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ReportsExtending American Power
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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ReportsGlobal Perspectives: A Drone Saturated Future
Drones are rapidly proliferating. Over 90 countries and non-state groups operate drones today, and even more are certain to do so in coming years.1 These actors are beginning ...
By Kelley Sayler, Ben FitzGerald, Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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ReportsFrom the Bottom, Up
With the current state of the Syrian civil war, the conditions are not ripe for de-escalation in the conflict. If the United States is seeking a transition from the Assad regi...
By Nicholas Heras
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Reports12 Months In – 8 Months Left: An Update on Secretary Carter’s Innovation Agenda
CNAS experts Ben FitzGerald and Loren DeJonge Schulman examine whether the innovation efforts underway have the potential to achieve the reform Defense Secretary Carter seeks....
By Ben FitzGerald & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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ReportsReset, Negotiate, Institutionalize
Since the start of the Arab revolutions five years ago, the Middle East has experienced unprecedented instability. In such an impossibly fluid situation, the initial response ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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ReportsThe New Tools of Economic Warfare
Sanctions experts at the Center for a New American Security and NYU School of Law's Center on Law and Security assess the effectiveness of sanctions following the aftermath o...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg, Dr. Daniel Drezner, Julia Solomon-Strauss & Zachary K. Goldman
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ReportsReefs, Rocks, and the Rule of Law
CNAS experts Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper and Harry Krejsa assess the regional and global implications of a ruling by the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea under the Perman...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper & Harry Krejsa
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ReportsAssured Resolve
For the better part of the past two decades, the world’s attention has been consumed by a string of crises in the Middle East and Asia. From conventional wars in Afghanistan a...
By Julianne Smith & Jerry Hendrix
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ReportsAutonomous Weapons and Human Control
Nations from around the world met at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss autonomous weapons, potential future weapons that would select and engage targets on ...
By Paul Scharre & Kelley Sayler
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ReportsNeeds Assessment
An assessment by the CNAS Military, Veterans, and Society Program finds that Dallas-Fort Worth area veterans face diverse challenges including access to VA services, economics...
By Phillip Carter, Katherine Kidder & Amy Schafer
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ReportsNine Lessons for Navigating National Security
Few periods in modern world history have been as complicated and tumultuous as the one the next U.S. administration will confront. A long list of international problems will c...
By Michèle Flournoy
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ReportsNetworked Transparency
The South China Sea is strategically important and resource-rich, crucial to the lifeblood of U.S. and Indo-Pacific economies. Roughly one-third, or $5 trillion, of the world’...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper, CDR Jeff Chism, Harry Krejsa, Paul Scharre & Van Jackson
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ReportsStrategic Resilience
Evermay Dialogue Co-Chairs Dr. Sachiko Kuno and the Honorable Michèle Flournoy released a new report on a U.S.-Japan alliance action plan for all-hazard emergency management. ...
By Michèle Flournoy, Dr. Sachiko Kuno, Maki Fukami & Patrick M. Cronin
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Autonomous Weapons and Operational Risk
20YY Future of Warfare Initiative Director Paul Scharre examines the risks in future autonomous weapons that would choose their own targets and the potential for catastrophic ...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Commentary: A Bipartisan National Security Agenda for an Election Year
CNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy and CNAS President Richard Fontaine have written a new commentary laying out issues the Obama administration and Congress can address before the next...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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ReportsRed Alert
While the U.S. Navy has long enjoyed freedom of action throughout the world’s oceans, the days of its unchallenged primacy may be coming to a close. In recent years, a number ...
By Kelley Sayler
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CNAS Commentary: High Stakes at the Sunnylands Summit
Center for a New American Security Asia-Pacific Security Program Director Patrick Cronin and Pereira International CEO Derwin Pereira have written a new commentary as Presiden...
By Derwin Pereira & Patrick M. Cronin
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ReportsThe Labyrinth Within
The current austere fiscal environment has brought the debate over the defense budget to the forefront of policymakers’ agendas. Technical terminology once deemed irrelevant f...
By Michelle Shevin-Coetzee
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ReportsFrom Sanctuary to Battlefield
The United States is profoundly reliant on the ability to use space for its security. Though little appreciated outside of professional and expert circles, space – or, more pr...
By Elbridge Colby
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The Presence Problem: Naval Presence and National Strategy
Experts examine naval presence around the globe and recommend another look at the execution of our national strategy....
By Jerry Hendrix