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CNA produces some 500 analyses each year. Those that are available for public release can be found on this page.
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China’s Military Support Facility in Djibouti: The Economic and Security Dimensions of China’s First Overseas Base

Applying Past Lessons to the Counter-ISIS Campaign

Shining a Light on the Western Balkans: Internal Vulnerabilities and Malign Influence from Russia, Terrorism, and Transnational Organized Crime

Sources of Resilience in the Lord’s Resistance Army

Reserve Officer Commissioning Program (ROCP) Officer and Reserve Personnel Readiness

The Role of Special Operations Forces in Global Competition

Russia's Approach to Cyber Warfare

Navy Manpower Planning

The Same, Yet Different: United States and Gulf State Interests in the Post-Arab Spring Maghreb

American Naval Policy, Strategy, Plans and Operations in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century

The Future of U.S.-India Naval Relations

Get Ready for the Second Phase of the Chinese Military

AI, Robots, and Swarms: Issues, Questions, and Recommended Studies

The Role of Groceries in Response to Catastrophes

Determining the Statistical Power of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Anderson-Darling Goodness-of-Fit Tests via Monte Carlo Simulation

Gaming Sea-based Multinational HA/DR Operations at PACOM Amphibious Leaders Symposium 2016

Potential Consequences of E-Cigarette Use: Is Youth Health Going Up in Smoke?

The Impact of the CNO’s Strategic Studies Group

The CNO Strategic Studies Group, 1981–1995

Becoming a Great “Maritime Power”: A Chinese Dream

Las Vegas After-Action Assessment

Water Resource Competition in the Brahmaputra River Basin: China, India, and Bangladesh

Cumulative Land Cover Impacts of Proposed Transmission Pipelines in the Delaware River Basin

Retirement Choice 2016

Asking the Right Questions: A Framework for Assessing Counterterrorism Actions