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New CNAS Paper Explores How the Military is Tapping into the Popular World of Electronic Sports
Washington, August 3, 2021 — Engaging 495 million viewers in 2020 alone, electronic sports—video games played like competitive sport online—are an increasingly valuable tool f...
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Heavy-lifting Russian drones could resupply soldiers on future battlefields
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Rostec, the massive Russian defense corporation, announced at the annual MAKS-2021 arms show in late July that it wants to make a better fleet of cargo drones, including one c...
By Samuel Bendett
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Probing the Fragility of JADC2
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Earlier this year, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signed off on the U.S. Defense Department’s first-ever strategy for Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2, giving hi...
By Chris Dougherty
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The OG wolf warrior lands in DC
The Department of Homeland Security is in need of “substantial updates” to maximize its strengths and improve its ability to adapt to threats, according to a new report publis...
By Carrie Cordero & Katie Galgano
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A New Tunnel Is Spotted At A Chinese Nuclear Test Site
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China appears to be expanding its sprawling nuclear weapons testing complex in the nation's western desert. Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR shows a possible new ...
By Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, Jr. (Ret.)
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Why does the Federal Reserve need a digital currency?
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Digital money is nothing new—debit and credit cards have been with us for years. What’s changed is its pervasiveness. With fewer people carrying paper money, and with some pla...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Fed up with the U.S., Ukraine cuts deals with China and shuts up about the Uyghurs
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Frustrated with the U.S., Ukraine is cutting deals with a rival superpower, inviting China to build infrastructure while holding back criticism of Beijing's human rights recor...
By Jim Townsend
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Make Room Director's Note
Press Release
Make Room is pleased to announce that Katie Galgano has been named Director of the Make Room initiative. Katie is the Executive Research Assistant at CNAS and has served on th...
By Katie Galgano
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Why Joe Biden is ending America’s combat mission in Iraq
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When the first American bombs began falling on Iraq on March 19th 2003, President George W. Bush predicted a hard slog. “A campaign on the harsh terrain of a nation as large a...
By Becca Wasser
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Iraq's energy deals in limbo as US pledges help for clean projects
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Iraq's $8 billion worth of energy deals with US companies clinched in August 2020 during the prime minister's inaugural visit to Washington have yet to bear fruit, but Mustafa...
By Rachel Ziemba
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As US troops leave Afghanistan, what will future policy look like?
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As the US nears completion of its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon is supposed to switch to “over-the-horizon” counter-terrorist operations in the country. B...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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TikTok a Year After Trump’s Ban: No Change, but New Threats
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Saturday will mark a year since Donald Trump said he would ban the wildly popular and annoyingly addictive short-video app TikTok from millions of US smartphones, citing threa...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Chinese Navy Using Commercial Car Ferries to Launch Amphibious Landing Craft
When a Chinese ferry joined the People’s Liberation Army Navy for an amphibious landing exercise in July 2020, observers noticed something different.It’s not unusual for Chine...
By Tom Shugart
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Biden, pulling combat forces from Iraq, seeks to end the post-9/11 era
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President Biden has announced the full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. He has started transferring prisoners from Guantánamo Bay in hopes of eventually shutting do...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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Pregnant Cadets, Midshipmen Must Give Up Their Child Or Their Career. Two Senators Want To Change That.
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Two senators are teaming up to change an “unfair, antiquated” policy that requires students at military academies who get pregnant to choose between abandoning their military ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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CSBA Report "DoD's Full Spectrum Competition has limitation due to budget constraints"
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The Center for New American Security (CNAS), a private research institute in Washington, analyzed on the 20th that the U.S. Department of Defense's approach with China and Rus...
By Becca Wasser
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Algorithmic Warfare: Russia Expanding Fleet of AI-Enabled Weapons
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Russia — which has made no secret of its artificial intelligence ambitions — is building a cadre of AI-enabled, autonomous weapon systems that could one day threaten the Unite...
By Jeffrey Edmonds & Samuel Bendett
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Risky Business: Future Strategy and Force Options for the Defense Department
Washington, July 20, 2021— Despite the overarching strategic priorities laid out by the Biden administration and initial indicators provided by the Department of Defense, it i...
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Former Jerusalem mayor lobbies against US opening consulate to Palestinians
An Israeli politician and former mayor of Jerusalem is urging the Biden administration to abandon its plans to reopen the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem for the Palestinians, cal...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Biden’s First Budget Tries ‘Too Much With Too Little,’ New Wargame Finds
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The Biden administration has a limited window to set America’s military on a new course – and the lack of a clear direction with its first budget means the Pentagon is already...
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Becca Wasser & Jennie Matuschak
