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Steven Sturges is a research assistant for the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Before joining CNAS, he was a ...

While the group’s experts agreed that Putin and his regime maintain a firm grip on power, there is now less certainty about ...

Listen to the full interview on Irregular Warfare Initiative. Executive Summary The United States is home to 17.3 million veterans in 2026—a population that has declined from 21.0 million in 2015, as ...

When Washington's de facto ambassador to Taiwan, Raymond Greene, explained the Trump administration's approach to ...

In the latest episode of “Talking Trade,” Rachel Ziemba of Ziemba Insights says a recent state meeting between President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping “may not give as much certainty ...

Six months of war with Iran has depleted America’s munitions capacity, leaving stockpiles of interceptors and precision weapons dangerously low and demand above the replacement rate of production. The ...

Between cheap-to-produce drones and artificial intelligence, the future of warfare may already be here. Paul Scharre, former US Army Ranger and executive vice president of the Center for a New ...

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Ryan Paoloni is a Joseph S. Nye, Jr. intern for the Defense Program at the Center for New American Security (CNAS). Prior to joining CNAS, Paoloni ...

Liza Tobin, Former China Director at the US National Security Council, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and Managing Director of Garnaut Global, discusses her ...

The last few months have been littered with incidents of AI systems acting in harmful ways against human intent. Speed is also coming at the cost of security, leaving companies’ valuable intellectual ...