National Security

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Expert Take
More Oil, Same War: Why Increased Exports Aren’t a Sign of Iran’s Imminent Defeat
October 5, 2026
By Max Boot
Expert Take
Trump’s AI Safety Pact Is Toothless. But There Is a Path Forward.
October 1, 2026
By Connor Martin
Expert Take
Why AI’s Biggest Rivals Are Suddenly Calling for Restraint
September 15, 2026
By Connor Martin
Expert Take
Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, the United States Is Unprepared for Terrorism’s Next Wave
September 8, 2026
By Bruce Hoffman and Farah Pandith
Expert Take
The U.S. Is Losing the AI Credibility War—to Itself
June 22, 2026
By Matthew Ferren
Expert Take
The True Cost of Trump’s Iran War
June 19, 2026
By Max Boot
Expert Take
The G7’s Alignment on Iran and Ukraine Is Deeply Fragile
June 17, 2026
By Liana Fix
Expert Take
What Trump's National Security AI Memo Gets Right—and Leaves Unresolved
June 9, 2026
By Vinh Nguyen and Michael C. Horowitz
Meeting
Young Professionals Briefing Series: Leadership, Technology, and National Security in a Disrupted World
May 26, 2026
Expert Take
Trump Is Pulling Troops From Germany. The Missiles Are a Bigger Problem.
May 4, 2026
By Liana Fix
NSC-68 and the Dawn of the Cold War
April 14, 2026
By James M. Lindsay
Meeting
Critical Minerals From the Ground Up
March 19, 2026
Meeting
Building National Security Capacity and Policy: A Conversation with Christine Wormuth
March 9, 2026
Anthropic’s Standoff With the Pentagon Is a Test of U.S. Credibility
March 5, 2026
By Kat Duffy
How Trump Is Reshaping Immigration Enforcement
February 27, 2026
By Kaleah Haddock and Diana Roy
Trump Should Take the U.S. Military’s Warning on Iran Seriously
February 24, 2026
By Max Boot
Is the United States Abandoning Its Indo-Pacific Partners?
February 4, 2026
By Joshua Kurlantzick
Expert Take
Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Should Not Come as a Surprise
January 9, 2026
By Erin D. Dumbacher, Michael C. Horowitz and Lauren Kahn
Meeting
Silberstein Lecture: Immigration Policy and the U.S. Economy
January 7, 2026
Five Takeaways From CFR’s 2026 Conflict Risk Assessment
December 18, 2025
By Natalie Caloca, Molly Carlough and Abi McGowan
Expert Take
The First MAGA National Security Strategy
December 9, 2025
By Rebecca Lissner
Expert Take
Trump Can Break Maduro’s Hold of Venezuela Without a War
December 8, 2025
By Roxanna Vigil
Expert Take
Unpacking a Trump Twist of the National Security Strategy
December 6, 2025
By Rebecca Lissner, Will Freeman, David Sacks, Liana Fix, Steven A. Cook, Michelle Gavin and Paul B. Stares
DoD's AI Balancing Act
December 2, 2025
By Sebastian Elbaum and Jonathan Panter