Benchmarking and evaluating AI requires a bottom-up, associational model of governance that emphasizes accountability, transparency, and the public interest to ensure that the technology furthers ...

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

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 ...

Starting in September 2024, Russia significantly ramped up its use of Shahed drones, increasing from approximately 200 launches per week to more than 1,000 per week by March 2025 as part of a ...

China has imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements and magnets in retaliation for new U.S. tariffs. These materials are vital to defense technologies, but the United States is entirely ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Ukraine devises ingenious ways to defend its population from Russia’s precision aerial bombardment, Russia’s Shahed one-way attack drones continue to operate with a cruel logic of attrition.

Critical minerals play an indispensable role in the modern economy—yet the U.S. mineral supply chain is highly vulnerable. This edited volume offers comprehensive analysis and recommendations to ...

Taking Greenland through force or coercion would not just be a bad deal for the United States—it could become a legacy-defining unforced error for the Trump ...

On January 7, Indonesia became the first Southeast Asian nation to formally join BRICS, an intergovernmental bloc consisting of countries from the Global South.