The Trump Administration’s recent decision to revoke the EPA “endangerment finding” is emblematic of a trend in American politics — to ignore science when it makes people uncomfortable. But turning a ...

The U.S. government currently has no systematic way to identify whether a cyberattack resulted from novel AI capabilities or more conventional methods.

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.

The Big Idea For a decade, Taiwan has relied on a “porcupine” strategy to defend against a potential invasion by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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, ...