Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Bipartisan defense and foreign-policy think tank in Washington, DC. Hosts the Missile Defense Project, directed by tom-karako, which is a leading public source of analysis on U.S. air- and missile-defense posture.
Recent UAP/defense relevance
- April 2026 CSIS estimates of U.S. munitions expenditure during operation-epic-fury: ~850/3,100 Tomahawks, 1,000/4,400 JASSMs, 290/360 THAAD interceptors, up to 1,430/2,330 Patriots (src-epic-fury-update-2026-04).
- CSIS commentary (Karako) on the post-Iran-war C-UAS surge by jiatf-401, including the line that the drone problem has been “artificially divided” between overseas combat and homeland threats (src-counter-drone-middle-east-jiatf-2026-04).