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We Advance Understanding of How Energy Security and Strategic Alliances Shape U.S. National Security

Through research, educational programming, and engagement initiatives, CSA helps audiences better understand the geopolitical and policy dynamics influencing the United States and the Middle East.

About CSA

The Council for a Secure America (CSA) is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening United States national security through education, research, and strategic analysis. CSA operates at the intersection of American energy security, natural resources, enduring alliances, and the evolving global geopolitical landscape.

Founded in the 1980s by leaders in the American energy sector and the Jewish community, CSA was established on the premise that domestic strength underpins foreign policy. For decades, U.S. strategic decision-making was constrained by reliance on foreign energy and exposure to instability in critical regions. Advances in American energy production altered that reality, reshaping U.S. leverage abroad, strengthening alliances, and reducing vulnerability to external pressure. From its earliest work, CSA focused on demonstrating how energy security, national security, and foreign policy are inseparable. As the strategic environment has evolved, so has CSA’s mission. Energy security remains central, but it now operates alongside other critical pillars of national resilience, including access to minerals, agricultural capacity, and secure supply chains. Together, these natural resources shape economic stability, alliance cohesion, and strategic competition. CSA’s work is informed by a Peace Through Prosperity doctrine, which holds that shared material strength and economic resilience are foundational to long-term security and stability.

Today, CSA deepens public understanding of how these forces interact in practice. Through national briefings, public-opinion polling, research initiatives, and rapid-response analysis, CSA provides policymakers, industry leaders, and civic institutions with timely, responsible insight during moments of geopolitical uncertainty. This work includes continuously updated, open-source conflict reporting, along with primers and emergency briefings developed in response to fast-moving global events. These resources are used across Congress, state governments, industry forums, and community institutions nationwide.

CSA is not an advocacy organization. It does not promote political outcomes or policy prescriptions. Its role is educational, providing clarity and strategic context at moments when informed decision-making matters most.

History

The Council for a Secure America (CSA) is dedicated to advancing United States energy independence and strengthening the strategic alliance between the United States and Israel. Founded by leading domestic energy producers and prominent figures in the Jewish community, the CSA is the first organization of its kind to unite the American oil and gas industry with the pro-Israel community around a shared national security vision.

The CSA operates on the conviction that American energy dominance is the cornerstone of United States national security. A self-sufficient America, free from dependence on foreign energy, is better positioned to pursue principled foreign policy, fortify enduring alliances, and promote stability in the Middle East. Central to this vision is the United States relationship with Israel, its closest and most strategically vital ally in the region, bound together by shared democratic values and common interests.

The CSA believes that smart domestic energy policy and sound foreign policy are inseparable. When America leads in energy production, it leads in the world.

Mission

The CSA believes that smart domestic energy policy and sound foreign policy are inseparable. When America leads in energy production, it leads in the world.

Mandate

The CSA fulfills its mission through education, research, and strategic engagement across government, industry, and civic institutions.

On energy policy, the CSA educates key audiences on the importance of expanding domestic oil and natural gas production, advancing energy conservation, and developing alternative and renewable energy sources. The United States holds the largest oil reserves in the world and is the leading producer of both crude oil and natural gas globally. The CSA works to ensure that policymakers, industry leaders, and the public understand how continued investment in domestic production and emerging extraction technologies can achieve full North American energy self-sufficiency, strengthening the national economy, improving the balance of payments, and generating hundreds of thousands of American jobs.

On foreign policy and regional security, the CSA provides rigorous analysis of the evolving geopolitical landscape in the Middle East, with a focus on the critical role energy plays in shaping alliances and stability. The CSA highlights the significance of milestones such as the 2020 Abraham Accords, in which United States energy statecraft helped broker normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab states, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco.

In response to the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel, the CSA launched the CSA War Room, a dedicated initiative for strategic analysis and public education. Its flagship publication, the CSA Israel-Hamas War Report, draws on more than 100 verified open sources to provide a comprehensive examination of the conflict’s geopolitical context, military developments, and the role of energy security. This continuously updated report has been briefed to the Joint Congressional Western Caucus, the Main Street Caucus, the Abraham Accords Caucus, the Congressional Hellenic Israel Alliance Caucus, the Wyoming State Capitol, the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, numerous Congressional offices, and prominent civic institutions nationwide.

The CSA advances its work through educational symposia, legislative briefings, industry delegations, and research missions to Israel, ensuring that its insights reach the audiences best positioned to act on them.