Defense and Security
Amid a rapid shift in the global balance of power, CSIS offers practical solutions to the hardest national security strategy questions. CSIS’s defense and security research covers issues including traditional missile defense, nuclear weapons, aerospace security, irregular threats, democratic institutions, and the use of AI and critical minerals in defense technologies.
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How Russia Is Reshaping Command and Control for AI-Enabled Warfare
Report by Kateryna Bondar — February 10, 2026
Northern Connections: The European Arctic by 2035
Report by Max Bergmann, Otto Svendsen, Andreas Raspotnik, Robert Habeck, Elizabeth Buchanan, and Gabriella Gricius — February 10, 2026
What Is Next After the Suicide Attack in Pakistan?
Critical Questions by Alexander Palmer and Alexander Margolis — February 6, 2026
Tracking China’s Increased Military Activities in the Indo-Pacific in 2025
Commentary by Bonny Lin, Brian Hart, and Truly Tinsley — February 5, 2026
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The Impossible State Live Podcast: What Does Trump National Defense Strategy Say About Korea?
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Inside Japan’s High-Stakes Snap Election
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Trump's National Defense Strategy and Asia | The Capital Cable #128
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Securing Critical Mineral Supply: A Government–Industry Dialogue
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Unpacking Lee's Visits to China and Japan | The Capital Cable #127
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It's More than Just Drones: Industrial Base Lessons from the Conflict in Ukraine | All About the Base
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Tracking the Defense Budget: US Defense Budget Cuts, Sequestration, the FY2014 Budget, and the FY2014-FY2022 Forecast
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — July 15, 2013
Military Strategy Forum: Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert and General James F. Amos
Event — July 11, 2013
Vietnam’s President Visiting the White House to Talk Strategy
Commentary by Murray Hiebert and Phoebe De Padua — July 11, 2013
Why Should the United States Join the Pacific Alliance?
Critical Questions by Carl Meacham — July 10, 2013
10th Anniversary of the Proliferation Security Initiative
Event — July 9, 2013
US and Iranian Strategic Competition: Latin America, Africa, and the Peripheral States
Report by Brandon Fite and Chloe Coughlin-Schulte — July 9, 2013
What Next for Army Force Structure?
Critical Questions by Nathan Freier and Jacquelyn Guy — July 9, 2013
Project on Nuclear Issues
Report by Stephanie Spies and Sarah Weiner — July 8, 2013
Impact Player: Hwang Joon-kook
Newsletter by Andy Lim, Marie DuMond — July 3, 2013
Pacific Partners Outlook: Rudd Resurrected, or Kevin II
Newsletter by Ernest Z. Bower — July 3, 2013