A note from Richard Fontaine, Chief Executive Officer at CNAS... In 2024, CNAS tackled the nation’s most pressing national security challenges, leading the conversation with bipartisan analysis and ...

Around the Table is a three-question interview series from the Make Room email newsletter. Each edition features a conversation with a peer in the national security community to learn about their ...

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) seeks to hire an energetic, proactive, and organized Development Assistant/Associate (fundraising) to join the development team in Washington, D.C. CNAS ...

Jim Townsend, an adjunct senior fellow in the CNAS Transatlantic Security Program, joins to discuss reports that President-elect Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine intends to visit Kyiv. Any idea that ...

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 ...

The United States and Europe must invest in resisting Russia now or pay a far greater cost later. Russia is likely to walk away from the war (in Ukraine) emboldened and, once it has reconstituted its ...

The United States and its allies and partners are confronting new challenges in irregular warfare from both nonstate actors and great power competitors such as China and Russia. The renewal of great ...

War is always about choosing one risk over another. For almost three years, Europe has largely behaved as if it did not have to make that choice: It could support Ukraine’s fight against Russia and ...

The Department of Commerce plays a vital role in shaping and implementing policy at the intersection of national and economic security. From managing export controls to securing supply chains and ...