CSA 2025 Annual Report

Highlights

1. 2025 was the year the post-October 7 environment moved from acute crisis to a new strategic baseline.
   CSA worked across five tracks to keep policymakers, industry leaders, and civic institutions current at the intersection of national security, energy, and the U.S.–Israel relationship.
2. Three new primers published, each inside 72 hours of the underlying event.
   Syria Update (January), Israel–Iran 12-Day War One Week Primer (June), and the Doha Strike Primer (September).
3. Four polling waves fielded across Israel and the U.S. in 2025.
   Two Israeli waves (February and August) and two U.S. waves (March and June). The June U.S. wave bracketed the Iran strike.
4. Briefings delivered across the country, plus three multi-day state delegations.
   Iowa (January), North Dakota (June), and Alaska (September). Senior staff conducted bipartisan meetings with hundreds of congressional staff.
5. The Peace Through Prosperity framework was reinforced through 2025's data.
   Energy independence as national security: +56 net. Disarmament in Lebanon: 65%. Security arrangement with Israel in Syria: 64%. Abraham Accords in Israel: 75%.

What CSA Did in 2025

2025 was the year the post-October 7 environment moved from acute crisis into a new strategic baseline. CSA worked across the year to keep policymakers, industry leaders, and civic institutions current at the intersection of U.S. national security, American energy, and the U.S.–Israel relationship. Five tracks carried the work.

Research. The Israel–Hamas War Report continued as the nation's only continuously updated, open-source, hyperlinked chronicle of the war, used through 2025 in briefings to congressional offices, five state capitols, and national energy conferences.

Primers. CSA published three new primers in 2025: the Syria Update (January), the Israel–Iran 12-Day War One Week Primer (June), and the Doha Strike Primer (September). Each was produced inside the first seventy-two hours of the underlying event and circulated to legislators, executive-branch officials, and industry leaders during fast-moving developments.

Polling. CSA fielded two rounds of Israeli public-opinion polling (February and August 2025), continuing a series that opened in July 2024. CSA also conducted two waves of U.S. national polling (March and June 2025), continuing the U.S. series that opened in September 2024. The American June 2025 wave was fielded by Morning Consult and bracketed President Trump's announcement of U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites; pre- and post-strike samples showed no statistically significant differences.

Nationwide briefings. CSA delivered briefings across the country in 2025, including the Indiana Oil and Gas Association (Evansville, March), the Colorado Legislative Briefing with Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), American Petroleum Institute (API), and Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) (Denver, March), the New Mexico Friends of Israel Caucus Legislative Briefing (April), the Main Street Congressional Caucus (Washington, April), the North Dakota Legislative Briefing hosted by the North Dakota Petroleum Council with Governor Kelly Armstrong (Bismarck, May), the Independent Petroleum Association of America Annual Meeting (Williamsburg, June), the Midwestern Association of State Departments of Agriculture (MASDA) Conference in North Dakota with Governor Armstrong and Energy and Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring (Medora, June), the Energy Council Annual Meeting on Energy Security, the Abraham Accords, and the Changing Middle East (Anchorage, September), and Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue (New York, October). On Capitol Hill, CSA senior staff conducted an extensive series of bipartisan meetings, engaging with hundreds of congressional staff across both chambers.

State delegations. CSA deployed three multi-day state delegations in 2025: Iowa in January (Attorney General Brenna Bird, House Majority Leader Matt Windschitl, Speaker Pat Grassley, Treasurer Roby Smith), North Dakota in June (Governor Armstrong, Attorney General Drew Wrigley, Commissioner Goehring), and Alaska in September (Lt. Governor Nancy Dahlstrom, Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Commissioner John Boyle, the Alyeska Pipeline, ConocoPhillips, and Santos).

The Iran War Rapid Response

When the June 2025 Israel–Iran 12-Day War broke out, CSA produced a coordinated 72-hour rapid response: live situational updates, a dedicated war-update briefing series, and six exclusive sessions featuring Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, Lt. Col. (res.) Sarit Zehavi of the Alma Research and Education Center (ALMA) Research and Education Center, Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi, the Deputy Chief of Mission Eliav Benjamin at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, and a former senior intelligence officer from the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel. The Iran War One Week Primer that emerged from this work is now in use by legislators across the country.

What's New at CSA

Leadership additions. New Advisory Board members in 2025 include the Honorable Elliott Abrams (Chairman, Tikvah; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); former National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for the Near East and North Africa) and the Honorable Peter Deutsch (former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives). New Board of Directors members include Brooke Baum (Devon Energy), Shea Loper (Ovintiv), Ron Gusek (Liberty Energy), Dr. Emil Pitkin (Sandstorm), Jason Kalisman (The Talisman Group), James Tisch (Loews Corporation), and Joshua Katzen (JNS, CAMERA).

Partnerships. CSA opened a new partnership with the Energy Council, a nonpartisan legislative organization representing fourteen U.S. energy-producing states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming) and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. CSA also launched an academic partnership with Yeshiva University's Senator Joseph Lieberman–Mitzner Center for Public Service and Advocacy. Partnership Society additions in 2025 include the Illinois, U.S., and Colorado Oil and Gas Associations; the Energy Equipment and Infrastructure Alliance; and the Energy Council.

Staff additions. Brett Goldman joined as Director of Outreach, leading CSA's national engagement strategy. Isaac Choua joined as Director of Operations and Programming, overseeing internal operations, program development, and CSA's national briefing schedule.

CSA in public service. Several CSA Board and Advisory Board members took senior positions in the current administration: Chris Wright (Secretary of Energy; former CEO of Liberty Energy), Ambassador Pete Hoekstra (U.S. Ambassador to Canada; former CSA Advisory Board), John Jovanovic (President and Chairman of the Export–Import Bank of the United States; former CSA Advisory Board), and Jeff Wilson (Senior Advisor for Energy Dominance at the Export–Import Bank; former CSA Vice Chair).

Looking at 2026

The Peace Through Prosperity framework that runs through CSA's work, domestic abundance as the foundation of credible foreign policy, alliance-based infrastructure development, sustained pressure on adversaries through structural redundancy rather than permanent conflict, was reinforced through 2025's polling, briefings, and field work.

The American public reads energy independence as a national-security gain (Net Agree +56 in the June 2025 wave). Lebanese voters back the consolidation of arms under state authority at 65%. Syrian voters support a security arrangement with Israel at 64%. Israeli voters back the Abraham Accords at 75% under wartime conditions. The doctrine's central claim, that resources and alliances shape security outcomes, held against the data in five separate publics.

CSA enters 2026 with expanded staff, an expanded board, a deepened state footprint, and new institutional partnerships across energy-producing states and academia.