3+ week, 3+ day ago  (49+ words) CNAS adjunct senior fellow Rachel Ziemba joined NPR's Planet Money to discuss the traffic jam of shipping vessels outside the Strait of Hormuz, political risk insurance, and more. Listen to the full interview on NPR. By Robert D. Kaplan Energy, Economics…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (249+ words) By: Stacie Pettyjohn and Molly Campbell If adopted, the Hellscape concept could strengthen Taiwan's asymmetric defense and guide the nation's approach to drone production, operational concepts, and force design. A crucial first step toward actualizing the Hellscape concept is acquisition…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (98+ words) Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies. In a week when airpower news came from every angle, Becca Wasser, CNAS adjunct senior fellow, was on top of it all. She leads defense research at Bloomberg Economics, and…...

4+ mon, 46+ min ago  (286+ words) In recent years, U.S. policymakers have paid increasing attention to the vulnerabilities of supply chains, especially in terms of securing access to critical minerals. Yet the security of maritime ... This essay is the winner of Pathfinder, a national security essay contest…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (187+ words) Back to All Events Nov 10, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm ET Recent advances in frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models have sparked intense interest in their potential to transform cyber offense and defense alike. How capable are today's AI systems at cyber-relevant tasks? Which emerging…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (201+ words) Washington, September 23, 2025A new report from the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) examines how emerging artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities could disrupt the cyber offense-defense balance by disproportionately empowering attackers. In Tipping the Scales: Emerging AI Capabilities and the Cyber…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (510+ words) Protecting the Joint Force in the Drone Age By: Stacie Pettyjohn and Molly Campbell After decades of air dominance and a near monopoly on precision strike, the United States now faces a dramatically different, more hostile world as the proliferation…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (86+ words) Navigating Digital Potential and Cyber Peril By: Vivek Chilukuri, Lisa Curtis, Janet Egan, Morgan Peirce, Elizabeth Whatcott and Nathaniel Schochet Against this backdrop, Indo-Pacific governments have taken historic steps to strengthen their resilience in a cyber landscape that has grown…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (128+ words) By: Geoffrey Gertz and Caleb Withers The Secretary of Commerce has initiated a Section 232 investigation to determine the effects on the national security of imports of semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and their derivative products. In this submission, we analyze…...