Reports
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Democracy by Design
For digital freedom to prevail over authoritarian uses of technology, democracies must offer something better....
By Kara Frederick
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Rethinking Export Controls: Unintended Consequences and the New Technological Landscape
The U.S. approach to export controls requires change....
By Martijn Rasser
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Defense Technology Strategy
The DoD needs a systematic approach—a technology strategy—for how to prioritize technology investments....
By Paul Scharre & Ainikki Riikonen
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Digital Entanglement
China’s push to dominate digital infrastructure leaves liberal democratic countries at a critical juncture....
By Kristine Lee, Martijn Rasser, Joshua Fitt & Coby Goldberg
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Common Code
The world’s tech-leading democracies should spearhead the creation of a new multilateral architecture for technology policy—a technology alliance....
By Martijn Rasser, Rebecca Arcesati, Shin Oya, Ainikki Riikonen & Monika Bochert
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The Razor’s Edge: Liberalizing the Digital Surveillance Ecosystem
Democracies must resist the impulses to build permanent digital surveillance infrastructures or risk losing a broader global contest between open societies and repressive regi...
By Kara Frederick
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Open Future
Executive Summary Communication networks are the central nervous system of the 21st century economy. The fifth generation of wireless—5G—will be essential to and inseparable f...
By Martijn Rasser & Ainikki Riikonen
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Rising to the China Challenge
The United States and China are locked in strategic competition over the future of the Indo-Pacific—the most populous, dynamic, and consequential region in the world....
By Ely Ratner, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Rush Doshi, Chris Dougherty, Richard Fontaine, Peter Harrell, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Eric Sayers, Daleep Singh, Paul Scharre, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya, Ashley Feng, Joshua Fitt, Megan Lamberth, Kristine Lee & Ainikki Riikonen
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The American AI Century: A Blueprint for Action
Foreword By Robert O. Work We find ourselves in the midst of a technological tsunami that is inexorably reshaping all aspects of our lives. Whether it be in agriculture, finan...
By Martijn Rasser, Megan Lamberth, Ainikki Riikonen, Chelsea Guo, Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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Securing Our 5G Future
Elsa B. Kania examines Washington and Beijing’s approaches to 5G development and proposes an American strategy for 5G security....
By Elsa B. Kania
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The New War of Ideas
A new battlespace emerged in the post-9/11 counterterrorism era, encompassing the halls of U.S. technology companies and the alleys of Raqqa alike....
By Kara Frederick
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Understanding China's AI Strategy
Introduction In the second half of 2018, I traveled to China on four separate trips to attend major diplomatic, military, and private-sector conferences focusing on Artificial...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Super Soldiers: Summary of Findings and Recommendations
This report, the seventh and last in the Super Soldier series, covers findings of the Center for a New American Security’s study on dismounted soldier survivability. This repo...
By Paul Scharre, Lauren Fish, Amy Schafer & Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Human Performance Enhancement
Executive Summary No attributes are more foundational to success in combat than the physical and cognitive performance of warfighters. Technological advantage has always playe...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Emerging Technologies
Executive Summary Changing the Survivability Paradigm In World War II, being an infantryman was the third deadliest job in the American military, behind bombardiers and submar...
By Paul Scharre, Lauren Fish, Amy Schafer & Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Soldier’s Heavy Load
Body armor saves lives. Modern body armor has given U.S. troops an unparalleled advantage on the battlefield, improving survivability and reducing casualties. This protection ...
By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre
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Quantum Hegemony?
China is positioning itself as a powerhouse in quantum science. Within the past several years, Chinese researchers have achieved a track record of consistent advances in basic...
By Elsa B. Kania & John Costello
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Behind The Magical Thinking
Executive Summary Drones’ greatest attraction for the national security world is that they create options where there were none – or none at a cost policymakers feel comfortab...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Strategic Competition in an Era of Artificial Intelligence
This report is part of the Center for a New American Security’s series on Artificial Intelligence and International Security...
By Michael Horowitz, Elsa B. Kania, Gregory C. Allen & Paul Scharre
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Weird Birds: Working Paper on Policymaker Perspectives on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Their Impact on National Security Decision-Making
1.INTRODUCTION No movie about a national security crisis would be complete without a darkened room displaying a blinking screen of real-time military assets as angry advisors ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman