Defense and Security
CSIS’s defense and security research is led by the Missile Defense Project; Project on Nuclear Issues; Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group; Aerospace Security Project; Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program; Burke Chair in Strategy; Smart Women, Smart Power; Defending Democratic Institutions Project; and Defense Budget Analysis.

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Maximizing Impact Through Coordinated Security and Counterdrug Cooperation in Ecuador
Commentary by Margarita R. Seminario — May 20, 2025

Can Ukraine Fight Without U.S. Aid? Seven Questions to Ask
Report by Iselin Brady, Daniel Byman, Riley McCabe, and Alexander Palmer — May 19, 2025


Senator McConnell - CSIS's 2025 Global Security Forum Prepared Remarks
Commentary — May 13, 2025
Past Events

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2025 GSF: Shaping the Spear: Service Vice Chiefs on the Future of U.S. Military Power

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2025 GSF: What Works? Leading Disruption in Industry and Government

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2025 GSF: The Last Escudo: Power, Production, and the Path to Victory

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2025 GSF: Reflections on “American Leadership and American Strength” with Senator Mitch McConnell

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2025 GSF: Defense Modernization and Innovation: A Conversation with Congressional National Security Leaders

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2025 GSF: The Evolution of America’s Defense Industrial Base: From Freedom’s Forge to the Last Supper to the First Breakfast

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2025 Global Security Forum, Strength Through the Storm: Industry, Innovation, and the Future of U.S. Military Power
Related Programs

Defense and Security

Aerospace Security Project

Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy

Civil-Military Relations

Cooperative Defense Project

Defending Democratic Institutions

Defense Budget Analysis

Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group

Defense 360

Gray Zone Project

Hidden Reach

Missile Defense Project

Project on Nuclear Issues

Risk and Foresight Group

Smart Women, Smart Power

Strategic Futures

Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program
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Seven Revolutions and Diamond 6 Leadership Workshop
Report by Scott Aughenbaugh — August 16, 2013
Why Utilities Want Small Modular Reactors
Commentary by George David Banks — August 13, 2013
Yemen and U.S. Security
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Robert M. Shelala II, Omar Mohamed — August 8, 2013
Military Strategy Forum: Major General Steven L. Kwast, Director, U.S. Air Force Quadrennial Defense Review
Event — August 6, 2013
Failing Transition: The New 1230 Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — August 6, 2013
Closing Embassies in the Middle East and the Threat from al Qaeda
Critical Questions by Zack Fellman and Thomas M. Sanderson — August 6, 2013
Innovative Immigration and Border Control Reform
Report by Stephanie Sanok Kostro and Scott F. Mann — August 6, 2013
Information Communications Technology and Homegrown Extremism
Critical Questions by Ally Pregulman — August 5, 2013
U.S.-India Homeland Security Cooperation
Event — August 2, 2013
Transition in Afghanistan
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — August 1, 2013