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 ...

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 ...

Doctrine does not direct or mandate action, but it could inform decisions by providing a shared way of thinking across 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, ...

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

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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 ...

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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 ...

This article was originally published in Foreign Policy.

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