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Three Key Takeaways from the Biden Administration’s National Security Strategy
While an unclassified version of the National Defense Strategy has not been released yet, Pentagon officials — including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a statement on the N...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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New CNAS Report: "Artificial Intelligence and Arms Control"
Washington, October 12, 2022—Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence and Arms Control," from authors Paul Scharre ...
By Paul Scharre & Megan Lamberth
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US Army Juggles Effects of Ukraine, Recruiting and Inflation on Budget
The big question in FY24 is “just how much [the Army] is going to be investing in missiles and ammunition that they have cut in the past years,” Stacie Pettyjohn, a defense an...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Preventing Nuclear ‘Armageddon’ Hinges on Us Policy of Ambiguity
President Joe Biden warned Thursday the US is trying to find an “off-ramp” for Putin, and worried Russia’s threats to use tactical nuclear weapons are real and could lead to “...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Putin Faces Limits of His Military Power as Ukraine Recaptures Land
How much territory the Russians lose before the reinforcements arrive isn’t entirely down to Moscow. Ukraine has been beating back the Russians on two major fronts for more th...
By Chris Dougherty
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Indian Ocean Rivalry: China’s Naval Maneuvers Irk New Delhi
Tom Shugart, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) think tank, said: "While we don't have any direct indications of intentions to specifica...
By Tom Shugart
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Retired Army Colonel from Omaha Embarks on Cross-Country Bike Ride to Honor Fallen Soldiers
The retired Army colonel is with his guys: the six paratroopers who gave their lives in Afghanistan in 2007 while serving under his command. Pfc. Chris Pfeifer. Sgt. Adrian Hi...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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U.S. and Philippines Increase Military Ties over China Threat
Lisa Curtis, an Indo-Pacific expert at the CNAS think-tank in Washington, said Manila was “wary of getting stuck in the middle of increasing US-China competition” but the new ...
By Lisa Curtis
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The New India: Expanding Influence Abroad, Straining Democracy at Home
The United States, which two years into the Biden administration still does not have an ambassador in New Delhi, is reeling from former President Donald J. Trump’s assault on ...
By Lisa Curtis
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The West Is Testing Out a Lot of Shiny New Military Tech in Ukraine
The breadth of information operations has led Brendan McCord, a hedge-fund manager who previously authored the Department of Defense’s first AI strategy, to describe this conf...
By Brendan McCord
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Joe Biden Warns of Global Disorder If Russia Is Not Stopped
Beyond the debating chamber, the global balance of power is changing. “Every day the war goes on, Russia’s military is degraded,” argues Richard Fontaine of the Centre for a N...
By Richard Fontaine
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No More Ambiguity: US Troops Will Defend Taiwan If China Invades, Biden Says
Stacie Pettyjohn, a defense strategy expert, has run several wargames for the Defense Department involving a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. While these games don’t track the numb...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Empowered Leaders Vital to Win Next War, Allied Air Chiefs Say
Speaking at the International Air Chiefs Conference hosted by the U.S. Air Force in Washington, top officials from the air forces of Canada and Sweden as well as U.S. defense ...
By Becca Wasser
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Ukraine Rout in Kharkiv Has Russians on the Run: How Did They Pull It Off, and What Comes Next?
Such scenes are not necessarily unusual for armies in retreat. The phrase “bug out,” meaning a panicked reaction, entered the English lexicon following a particularly chaotic ...
By Chris Dougherty
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The US Military Needs a Lot More Artillery Shells, Rockets, and Missiles for the Next War
However, if China attempted to invade Taiwan, the U.S. military’s main goal would be to destroy as many Chinese invasion ships far from shore, and that would require a lot of ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Inside a U.S. Navy Maritime Drone Operation Aimed at Iran
The U.S. Navy is working with Israel, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern nations to build a network of unmanned drones as it seeks to constrain Iran’s military in the regio...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Can Russia Defeat U.S. HIMARS in Ukraine With Iran's Drones?
Russia is adding Iranian drones to its war arsenal, though experts aren't sure they will have a significant impact against the U.S.-supplied High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Sys...
By Samuel Bendett
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New CNAS Report: "Beyond the L.A. Declaration on Migration and Development"
Washington, August 31, 2022—Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, Beyond the L.A. Declaration on Migration and Development: Developing Pe...
By Cristobal Ramón
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Satellite Images of Naval Base in Cambodia Expose China’s Lie
China insisted it wasn’t building a naval base in Cambodia … until its ambassador attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony. It insists it won’t arm its overseas facilities … right...
By Tom Shugart
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Fast, cheap, deadly: the budget drone changing global warfare
But their role in the Ukrainian campaign against Russia has been a coup for Baykar. Many of the foreign buyers the company is courting lack sophisticated air forces of their o...
By Erik Lin-Greenberg