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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 | 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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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...
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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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Quad Summit Plan Turns Uneasy as India Pushes Ahead Without Top Leaders: Sources
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Lisa Curtis, who served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for South and Central Asia during Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2021, argued that trying to ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Technology & National Security
Iran Is Teaching Us Something About the American War Machine“We’re starting to see the contours of a new age of missile and drone warfare,” Paul Scharre of the Center for a New American Security says....
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The Pentagon Wants a 188 Percent Bump for Missile Procurement. Can Industry Deliver?
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“I think the Pentagon is viewing this as a generational budget, as something to try and overcome some of the longstanding challenges that existed and to essentially reposition...
By Becca Wasser
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How the U.S. Navy Could Enforce a Blockade of Iran’s Ports in the Strait of Hormuz
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"This is not a law enforcement action, it's a wartime action," said Mark Nevitt, a former U.S. Navy judge advocate general officer and an associate professor at Emory Universi...
By Mark Nevitt
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Technology & National Security
Mutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms RaceIn Washington, Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, who had previously worked in intelligence at the Defense Department, was assessing whether A.I. could solve a more immediate problem. Th...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Embracing Private Equity in the Next Era of National Security
Introduction For decades, the United States has fielded the world’s most advanced and capable military. It has done so despite an acquisition system that is often bureaucratic...
By General John W. Raymond & Matt O’Kane
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The Pentagon Wants a 188 Percent Bump for Missile Procurement. Can Industry Deliver?
By Becca Wasser
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Trump’s $1.5T Defense Budget to Weather Harsh Scrutiny on Capitol Hill
By Carlton Haelig
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Embracing Private Equity in the Next Era of National Security
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Quad Summit Plan Turns Uneasy as India Pushes Ahead Without Top Leaders: Sources
Lisa Curtis, who served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for South and Central Asia during Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2021, argued that trying to ...
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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China to Play Significant Role in Helping Iran Rebuild: Analyst
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Quad Summit Plan Turns Uneasy as India Pushes Ahead Without Top Leaders: Sources
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How Hegseth Has Transformed the Pentagon’s Wartime Press OperationJason Dempsey, a career Army infantry officer who served as a special assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said social media videos and public appearances do not serve the ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital
Pentagon Calls Individual Ready Reserve a ‘Mobilization Asset’ in New PolicyBy 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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European Perspectives on the U.S.-Iran Conflict
On April 7, after more than five weeks of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 14-day ceasefire, provided Iran allows passage through the St...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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‘Closer to a Break than Ever’: Can NATO Survive If Trump Pulls the U.S. Out?
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Trump Is Claiming Victory, Even As What Exactly America Won Remains Unclear
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European Perspectives on the U.S.-Iran Conflict
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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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U.S. Threat to Blockade Hormuz Sets Up Risky New Showdown
“The de-escalation window for the global economy, such as it was, is over for now,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a W...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Energy Prices May Take ‘Months’ to Normalise, Despite Ceasefire: Analysts
By Rachel Ziemba
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The Long Tail of the Hormuz Energy Crisis with Rachel Ziemba
By Emily Kilcrease & Rachel Ziemba
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U.S. Threat to Blockade Hormuz Sets Up Risky New Showdown
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Technology & National Security
Iran Is Teaching Us Something About the American War Machine“We’re starting to see the contours of a new age of missile and drone warfare,” Paul Scharre of the Center for a New American Security says....
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
How the Pentagon Can Manage the Risks of AI WarfareBy Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Mutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms RaceBy Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Mined and Blockaded: Iran’s Unlawful Mining and the U.S. Port Blockade
As I discuss below, whether the United States carries out the blockade in a legal manner will affect, among other things, allied States’ willingness to participate and the ove...
By Mark Nevitt
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How the U.S. Navy Could Enforce a Blockade of Iran’s Ports in the Strait of Hormuz
By Mark Nevitt
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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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Mined and Blockaded: Iran’s Unlawful Mining and the U.S. Port 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
