Audio Briefs

An audio version of “Canada May Be the United States’ Best Hope for Minerals Security,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Christopher Hernandez-Roy and Henry Ziemer. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “Illicit Innovation: Latin America Is Not Prepared to Fight Criminal Drones,” a new commentary by CSIS’s Henry Ziemer. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “Fighting for Information: A Theory of Tactics for the Next Army,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Benjamin Jensen. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “Trump Strikes a Deal to Restore Rare Earths Access,” a new Critical Questions by CSIS’s Gracelin Baskaran and Meredith Schwartz. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “Building a Brain of the Army Through Professional Military Education,” a new commentary by CSIS's Benjamin Jensen. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “⁠Did Trump Just Upend Decades of U.S. Middle East Policy?⁠,” a new commentary by CSIS's Mona Yacoubian. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

An audio version of “China’s Advance in Colombia in the Time of Gustavo Petro,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Evan Ellis. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “Reimagining Paul Revere: Building Drone Brigades in the U.S. Army Reserve,” a new commentary by CSIS's Benjamin Jensen. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “The U.S.-China Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement Is Not Yet Obsolete,” a new commentary by CSIS's Deborah Seligsohn and Scott Kennedy. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “Why Auctioning Military S-Band Spectrum Is a Bad Idea,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Tom Karako. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

An audio version of “Australia Doubles Down on Southeast Asia,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Kathryn Paik and Gregory B. Poling. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “White House Executive Orders Target Ambitious Nuclear Deployment in the United States and Abroad,” a new commentary by CSIS's Jane Nakano and Leslie Abrahams. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

An audio version of “Globalization Persists,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s William Alan Reinsch. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “How the European Union and Germany Can Leverage Their Monetary Power” a new commentary by CSIS’s Federico Steinberg with Miguel Otero-Iglesias. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

A short, spoken-word summary from CSIS’s Maria Snegovaya on her report with Nicholas Fenton, Tina Dolbaia, and Max Bergmann, The Russian Wartime Economy: From Sugar High to Hangover.

A short, spoken-word summary from CSIS’s Clayton Swope on his white paper, The Golden Dome as a Service: Pushing the Envelope on DOD Use of Commercial.

An audio version of “Prioritizing Air and Missile Defense Spending in the Broader Budget Debate,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Wes Rumbaugh. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

An audio version of “Ukraine’s Drone Swarms Are Destroying Russian Nuclear Bombers. What Happens Now?,” a new Critical Questions by CSIS's Masao Dahlgren and Lachlan MacKenzie. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “South Korea’s New President: Frying Pan to Fire,” a new Critical Questions by Victor Cha and Andy Lim. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

A short, spoken-word summary from CSIS’s Seth Jones and Riley McCabe on their brief, “Russia’s Battlefield Woes in Ukraine.”

An audio version of “The Implications of Poland’s Presidential Election,” a new Critical Questions by CSIS’s Donatienne Ruy. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

An audio version of “China Courts the Pacific: Key Takeaways from the 2025 China–Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ Meeting,” a new Critical Questions by CSIS’s Kathryn Paik and John Augé. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “Rethinking U.S. International Energy Finance,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Ray Cai. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “The Meaning of U.S. Troop Withdrawals from Korea,” a new Critical Questions by Victor Cha. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

An audio version of “Relative Superiority in the Drone Age: McRaven’s Playbook Meets Ukraine’s Airfield Assaults,” a new Commentary by Benjamin Jensen. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.