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Key Developments in South China Sea in 2025: Rising Tensions, Military Activities, and Territorial Disputes
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The South China Sea remains one of the world's most volatile geopolitical hotspots, with escalating tensions and territorial disputes involving China and its neighbouring coun...
By Tom Shugart
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
South China Sea: 5 Things to Watch in 2025The South China Sea has become one of the world’s most perilous geopolitical hot spots in recent years, with China stepping up the reinforcement of its expansive claims and co...
By Tom Shugart
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Experts Urge U.S. to Use Taiwan Logistics Pact to Counter China’s Military Coercion
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A recently released U.S. government report details China's ongoing efforts to "erode long-standing norms in and around Taiwan" through various pressure tactics, including incr...
By Trey Meeks
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The Mysterious New Jersey Drone Drama Has Kickstarted a Long-Overdue Discussion
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A recent wave of mysterious drone sightings across the US has, to a certain extent, kick-started a long-overdue discussion on drone technology and airspace management....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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High-Tech Radar Used in Ukraine-Russia War to Be Deployed to Crack Northeast Drone Mystery
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State-of-the-art drone-hunting technology being used on the battlefield in Ukraine could soon be deployed to crack the mystery behind a spate of unmanned flying objects purpor...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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‘I Don’t Buy It’: Americans Want Answers on Possible Drone Sightings
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A police officer looking off the coast of New Jersey late in the evening of 8 December witnessed a scene so striking that she called emergency services....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Mysterious Drones Raise Oversight Questions. What Can Be Done?
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Last month, drones flying over two military installations on the East Coast prompted “thousands” of phone calls to report them, raising the latest in a series of questions tha...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Top Marine Says Combat Experience Gives U.S. the Edge Over China’s MilitaryWar is an inherently uncontrolled environment. Managing that chaos requires experienced leaders, from the small-unit level to the most senior ranks. Combat experience can reve...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Lockheed Martin to Enhance U.S. Navy MK 48 Torpedo in $245M Deal
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Lockheed Martin has clinched a $245-million contract extension from the US Naval Sea Systems Command for the MK 48 Guidance and Control (G&C) program. The G&C componen...
By Tom Shugart
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Trump Turns to Outsider to Shake Up Navy, but His Lack of Military Experience Raises Concerns
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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, has not served in the military or had a civilian leadership role in the service. While officia...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Elon Musk Says Human-Piloted Fighter Jets like the F-35 Are Obsolete. Drone Tech Can’t Yet Fill the Gap.
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Drones are changing war in ways we never thought possible, but are we to the point where uncrewed systems can replace top-dollar weapons like the F-35 stealth fighter? Promine...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In an F-35 Funding Fight, Musk Will Need to Win Over a Skeptical Congress and Trump
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Just weeks after President-elect Donald Trump tasked Elon Musk with cutting government spending, the SpaceX CEO criticized the Pentagon's most expensive weapons program: the F...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In The News
Defense / Technology & National Security
Generating an EdgeEmerging capabilities such as AI and machine learning are transforming strategic cooperation, competition and conflict throughout the Indo-Pacific and beyond, military command...
By Paul Scharre
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In The News
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Pentagon to Disclose More Drones in Secretive China ProgramThe Pentagon, seeking to balance deterrence of China’s Pacific ambitions, industrial base concerns, and secrecy, plans to reveal as soon as this week more details about its “R...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Loyalty Is Common Thread as Trump Fills Foreign Policy, Immigration JobsPresident-elect Donald Trump is stocking his cabinet and White House staff with loyalists with deep congressional experience who back his agenda on immigration and foreign pol...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Expected Military Reset: Culture War Counteroffensive
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President-elect Trump is expected to transform the U.S. military from the Pentagon, with promises to slash spending, thin the top ranks and roll back efforts to make the milit...
By Carlton Haelig
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Satellite Photo Shows New Activity at China's Underground Submarine BaseSatellite imagery appears to have captured the activation of a possible damage control system at an underground submarine base for Chinese nuclear-powered submarines operating...
By Tom Shugart
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Defense / Middle East Security
As Middle East Crisis Grinds On, Pentagon Shows Signs of StrainThe open-ended crisis in the Middle East has begun to squeeze the Pentagon, fueling unease over the U.S. military’s ability to balance imminent threats to American interests t...
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Satellite Imagery Shows Mystery Ship Built in China amid Breakneck Naval ExpansionChina appears to have built a new and unusual aircraft carrier, intriguing experts with a potentially first-of-its-kind vessel that could further increase Beijing’s rapidly ex...
By Tom Shugart
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China Built a $50 Billion Military Stronghold in the South China SeaHainan, a palm-fringed island known as China’s Hawaii, sits in the warm tropical waters of the South China Sea east of Vietnam. It’s a popular tourist destination with soft-sa...
By Tom Shugart
