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Global Compute and National Security

Janet Egan | July 29, 2025

Global Swing States and the New Great Power Competition

Richard Fontaine, Gibbs McKinley | June 26, 2025

Cyber Crossroads in the Indo-Pacific

Vivek Chilukuri, Lisa Curtis, Janet Egan, Morgan Peirce, Elizabeth Whatcott, Nathaniel Schochet | June 24, 2025

Quad: The Next Phase

Lisa Curtis, Kareen Hart, Ryan Claffey, Keerthi Martyn, Thomas Corel | June 18, 2025

Global Compute and National Security

Executive Summary The current pathway to breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities relies on amassing and leveraging vast “compute”—specialized chips housed withi...

Global Swing States and the New Great Power Competition

International politics is undergoing a period of rapid, significant change. China and Russia are working together more closely and alongside Iran and North Korea...

Cyber Crossroads in the Indo-Pacific

The Indo-Pacific faces a cyber crossroads. Down one path lies deeper military, intelligence, and economic ties between Washington and its key allies and partners in this strat...

Quad: The Next Phase

Executive Summary The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) among the United States, Australia, India, and Japan is becoming the focal point for economic and technological co...

AMERICA'S EDGE

The United States faces a rapidly changing global security landscape. Evolving technology, shifting alliances, and emerging threats require America to harness bold, innovative approaches. The CNAS 2025 national security conference, America’s Edge: Forging the Future, will bring together bipartisan leaders, policymakers, and industry to chart a vision for enhancing America’s global edge.

CNAS 2025 National Security Conference | America's Edge: Forging the Future

Jun 3, 2025

The First 100 Days

The First 100 Days is a series of recommendations from CNAS experts. The recommendations span the most pressing issues that will test the administration, including competition...

Global Swing States and the New Great Power Competition

International politics is undergoing a period of rapid, significant change. China and Russia are working together more closely and alongside Iran and North Korea...

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The Trump administration appears to be avoiding new China-related controls on sensitive semiconductor manufacturing equipment because it fears those restrictions could impede ...

By Janet Egan
- Export Compliance Daily
- August 1, 2025
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CNAS Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship Now Accepting Applications for the 2026 Class
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is now accepting applications for the 2026 class of the Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship....
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Air Force Rebrands Facebook Page to Combat Rumors, Leaked Memos and Reddit Threads
A long-standing Air Force Facebook page created to represent its top enlisted leader has been renamed and rebranded as a news source -- an apparent move by the service to cont...

By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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- July 31, 2025
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What the U.S. Navy Could Learn from Ukraine About Sinking Enemy Ships
Even though Ukraine does not have much in the way of a navy, it has scored several victories against the Russian military by using drone boats known as unmanned surface vessel...

By Tom Shugart
- Task and Purpose
- July 31, 2025
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JUST IN: Growing Alignment Among Potential Foes Creating Challenges for U.S., Experts Say
The alignment between Russia, China, North Korea and Iran carries implications across the United States’s diplomatic and economic foreign policy, but the military threat is of...

By Richard Fontaine & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
- National Defense Magazine
- July 30, 2025

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  What the U.S. Navy Could Learn from Ukraine About Sinking Enemy Ships
  Even though Ukraine does not have much in the way of a navy, it has scored several victories against the Russian military by using drone boats known as unmanned surface vessel...
  
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  Stop Obsessing Over AGI
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  China Military Scholar Elsa Kania on the PLA’s Dramatic Modernisation
  Today we speak with Elsa B. Kania, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, about China’s military modernisation. How good is the People’s Liberation A...
  
  By Elsa B. Kania
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  JUST IN: Growing Alignment Among Potential Foes Creating Challenges for U.S., Experts Say
  By Richard Fontaine & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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  Air Force Rebrands Facebook Page to Combat Rumors, Leaked Memos and Reddit Threads
  A long-standing Air Force Facebook page created to represent its top enlisted leader has been renamed and rebranded as a news source -- an apparent move by the service to cont...
  
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  A Top Green Beret Influencer Says He Exaggerated His War Story. The U.S. Military Is Investigating, and Vets See a Deeper Problem.
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  Russia, Ukraine, and the Global Order with Fiona Hill
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  JUST IN: Growing Alignment Among Potential Foes Creating Challenges for U.S., Experts Say
  By Richard Fontaine & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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  Who Should Coordinate Europe’s Defense Buildup?
  By Sara Moller
  - Commentary
Middle East Security
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  JUST IN: Growing Alignment Among Potential Foes Creating Challenges for U.S., Experts Say
  The alignment between Russia, China, North Korea and Iran carries implications across the United States’s diplomatic and economic foreign policy, but the military threat is of...
  
  By Richard Fontaine & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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  The Democratic Party Has a Middle East Problem
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  Ep. 45 | Global Swing States and the New Great Power Competition
  By Richard Fontaine
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Energy, Economics & Security
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  Trump Hits India with 25% Tariff
  There have been signs of trouble in the U.S.-India talks, according to a Lisa Curtis from the Center for a New American Security, joining Bloomberg TV, including the U.S. want...
  
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  ‘Exorbitant Privilege’: Can the U.S. Dollar Maintain Its Global Dominance?
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Technology & National Security
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  Researcher: U.S. Seems ‘Hesitant’ to Control Chip Equipment to Avoid Hurting China Talks
  The Trump administration appears to be avoiding new China-related controls on sensitive semiconductor manufacturing equipment because it fears those restrictions could impede ...
  
  By Janet Egan
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  Stop Obsessing Over AGI
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  Respect Umpires — on the Field and in the Courtroom
  Congress shouldn’t let the administration’s contempt slide. None of us should....
  
  By Will Rogers
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  Can the President Deploy the National Guard to American Cities?
  By Carrie Cordero
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  Sharper: The National Guard
  By Charles Horn & Taren Sylvester
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Global Swing States
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  New CNAS Report Argues Six “Global Swing States” Will Shape the New Great Power Competition
  Washington, June 26, 2025 – As international politics undergoes rapid transformation and great power competition intensifies, a new report from the Center for a New American S...
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  Global Swing States and the New Great Power Competition
  By Richard Fontaine & Gibbs McKinley
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  Countering the Digital Silk Road: Brazil
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