Africa watchers in Washington, D.C., were dispirited—though not surprised—when an email calling the continent “a peripheral—rather than a core theater for US interest” recently surfaced from the head ...

This executive dominance over treaty commitments—allowing presidents to withdraw and rejoin major international agreements at will—creates profound instability in U.S. foreign relations.

America’s top diplomat for nuclear-weapons issues, Undersecretary of State Thomas DiNanno, revealed this month that China conducted a secret underground nuclear test in June 2020. This follows ...

On February 20, the Supreme Court ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the legal statute President Donald Trump has relied upon for most of the tariffs imposed during ...

Washington, February 23, 2026 — The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is thrilled to welcome back Ambassador Nathaniel “Nate” Fick as a distinguished senior fellow with the CNAS Technology and ...

Overall, the U.S. defense industrial base has successfully supported the DoD. The established defense contractors are good at what they do; they work hard to provide the high-quality, complex, and ...

The world has shifted focus away from Afghanistan, much as it did in the lead-up to September 2001, giving dangerous networks room to rebuild. The Taliban are becoming an inspiration to other groups ...

The drone threat in the Middle East, while serious and deadly, is negligible when compared to the capabilities of China, ...

This article was originally published in Bloomberg.

The U.S. defense industrial base is at a critical inflection point. The war in Ukraine and the need to prepare for potential future conflicts exposed critical shortfalls in the pace, capacity, and ...

The drone threat is not new, with a decade of evidence of how drones have allowed even small terrorist groups to strike from the skies. The post-Cold War divestment of short-range air defenses by the ...

On February 17, 2026 Lindsey Ford 1, adjunct senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific Security Program at CNAS was invited to testify in front of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, ...