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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

This article was originally published in War on the Rocks.

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, ...

Partners decide how AI systems are configured and what rules govern their use. But key dependencies underneath that deployment layer—including advanced chips, frontier AI models, and cloud ...

Richard Fontaine is chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He serves concurrently as a member of Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust and as Executive Director of the ...