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A Resource-Sustainable Strategy for Countering Violent Extremist Organizations
Stephen Tankel | September 24, 2020
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U.S. National Technology Strategy
The CNAS U.S. National Technology Strategy project will develop the intellectual framework for a national technology strategy for the United States that can serve as a roadmap...
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Sharper: America and the United Nations
The UN is emerging as a key arena for ideological competition as authoritarian actors seek to bend the organization toward illiberalism....
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Trump’s Sanctions Won’t Deter Moscow
The 2020 election is no more protected from Russian meddling than the 2016 election was....
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Trump steps up Iran fight in final election stretch
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President Trump is ramping up a fight with both Iran and U.S. allies with just weeks to go before the presidential election.The Trump administration insists all United Nations...
By Peter Harrell
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CNAS Selects Kaleigh Thomas as 2020 1LT Andrew J. Bacevich, Jr., USA Award Recipient
Press Release
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Kaleigh Thomas, Research Associate for the CNAS Middle East Security Program, has been selected as th...
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CNAS Launches Major Effort on U.S. National Technology Strategy
Press Release
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of its U.S. National Technology Strategy project, a U.S. government–supported initiative to bolster Am...
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The Army wants to build a brand new exoskeleton to help soldiers ruck faster and harder
In The News
The Army is formally moving ahead with the development and fielding of a powered exoskeleton to help soldiers move faster and carry more while reducing overall fatigue after y...
By Samuel Bendett
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US military draws a line: No more bias against pregnant soldiers
In The News
One day shortly after Lt. Col. Jessica Ruttenber went back to work as an Air Force pilot following the birth of her first child in 2011, the controls on her jet started malfun...
By Kayla M. Williams
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A Resource-Sustainable Strategy for Countering Violent Extremist Organizations
The United States has been trying to pivot from counterterrorism to strategic interstate competition for almost a decade....
By Stephen Tankel
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Overcoming the Tyranny of Time: The Role of U.S. Forward Posture in Deterrence and Defense
By Billy Fabian
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The All-Volunteer Force: Civil-Military Relations Hit Home—and Abroad
By Nathalie Grogan
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A Resource-Sustainable Strategy for Countering Violent Extremist Organizations
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The United States Can’t Quit on the UN
U.S. retrenchment empowers only China....
By Kristine Lee
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Sharper: America and the United Nations
By Kristine Lee, Chris Estep & Cole Stevens
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Germany’s Indo-Pacific Vision: A New Reckoning With China or More Strategic Drift?
By Coby Goldberg
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The United States Can’t Quit on the UN
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The All-Volunteer Force: Civil-Military Relations Hit Home—and Abroad
Tensions in the civil-military relationship threaten national security from conflicts abroad to cities across the United States....
By Nathalie Grogan
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US military draws a line: No more bias against pregnant soldiers
By Kayla M. Williams
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The All-Volunteer Force: Civil-Military Relations Hit Home—and Abroad
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Kicking-off the Next Season of Brussels Sprouts with Amb. Nicholas Burns
In the first episode of the new season of Brussels Sprouts, Amb. Nicholas Burns joins Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss U.S.-Europe relations under the Trump a...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Amb. Nicholas Burns
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Germany’s Indo-Pacific Vision: A New Reckoning With China or More Strategic Drift?
By Coby Goldberg
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The Trump administration is considering moving U.S. Africa Command. It won’t be cheap or easy.
By Jim Townsend
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Kicking-off the Next Season of Brussels Sprouts with Amb. Nicholas Burns
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Looking Back At 9/11, Nineteen Years Later
Today, we reflect back on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 19 years ago. Nearly 3000 people died when hijacked passenger jets slammed into the World Trade Center and ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Toward a More Proliferated World?
By Eric Brewer, Ilan Goldenberg, Joseph Rodgers, Maxwell Simon & Kaleigh Thomas
- CNAS-CSIS Report: Toward a More Proliferated World?
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Looking Back At 9/11, Nineteen Years Later
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Trump’s Sanctions Won’t Deter Moscow
The 2020 election is no more protected from Russian meddling than the 2016 election was....
By Edward Fishman
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Trump steps up Iran fight in final election stretch
By Peter Harrell
- CNAS Launches Major Effort on U.S. National Technology Strategy
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Trump’s Sanctions Won’t Deter Moscow
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Esper's Convenient Lie
Esper’s claim that the two decades of countering violent extremism left the U.S. under-prepared for a near-peer fight doesn’t hold water....
By Paul Scharre
- CNAS Launches Major Effort on U.S. National Technology Strategy
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The Army wants to build a brand new exoskeleton to help soldiers ruck faster and harder
By Samuel Bendett
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Esper's Convenient Lie
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#Protect2020
Over the last four years, there has been an unprecedented all-of-nation effort to ensure that the 2020 election is as secure as any in U.S. history....
By Christopher C. Krebs
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Are China and Iran meddling in US elections? It’s complicated.
By Carrie Cordero
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The 9/11 Commission Report, the Pandemic and the Future of Homeland Security
By Carrie Cordero
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#Protect2020
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More women in government roles leads to greater national security
The United States is facing an unprecedented economic and health crisis due to the coronavirus. Decisions made now will have repercussions that last for years. Recovery from t...
By Katie Galgano
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Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update
By Emma Moore
- CNAS Launches “America Competes 2020”
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More women in government roles leads to greater national security
