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Aaron Nasi Joins CNAS Board of Advisors
Washington, D.C., May 29, 2024 — The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to welcome Aaron Nasi to its Board of Advisors. “We are delighted to have Aaron Nasi...
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New CNAS Report Assesses U.S.-China Competition in Quantum Computing
Report warns that U.S. quantum leadership is at risk without action to secure the nation’s quantum supply chain and workforce pipeline Washington, May 28, 2024 — Today, the C...
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Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms
“This is a big shift,” says Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security , a Washington, DC, think tank. She says that the US military has so fa...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Russia Steps Up a Covert Sabotage Campaign Aimed at Europe
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a former U.S. intelligence official, said Russia’s plan might be to weaken European resolve. While that outcome may be doubtful, she said it was importa...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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America’s New Island Fighters Are Preparing for Conflict—a Stone’s Throw From Taiwan
If China moved to invade Taiwan, American forces would want to shift some U.S. warplanes to these sites. The idea would be to disperse U.S. aircraft across an array of bases a...
By Becca Wasser
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Simple Drones, Complex Problems
Unmanned systems have existed for many years but were considered an exclusive tool. That is no longer the case. Commercial drone use "came of age" in the Syrian civil war, sai...
By Samuel Bendett
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France Is Reaching for the Stars in Artificial Intelligence
Noah Greene from the AI Safety and Stability Project at Washington-based think tank Center for a New American Security (CNAS) says the French government "flipped a switch" whe...
By Noah Greene
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CNAS Announces Members of Defense Technology Task Force
Washington, May 23, 2024—The Center for a New American Security is pleased to announce the members of its Defense Tech Task Force. They will be joined by the previously announ...
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CNAS Announces Building the Future Capital Campaign
Washington, May 22, 2024—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced its inaugural capital campaign, Building the Future. In a world awash with challenges, t...
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New CNAS Report Addresses Afghanistan's Current Human Rights and Looming Terrorism Crisis
Washington, May 21, 2024 — Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, Addressing a Human Rights and Looming Terrorism Crisis in Afghanistan: T...
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Record Number of Chinese Warships Operating in Cambodia
Cambodia’s defense ministry has praised joint activities with China for enhancing its military’s capabilities as well as its combat skills. The Golden Dragon 2024 exercise is...
By Tom Shugart
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Air Force General in Charge of Special Operations Command Nominated to Head Service Academy
While Bauernfeind's tenure at AFSOC has been less than the typical two years, it's not uncommon for the Air Force to move around its limited number of three-star generals into...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Experts link up in Thailand for US-China Track 2 dialogue on AI
“The whole point of a Track 2 dialogue is to have open and candid discussions between countries that might not be able to have those same discussions at the official governmen...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Russia ramps up strike drone use on Kharkiv front, Ukrainian artillery crew says
Samuel Bendett, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank, told Reuters he was tracking more mentions of Lancet strikes recently on pro-Russian soci...
By Samuel Bendett
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Putin and Xi plot sanction resistance
The potential for AI-induced chaos is real. A civilian AI system could accidentally do “something disastrous … shutting down electricity grids or changing satellite orbits in ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Why Growing China-Russia Military Ties Worry the West
Beyond technology, Russia's importance as a supplier for Beijing would increase significantly if China fought a war over Taiwan, according to Andrea Kendall-Taylor, director o...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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China-Russia: an economic ‘friendship’ that could rattle the world
Moscow’s increasing reliance on Beijing does not necessarily bother the Kremlin, says Andrea Kendall-Taylor, director of the transatlantic security programme at the Center for...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Top US and Chinese officials begin talks on AI in Geneva
“It’s vitally important that the United States and China begin frank discussions about how to improve AI safety,” said Paul Scharre, an AI expert at the Center for New America...
By Paul Scharre
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Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Northern Ukraine
Part of the Russians’ plan with this overall attack, military analysts said, is to threaten Kharkiv and force Ukraine to divert troops from other battlefields, especially thos...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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New CNAS Report Assesses U.S. Space Force Successes and Persistent Challenges
Report Analyzes Space Force Through 2022 and Argues There Is Room for Growth in Clarifying Space Force’s Purpose...