Center for Strategic and International Studies | CSIS

April 19, 2023 | Benjamin Jensen, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Competition is Inevitable, War is Not: Using Games to Rethink the U.S.-Chinese Relationship

Elected leaders need tabletop exercises, crisis simulations, and wargames to help them visualize and describe modern strategy. From questions about technology and intellectual property to food...

April 3, 2023 | John Hardie, Peter Doran

Ruble Rumble

Offensive and Defensive Measures to Defeat Russia in the Economic Domain

March 15, 2023 | David Adesnik |

A Strategy to End the Systematic Theft of Humanitarian Aid in Syria

March 1, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Turkey After Erdogan

February 15, 2023 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Arsenal

Assessing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program

December 16, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

FDD’s Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: The Year in Review

December 8, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Neither Here Nor There

Jordan and the Abraham Accords

October 28, 2022 | Samantha Ravich, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

China’s Accelerating CEEW Campaign

October 28, 2022 | Mathew Ha |

The Evolution of Kim Jong Un’s ‘All-Purpose Sword’

September 15, 2022 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

The Weaponization of Capital

Strategic Implications of China’s Private Equity/Venture Capital Playbook

September 12, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz

PGMs: Iran’s Precision-Guided Munitions Project in the Shadow of a Nuclear Deal

August 25, 2022 | Bradley Bowman, Maj. Brian Leitzke

Avoiding empty cockpits: Addressing the Air Force’s pilot shortage problem

Fielding the best aircraft in the world won’t matter if the Air Force can’t retain enough well-trained pilots to fly them, argue FDD’s Bradley Bowman and Maj. Brian Leitzke.

July 26, 2022 | David Kilcullen |

Missing the Mark

Reassessing U.S. Military Aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces

May 12, 2022 | David Adesnik |

The White House Is Bending the Law on Syria Sanctions

February 17, 2022 | Rep. Mike Gallagher |

Battle Force 2025

A Plan to Defend Taiwan Within the Decade

December 9, 2021 | David Adesnik, Matthew Zweig

Biden Administration Creates Potential Sanctions Loophole for Assad

The Biden administration in late November lifted a longstanding rule that forbade non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from doing business with the regime of Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad, justifying the...

September 27, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

AUKUS: Good Goals, Bad Implementation

Now begins the real work for the United States and its democratic allies: cooperating to strengthen their eroding deterrence in the Indo-Pacific.

August 9, 2021 | David Adesnik |

The Road To Damascus Is Paved With Good Intentions

Excerpt Carsten Wieland, Syria and the Neutrality Trap: The Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Regimes (Bloomsbury, 2021) Bashar al Assad relied on Russian warplanes to ensure his...

June 14, 2021 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Hodgson, Austin Blair

Behind the Black Bloc

An Overview of Militant Anarchism and Anti-Fascism

June 3, 2021 | Cameron Khansarinia, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Why America Should Hope the Regime in Iran Collapses

Advancing the collapse of the Islamic Republic will not bog the United States down into another Middle Eastern war or cost further blood and treasure. It can be done by maintaining sanctions on the Islamic Republic and its officials and by beginning a policy of maximum support of the Iranian people.