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 ...

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 ...

China is leveraging its globally dominant commercial shipbuilding industry to support its naval modernization—and foreign companies are inadvertently helping. This report outlines how the United ...

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, ...

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.