disruption and is now seeking to institutionalize its control....
By Mark Nevitt
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Cyber, Nuclear, Invasion? What Is Trump Threatening in Iran
By Daniel Schneiderman
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Trump Finds His Offramp with Iran. But the Causes of War Remain Unresolved.By Richard Fontaine
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The Long Tail of the Hormuz Energy Crisis with Rachel Ziemba
Emily is joined by Rachel Ziemba, CNAS adjunct senior fellow and energy markets expert, to unpack the ongoing energy crisis resulting from the U.S.-Iran military conflict and ...
By Emily Kilcrease & Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Threatens 50% Tariffs on Countries Supplying Iran with Weapons
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Administration Expected to Keep Waiving Russian Oil Sanctions as Iran Call Looms
By Alex Zerden
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The Long Tail of the Hormuz Energy Crisis with Rachel Ziemba
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Technology & National Security
Debatable: AI Titans Influencing RegulationVivek Chilukuri, who leads the Center for a New American Security’s technology and national security program, argued that the problem is not AI companies influencing regulatio...
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Technology & National Security
AI & Tech Brief: The power of MythosBy Caleb Withers
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Technology & National Security
Retired Military Officers Call Trump’s Threats Against Iran ‘Likely War Crimes’By Gary Corn
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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 FailsIran has drawn explicit lessons from this disruption and is now seeking to institutionalize its control....
By Mark Nevitt
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Legal and Operational Issues in the Strait of Hormuz: Transit Passage Under Fire
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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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
