Reports
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Dealing with a Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan
Nearly 20 years after U.S. forces overturned Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the fundamentalist Islamist movement is back in power. This follows the U.S. troop withdrawal in summ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Sanctions by the Numbers: 2021 Year in Review
The first year of President Joe Biden’s administration witnessed major developments in U.S. sanctions strategy, including a general review of all sanctions programs under the ...
By Jason Bartlett & Euihyun Bae
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Arms Control and Strategic Stability with Russia
The United States and its NATO partners have successfully managed the challenge of deterrence and reassurance for generations. The risk of conflict, even nuclear conflict, wit...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Lessons of the Syrian Conflict
Executive Summary In October 2019, The New York Times published a feature story describing how “Russia, Turkey and Bashar al-Assad carved up northern Syria as the Americans re...
By Nicholas Danforth
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Containing Crisis
As the United States and China seek to manage an increasingly tense relationship, both sides have turned to coercive economic statecraft as a core part of their broader foreig...
By Emily Kilcrease, Emily Jin & Rachel Ziemba
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Edge Networks, Core Policy
Technological leadership by the United States requires forethought and organization. The plan necessary to maintain that leadership—a national technology strategy—should be br...
By Martijn Rasser, Ainikki Riikonen & Henry Wu
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Sanctions by the Numbers: Transnational Crime and Drug Trafficking
Transnational organized crime poses a significant and growing threat to national security, with direct impacts on public safety and health, democratic institutions, and econom...
By Jason Bartlett & Megan Ophel
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Navigating Relations with Russia in the Arctic
About the Transatlantic Forum on Russia This policy brief is a product of CNAS’ Transatlantic Forum on Russia, an initiative designed to spur coordination between the United S...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Lawson W. Brigham & Nicholas Lokker
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The Future of the Digital Order
Nations that successfully harness the vast economic, political, and societal power of emerging information and communications technologies will shape the future of the global ...
By Jeff Cirillo, Lisa Curtis, Joshua Fitt, Kara Frederick, Coby Goldberg, Ilan Goldenberg, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Megan Lamberth, Martijn Rasser & Dania Torres
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Transitioning to Tech
Military experience provides service members with a range of technical and soft skills that can prepare them for meaningful employment in the private sector....
By Dr. Jason Dempsey, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Nathalie Grogan & Cody Kennedy
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When Less Is More
For the past 20 years, the U.S. military has invested heavily in the Middle East. Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump both attempted to shift assets out of the region and...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Becca Wasser, Elisa Catalano Ewers & Lilly Blumenthal
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Sanctions by the Numbers: Spotlight on Afghanistan
The United States has imposed sanctions on the Taliban since 1999, with the severity and breadth of sanctions designations rising markedly since 2001 as part of the response t...
By Jason Bartlett
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The Poison Frog Strategy
How could Taiwan and the United States respond if China seized one of Taiwan’s outlying islands, such as Pratas/Dongsha (hereafter Dongsha) in the South China Sea? Whereas the...
By Chris Dougherty, Jennie Matuschak & Ripley Hunter
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Improving Joint Operational Concept Development within the U.S. Department of Defense
For the first time in nearly four decades, the DoD is developing joint warfighting concepts designed to counter advanced military rivals—specifically China and Russia. The las...
By Paul Benfield & Greg Grant
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Tangled Threats: Integrating U.S. Strategies toward China and North Korea
China and North Korea pose intertwined challenges for U.S. and allied policy. The Korean Peninsula constitutes just one area among many in U.S.-China relations. Meanwhile, iss...
By Jacob Stokes
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The Role of County Veteran Service Officers
While much attention has been paid to federal, state, and nonprofit services, there is little research on the role of local governments, particularly at the county level....
By Katherine L. Kuzminski, Nathalie Grogan & Elena LoRusso
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A Limited Partnership
The last several years have seen a worrisome increase in tensions in the Mediterranean involving age-old rivals such as Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus, as well as increased involv...
By Jim Townsend, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, David Shullman & Gibbs McKinley
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Tailoring Transition
While TAP is designed to be comprehensive, standardized, and broadly applicable, this means that certain subpopulations may have different or more specific needs that are curr...
By Nathalie Grogan, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Elena LoRusso & Jon Tishman
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Sanctions by the Numbers: U.S. Secondary Sanctions
Over the past decade, secondary sanctions have emerged as a critical—and sometimes controversial—tool to increase the effectiveness and reach of U.S. primary sanctions program...
By Jason Bartlett & Megan Ophel
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Esports and the Military
Electronic sports, known as esports, are video games played like competitive sports on viewing platforms. Esports are a developing market with a significant presence on social...
By Elizabeth Howe, Elena LoRusso & Emma Moore