Affordable mass has become the watchword of defense modernization, be it swarms of drones or satellite constellations. What could such an approach mean for air and missile defense? Networks of passive ...

The CSIS Missile Defense Project is pleased to rollout our new report, Mesh Sensing for Air and Missile Defense.

CSIS mourns the loss of our Chief Communications Officer, Andrew Schwartz. For 20 years, he led with vision and integrity, shaping how CSIS engaged the world. His leadership, mentorship, and legacy in ...

There are five main options for targeting Iran’s Fordow facility: the GBU-57, sustained Israeli strikes, sabotage, nuclear weapons, and diplomacy. Each varies in its potential impact on Iran’s nuclear ...

Russia has performed poorly on the battlefield in Ukraine and will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark in the summer of 2025. New CSIS data details Russia's slow rate of advance, heavy losses of ...

A new Critical Questions piece from Phil Luck explores the Court of International Trade's decision to strike down President Trump's IEEPA tariffs.

Newly proposed tariffs threaten to derail the United States’ clean energy sector’s recent boom, jeopardizing progress, and grid reliability while failing to expand domestic clean tech manufacturing ...

Introduction On April 2, 2025—a date President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day”—the administration announced the most sweeping tariff hike since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the 1930 law best ...

The United States’ military strategy of rushing to denial in the Western Pacific may undermine its political strategy of “strategic ambiguity” over Taiwan if Beijing views it as an undeclared shift to ...

Since January 2025, a series of attacks have targeted Tesla facilities and vehicles across the United States, bringing renewed attention to a long-standing debate among policymakers, scholars, and law ...

The United States leads in AI, but staying ahead requires scaling compute, energy, and capital. This commentary previews new Energy Security and Climate Change research on AI infrastructure, domestic ...

As President Trump reenvisions U.S. AI leadership, DeepSeek presents cyber risks that may affect the administration’s calculus of balancing innovation and security, as well as U.S. partners, allies, ...