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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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Defense / Transatlantic Security
The West Is Testing Out a Lot of Shiny New Military Tech in UkraineThe 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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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Joe Biden Warns of Global Disorder If Russia Is Not StoppedBeyond 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
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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
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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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Defense / Transatlantic Security
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
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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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Defense / Transatlantic Security
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"
Press Release
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
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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
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Why Crimea matters: Ukrainian attacks are frightening Russian tourists and forcing Russia’s army to change tactics
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The Ukrainians’ ability to strike inside Crimea, however they’re doing it, is likely forcing the Russians to draw troops away from front lines elsewhere in the conflict. "When...
By Samuel Bendett
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Fighting between U.S. troops and militias draws scrutiny to Syria role
Officially, the United States is in northeastern Syria to counter the Islamic State, a holdover of the multiyear campaign to destroy the terrorist group. The current mission i...
By Jonathan Lord
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Defense / Technology & National Security
US is sending Ukraine VAMPIRE rocket launchers that can turn a regular pickup truck into a drone killerUkrainian forces will soon be able to turn regular pickup trucks and other vehicles into mobile rocket launchers able to take out Russian drones thanks to a new item in the la...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Delayed kamikaze drone for Ukraine on track for next month: PentagonWhile Russia’s five-month-old invasion of Ukraine has mostly been an artillery war, thousands of drones are being used by both sides, and both the United States and Russia hav...
By Samuel Bendett
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How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine? What we know, how we know it and what it really means.
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The numbers on both sides can often blind observers to the reality that each death is of course a tragedy for the (usually) young life snuffed out and for those who mourn back...
By Chris Dougherty
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In think tank’s Taiwan war game, US beats China at high cost
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The Marines’ key weapon, the Naval Strike Missile, simply can’t shoot far enough with its 100 nautical mile range, making it ineffective for strikes from the Philippines to Ta...
By Chris Dougherty
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‘A bloody mess’ with ‘terrible loss of life’: How a China-US conflict over Taiwan could play out
While that decision “makes a ton of sense” from a gameplay perspective, as wargames need to be narrowly-defined in order to be manageable, the end result is that both sides no...
By Becca Wasser
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A look at missile systems and military tactics deployed in Ukraine and what could tun the tide
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Stacie Pettyjohn, the director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington, D.C.-based military think tank, does not believe the world’s lat...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
