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Differentiating Innovation: From Performance Art to Production Scale
Commentary
The Department of Defense has an innovation problem, and it’s not the one you are probably thinking about. Certainly, the Department needs to improve its ability to move with ...
By Andrew Metrick
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The Pentagon Isn’t Buying Enough Ammo
Commentary
Even in today’s constrained budget environment, the U.S. Defense Department needs to do more to prioritize munitions buys and prove it has learned the lessons of Ukraine....
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Hannah Dennis
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Sharper: Nuclear Deterrence
Commentary
The United States faces two determined near-peer competitors with robust conventional military forces and increasingly advanced nuclear arsenals. In the Indo-Pacific, the Peop...
By Philip Sheers, Anna Pederson & Alexa Whaley
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Uncrewed but Confident: Forging New Rules of the Road to Avoid Accidental Escalation
Commentary
Air and maritime uncrewed platforms in the Indo-Pacific may be a promising area for developing new confidence-building measures....
By Tom Shugart
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Stacie Pettyjohn on drones in Ukraine
Video
The Merge podcast hosts Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn to discuss her new report: Evolution Not Revolution, Drone Warfare in Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine Stacie is a Senior Fel...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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How China’s $100B+ Shipbuilding Empire Dominates the U.S.’s
Video
China has transformed into a shipbuilding powerhouse over the past two decades, cementing its status as a major maritime power. In 2023, more than half of the world’s commerci...
By Tom Shugart
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Ukrainian president has stark new warning as war rages on
Video
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warns that Ukraine will lose the war with Russia without US assistance. Franz-Stefan Gady of CNAS explains why US military aid is crucia...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Stock Buybacks in Defense: What Drives Them, and How That Can Change?
Commentary
Lack of capital is not a problem hindering investment at the largest defense primes. The issue revolves around the capital allocation decision....
By Mikhail Grinberg, Jerry McGinn & Lloyd Everhart
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Sharper: Maritime Security
Commentary
The importance of securing the maritime domain is rapidly increasing. From the South China Sea to the Red Sea, the U.S. and its allies are experiencing escalating challenges t...
By Anna Pederson & Charles Horn
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Innovation Adoption for All: Scaling across Department of Defense
Commentary
The Department of Defense does act quickly when properly motivated and catalyzed by effective leadership....
By Robert O. Work, Michael Brown & Ellen Lord
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Compiling Advantage: Unlocking the Competitive Power of Software Adaptability
Commentary
To fall short now would not be just a bureaucratic debacle. It would pose an imminent threat to the US military’s ability to deter, fight, and win....
By Ellen Lord
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On the Ice with Marines Preparing for War in the Arctic
Podcast
"It's not just the United States and NATO who are present in the Arctic, you have Russian presence and to a certain extent burgeoning Chinese presence as well. So if you're lo...
By Becca Wasser
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A World Full of Missiles
Commentary
If the United States wants to maintain its role as the international security guarantor in today’s missile age, it must reckon with this growing cost....
By Andrew Metrick
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Deterring the Powerful Enemy
Congressional Testimony
It is a privilege to testify here on matters that are important to the vital national security interests of the United States, as well as those of our other allies and partner...
By Tom Shugart
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National security leaders worry about U.S. failure to ratify Law of the Sea treaty
Video
Thomas Shugart, a former U.S. Navy submarine warfare officer and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said being outside the treaty undercuts American cr...
By Tom Shugart
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Preserving U.S. Military Advantage Amid Rapid Technological Change
Congressional Testimony
We live in a period of tremendous technological change. This disruption creates opportunities for the United States but also for our adversaries. To sustain its battlefield ad...
By Paul Scharre
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The history and evolution of drones and their use in modern warfare
Podcast
Stacie Pettyjohn joins BBC Newshour to discuss how drones continue to shape and change the modern battlefield. Listen to the full episode and more from BBC Newshour....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Drones Are Transforming the Battlefield in Ukraine but in an Evolutionary Fashion
Commentary
Thus far in Ukraine, drone warfare has been an evolution, not a revolution....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Networked deterrence in a multipolar Indo-Pacific
Commentary
For integrated deterrence to succeed in the Indo-Pacific, the United States needs to bolster both deterrence by denial and resilience by working with allies and partners....
By Becca Wasser
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How the US military is applying lessons learned from the war in Ukraine
Video
Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports on how autonomous weapons used in Ukraine have transformed the battlefield on 'Special Report.' Stacie ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
