[1] CAST publishes two journals — the English-language Moscow Defense Brief and the Russian-language Eksport Vooruzheniy ("arms exports") — and the daily Russian media digest Periscope.
[2] In addition, CAST has written a number of books, including the critically acclaimed The Tanks of August (2010), Russia's New Army (2011), and Brothers Armed: Military Aspects of the Crisis in Ukraine (2014).
[citation needed][5] CAST offers consultation, analysis, and information services to Russian government agencies, defense industry companies, banks, and investment institutions.
The Centre's researchers collaborate on an ad hoc basis with leading Russian experts, journalists, defense specialists and civil servants working on similar issues.
The last two Russian language books from CAST were The Defense Industry and Arms Trade of China and Radio-electronic Warfare: From Experiments of the past to the Future Decisive Front.
[11] On December 21, 2016, CAST published the Russian-language book The Defense Industry and Military-Technical Cooperation with Foreign States of India.
Edited by Ruslan Pukhov, director of CAST, and Dr. Christopher Marsh, professor of National Security and Strategic Studies at the US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Elite Warriors is in English and it covers the special operations forces of Algeria, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, and Ukraine.
[15] In 2018 the books Thunder Sky: Aviation in Modern Conflicts (edited by former Commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces Viktor Bondarev) and Waiting for the Storm: South Caucasus were published.
[16][17] CAST's latest book is Global Arms Market: Structure, Tendencies, Challenges, it was published with support of Rosoboronexport.
[20] The organization was founded in June 1997 by graduates of Moscow State Institute of International Relations[2] and it has close contacts with the Russian arms industry, the Rosoboronexport consortium, and senior government officials.