Good benefits but challenging work-life balance - Fellow Center for a New American Security Employee Review

The culture is fantastic, and there's a great sense community

pay isn't fantastic for interns (stipend) but much better than most other internships in the field

- Allows junior researchers to publish, engage with media, and start building an independent profile as an expert - Is generally well respected as a leading voice on national security issues -

- Limited room for upwards growth and relatively poor pay, but these are both common in the think tank space - Often subscribes to a hawkish, primacist approach to U.S foreign policy, including a tendency to over-securitize certain issues, engage in threat inflation, and promote defense industrial interests (note that defense contractors give large sums of money to the organization)