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A Blueprint for New Sanctions on North Korea
Edward Fishman, Peter Harrell, Elizabeth Rosenberg | July 27, 2017
Defense Strategies & Assessments
Michèle Flournoy on CBS This Morning on U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security Michèle Flournoy joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss why the U.S. is still...
Defense Strategies & Assessments
Dr. Jerry Hendrix before the Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower
Chairman Wicker, Senator Hirono, and distinguished members of the Seapower Subcommittee, thank you for extending the honor of addressing the topic of how the Navy might reach ...
Technology & National Security
Connect the Dots to Stop Terror Plots
Why didn’t intelligence agencies prevent 9/11? According to the 9/11 Commission, before the attacks, information from intelligence agencies “often failed to make its way to cr...
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Beyond the San Hai
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The United States has enjoyed largely uncontested naval supremacy across the blue waters, or open oceans, for decades. The rapid emergence of an increasingly global People’s L...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper, Harry Krejsa, Alexander Sullivan & Rush Doshi
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Extending American Power
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Foreword by Robert Kagan and James P. Rubin Over the past year, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) brought together an extraordinary group of scholars, practitione...
By Amb. Eric S. Edelman, James B. Steinberg, Julianne Smith, Kurt Campbell, Michèle Flournoy, Richard Fontaine, James P. Rubin, Stephen J. Hadley, Dr. Robert Kagan & Robert Zoellick
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#Virtual Caliphate
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Many policymakers, intelligence analysts, and academics believe expelling the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from Mosul and Raqqah is the key to t...
By General Joseph L. Votel, LTC Christina Bembenek, Charles Hans, Jeffery Mouton & Amanda Spencer
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The Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
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The next president will inherit a relationship with Russia fraught with more tension than at any point since the Cold War. Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine sparked fear that ...
By Julianne Smith & Adam Twardowski
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Power and Order in the South China Sea
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Despite numerous calls for a more cooperative relationship, U.S.-China ties appear to be on an increasingly competitive trajectory.1 Nowhere has this seemed more apparent than...
By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
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Lauren Fish on the NDAA and Defense Policy
Lauren Fish, research associate with the CNAS Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, discusses new challenges and opportunities with the National Defense Authorization Ac...
By Lauren Fish & Neal Urwitz
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Trump Acts To Revitalize America’s Defense Industrial Base
By Jerry Hendrix & Robert C. O'Brien
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Dr. Jerry Hendrix before the Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower
By Jerry Hendrix
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Lauren Fish on the NDAA and Defense Policy
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China's navy expands reach: Ships in Baltic for drills with Russia
One of China's most-advanced warships is leading a small flotilla to the Baltic Sea, where it will engage in exercises with the Russian Navy. The Russian and Chinese defense m...
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US to ban Americans from visiting North Korea
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
- The US Has Lifted Its Laptop Ban On Flights From The Middle East And North Africa
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China's navy expands reach: Ships in Baltic for drills with Russia
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Trump’s Transgender Ban Will Weaken the Military
In an unexpected move Wednesday morning, on the 69th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s order to desegregate the armed forces, President Donald Trump tweeted that he had ...
By Phillip Carter & Amy Schafer
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Michèle Flournoy on CBS This Morning on U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
By Michèle Flournoy
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Improving Federal Health and Benefits Programs to Support Seriously Wounded, Ill and Injured Veterans
By Phillip Carter
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Trump’s Transgender Ban Will Weaken the Military
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Ilan Goldenberg before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the U.S-Qatar relationship and the impl...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Can Trump Find a Better Deal Than the U.S. Air Base in Qatar?
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria, a move sought by Moscow
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Ilan Goldenberg before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
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A Blueprint for New Sanctions on North Korea
North Korea has emerged as one of the most significant national security threats facing the United States and its allies today. Since leader Kim Jong Un came to power in 2011,...
By Edward Fishman, Peter Harrell & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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New congressional sanctions tie Trump’s hands on cooperation with Russia
By Peter Harrell & Edward Fishman
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US Congress poised to pass new Russia energy sanctions
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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A Blueprint for New Sanctions on North Korea
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Connect the Dots to Stop Terror Plots
Why didn’t intelligence agencies prevent 9/11? According to the 9/11 Commission, before the attacks, information from intelligence agencies “often failed to make its way to cr...
By Adam Klein
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The Coming Drone Wars: A Headache in the Making for American Foreign Policy
By Paul Scharre
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Drones Podcast Series: Drones and the MTCR
By Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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Connect the Dots to Stop Terror Plots
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The Coming Drone Wars: A Headache in the Making for American Foreign Policy
In June, the United States shot down two Iranian-made armed drones used by Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. The fact that the shoot down (and the existence of the armed dron...
By Paul Scharre
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Drones Podcast Series: Drones and the MTCR
By Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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Drones Podcast Series: U.S. Policy and Exports
By Michael Horowitz, Dan Gettinger, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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The Coming Drone Wars: A Headache in the Making for American Foreign Policy
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Julianne Smith in Financial Times on the Second Trump-Putin Meeting in Hamburg
When news broke this week about President Donald Trump having a second, unreported meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7, some w...
By Julianne Smith
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Rethinking UK's Brexit Strategy: Tidbits from the Chatham House Director
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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President Trump’s claim ‘billions and billions’ are ‘pouring into NATO’ because of his administration
By Jim Townsend
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Julianne Smith in Financial Times on the Second Trump-Putin Meeting in Hamburg
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CNAS 2017: The Return of Marco Polo’s World and the U.S. Military Response
As Europe disappears, Eurasia coheres. The supercontinent is becoming one fluid, comprehensible unit of trade and conflict as the Westphalian system of states weakens and olde...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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CNAS 2017: Bombshell Podcast Live Recording: National Security in a Distracted World
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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CNAS President Richard Fontaine on Charlie Rose
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS 2017: The Return of Marco Polo’s World and the U.S. Military Response
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Drone Proliferation
Executive Summary The U.S. monopoly on drones has ended. More than 30 nations already have or are developing armed drones, and at least 90 nations, as well as some non-state a...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers, Lauren Fish, Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
- National Security Forum: Civilian-Military Relations
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Reset, Negotiate, Institutionalize
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Drone Proliferation
