AI Chips for China With two new policies, President Donald Trump has implemented his pledge to allow sales of NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips to China in exchange for a quarter of the ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has told the world that “we don’t need to worry about it.” I disagree—the security situation in the Strait is a source of immense worry, ...

Paul Scharre joins Emily and Geoff to talk about how commercial markets for AI might evolve and how different market outcomes may mean different types of risks for U.S. national security interests.

On March 2, 2026, in a speech at France’s Île Longue base, French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled major changes to France’s nuclear deterrence doctrine. First, Macron announced an increase, the ...

Paul Scharre is the executive vice president at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He is the award-winning author of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. His ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future warfare question. In U.S. strikes against Iran, AI systems born from Project Maven have helped identify and prioritize thousands of targets, ...

Timely action can ensure the United States secures the economic and national security benefits of the coming quantum era.

While Iran is focused on survival: the leadership can rebound and rebuild as long as Iran’s political system, military structure and economic foundations remain intact. Watch the full interview on ...

Disrupted energy flows are a major worry for the global economy. Iran knows that. And today, it has learnt that disrupting the Strait is easy and relatively cheap: low effort, high impact.

In June 2024, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced it was stepping back into the nuclear reactor business when the Army launched its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) program, a ...

This article was originally published in Foreign Affairs. In 1988, the military historian James Stokesbury observed that democracies are best at fighting either little wars, which are reserved for ...