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Paul Scharre, executive vice president at the Center for a New American Security, spoke with Today, Explained co-host Sean Rameswaram about how AI and the military are becomin... This article was ...

This article was originally published in Foreign Policy.

Yet a more fundamental question looms: How will humans retain control of AI-driven warfare fought at machine speed? For the United States to remain the world’s leading military power, it must both ...

What is the US trying to accomplish with continued, massive military strikes in Iran? The Center for a New American Security’s Stacie Pettyjohn joins host Aaron Mehta to dive into the most critical ...

The US and Israel attacked Iran over the weekend, and Congress is scrambling to catch up. In this episode, Breaking Defense’s Aaron Mehta is joined by Stacie Pettyjohn of the Center for New American ...

Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security, joined Sky News to discuss the future of Iran in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes. This article was originally published in Foreign ...

Anthropic reported in November 2025 that Chinese threat actors used its Claude model to launch widespread cyberattacks on ...

Bloomberg Economics Defense Lead and CNAS adjunct senior fellow Becca Wasser discusses Iran's retaliation to US-Israeli strikes over the weekend, and what potential moves lie ahead from the Trump ...

For a decade, Taiwan has relied on a “porcupine” strategy to defend against a potential invasion by the People’s Republic of ...

John “Jack” Shanahan, CNAS adjunct senior fellow and former director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center at the Pentagon, reacts to the president’s directive for federal agencies to cease ...