In 2023, Ukraine claimed it was already deploying autonomous drones without human oversight that hit Russian targets. In the ...

As defense cooperation among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea grows, it will enable these countries to offset vulnerabilities relative to the U.S.

With the recent confirmations of Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – two of the most controversial of President Donald ...

As Russia and China increasingly aim to modernize their nuclear arsenals and integrate AI into their militaries, it is ...

To permanently remove Hamas from power, the United States must work alongside its Arab and Israeli partners to support the PA ...

In Saudi Arabia, U.S. officials met with Russian counterparts to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. Missing from these talks were Ukrainian and European representatives. Geoff Bennett analyzed the ...

NATO policy expert and adjunct senior fellow in the CNAS Transatlantic Security Program, Jim Townsend joins to discuss what to expect when European leaders meet on Ukraine. Watch the full interview on ...

James Joye Townsend Jr. is an adjunct senior fellow in the CNAS Transatlantic Security Program. After eight years as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for European and NATO Policy, Jim ...

Andrea Kendall-Taylor is a senior fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She works on national security challenges facing the ...

Those two trends converge in what this report calls the “AI-nuclear nexus.” The authors write that the most critical risks of the AI-nuclear nexus can ...

The answer lies not just in DeepSeek’s top engineers or innovative training techniques, but in the vast political and financial ecosystem China has built to accelerate AI innovation. Over the past ...

Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.