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U.S.-Japan-Philippines Trilateral Cooperation
Lisa Curtis, Ryan Claffey | March 17, 2026
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2025 Year in Review
Eleanor Hume, Kyle Rutter | January 29, 2026
Hellscape for Taiwan
Stacie Pettyjohn, Molly Campbell | February 26, 2026
Eyes in the Sky
Philip Sheers | March 03, 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
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...
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
Eyes in the Sky
In the Department of Defense’s priority scenarios—a “defense by denial” of China and homeland defense—dedicated airborne sensing and battle management aircraft and their crew ...
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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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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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From Lockheed to European Start-Ups, Arms Makers Jostle for Iran War Orders
In The News
Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defence programme at the Center for New American Security think-tank, said despite the Trump administration’s promise to focus on eliminating...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Pottery Barn Rule Out, Trump’s ‘I Broke It, You Fix It’ Rule In
In The News
“I anticipate he walks claiming victory and says the Europeans and the Gulf states have to sort out the strait,” agreed Jim Townsend, an analyst with the Center for a New Amer...
By Jim Townsend
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Here’s What Marine Expeditionary Units Are Designed to Do
In The News
But with the Marine Corps in the midst of a massive reorganization — one that sees it shift its focus from irregular warfare to conventional conflict in the Indo-Pacific regio...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In The News
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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From Lockheed to European Start-Ups, Arms Makers Jostle for Iran War Orders
Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defence programme at the Center for New American Security think-tank, said despite the Trump administration’s promise to focus on eliminating...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Here’s What Marine Expeditionary Units Are Designed to Do
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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China Deploying Fighter Jets-Turned Drones Near Taiwan
By Tom Shugart
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From Lockheed to European Start-Ups, Arms Makers Jostle for Iran War Orders
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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...
By Lisa Curtis, Keerthi Martyn & Sitara Gupta
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Is ‘Voice of America’ Over?
By Lisa Curtis
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Iran U.S. War Latest Updates | ‘U.S., Israel Making Gains’: Lisa Curtis On Week 3 of Iran WarBy Lisa Curtis
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Repairing the Breach
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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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National Security Human Capital
Army Raises Enlistment Age to 42, Eases Marijuana RestrictionsBy Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Donald Trump’s Iran Strategy Is ‘Confused, Not Calculated’
Donald Trump’s plan for Iran is not a deliberate strategy but rather a “stream of consciousness” as his lack of clear objectives risk serious global consequences, says former ...
By Jim Townsend
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Pottery Barn Rule Out, Trump’s ‘I Broke It, You Fix It’ Rule In
By Jim Townsend
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The War in Iran, a Benefit to Putin
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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Donald Trump’s Iran Strategy Is ‘Confused, Not Calculated’
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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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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...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Anthropic: U.S. Statecraft Battles Go Domestic
By Geoffrey Gertz
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CNAS Insights | A Year After Liberation Day, Can Trump’s Trade Wars Be Salvaged?
By Emily Kilcrease & Geoffrey Gertz
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Hit It with Your Best Shot
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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
