Richard Fontaine, CEO of the national security think tank CNAS, says greater clarity on U.S. President Donald Trump’s objectives is needed to make progress in negotiations with Iran. He believes ...

How could munitions constraints limit the ongoing campaign against Iran? How quickly can industry replenish what’s been ...

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Around the Table is a three-question interview series from the Make Room email newsletter as a part of the CNAS Make Room initiative. Each edition features a conversation with a peer in the national ...

This article was originally published in Foreign Policy.

Yet a more fundamental question looms: How will humans retain control of AI-driven warfare fought at machine speed? For the United States to remain the world’s leading military power, it must both ...

Paul Scharre, executive vice president at the Center for a New American Security, spoke with Today, Explained co-host Sean Rameswaram about how AI and the military are becomin... This article was ...

For a decade, Taiwan has relied on a “porcupine” strategy to defend against a potential invasion by the People’s Republic of ...

What is the US trying to accomplish with continued, massive military strikes in Iran? The Center for a New American Security’s Stacie Pettyjohn joins host Aaron Mehta to dive into the most critical ...

Anthropic reported in November 2025 that Chinese threat actors used its Claude model to launch widespread cyberattacks on ...

Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security, joined Sky News to discuss the future of Iran in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes. This article was originally published in Foreign ...

The US and Israel attacked Iran over the weekend, and Congress is scrambling to catch up. In this episode, Breaking Defense’s Aaron Mehta is joined by Stacie Pettyjohn of the Center for New American ...