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Becca Wasser Joins CNAS as Fellow in Defense Program
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Becca Wasser has joined CNAS as a Fellow in the Defense program. Ms. Wasser’s research areas include ...
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Canceling Aegis Ashore raises problems — and hopes
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Defense Minister Taro Kono has announced suspending the planned deployment of the Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense system. Kono blamed cost and technical issues for the ...
By Eric Sayers
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How Much Does It Cost To Insure A Russian-Made Stealth Drone?
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The Russian defense ministry has insured its new stealth drone and its control station for 1.4 billion rubles. That’s $20 million. And it’s probably worth every ruble. The S-...
By Samuel Bendett
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The president is a danger to the US military
When President Donald Trump looks at the military he leads, he doesn’t see a diverse group of Americans doing their jobs to protect and defend the country. He sees a massive f...
By Paul Scharre
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Pandemic gives Navy ‘opportunity’ to revise its long-term plans
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Even before the pandemic hit the service hard, the U.S. Navy was in rough seas. The lingering aftermath of two deadly collisions in 2017, constant leadership turnover, and pre...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Military faces another potential coronavirus toll: Budget cuts
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As the novel coronavirus has swept the globe, Pentagon officials have scrambled to adjust everything from basic training to submarine deployments to prevent the pandemic from ...
By Robert F. Hale
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US military poised for post-pandemic shift
The novel coronavirus pandemic may soon lead to big changes in the U.S. military. COVID-19 has torn apart U.S. society so much that it is redefining national security, defens...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Foreign powers test US defenses amid coronavirus pandemic
U.S. adversaries are probing America's defenses as the world is preoccupied with the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. In the past two weeks, Russia, China, Iran and No...
By Susanna V. Blume
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CNAS Launches New Initiative: America and the Post-Pandemic World
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of a major initiative on America and the Post-Pandemic World. Leveraging CNAS’ unique multidisciplinar...
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Immigrant doctors want to help the Army fight the coronavirus. The Pentagon won’t let them.
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Dozens of immigrant physicians who enlisted through a Pentagon program meant to harness their medical skills are stuck taking out trash and filing paperwork, an immigration at...
By Paul Scharre
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Indo-Pacom Presses All Domain Ops; Sends Plan To Hill Soon
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At a time where the Navy has been pretty quiet about All-Domain Operations — an emerging war fighting concept being pushed by the Pentagon’s top leaders — the head of Indo-Pac...
By Eric Sayers & Daniel Kliman
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Pentagon reluctantly moves to help combat coronavirus
The US military has begun to slowly step in to aid the federal government’s coronavirus response despite reluctance among Pentagon leaders, who are concerned the domestic depl...
By Richard Fontaine
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Getting the services on the same wavelength about electronic warfare
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The Pentagon is expected to spend $47 billion over the next five years to modernize its electronic warfare systems. Without this funding, experts say that the U.S. military, a...
By Will Mackenzie
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Huawei 5G tie-up will not disrupt intelligence-sharing, U.S. officials say
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Britain's decision to allow Huawei into its 5G network will not disrupt overall intelligence-sharing with the United States, U.S. officials said Friday, in comments that may a...
By Eric Sayers
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As China expands navy, US begins stockpiling ship-killing missiles
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The stunning growth of the Chinese fleet over the past decade has prompted the U.S. Navy to plan a full-on buying spree of ship-killing missiles over the next five years, acco...
By Eric Sayers
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The Pentagon is racing against inflation for military might
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In 2017, the top two officials at the Pentagon — then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joe Dunford — testified to Congress that...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Chinese threats means the Pentagon needs new C4ISR systems
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For the United States to meet the goals laid out in the National Defense Strategy, especially in Asia, and to realize President Donald Trump’s vision of an open Indo-Pacific, ...
By Chris Dougherty
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100 things the United States must do to compete with China
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There is a growing bipartisan consensus in Washington that the United States is losing its advantage in the strategic competition with China. But, so far, there has been littl...
By Ely Ratner & Eric Sayers
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US must revamp post-WWII order in Indo-Pacific to curb China ambitions, report says
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The U.S. and its allies must establish new rules, norms and institutions in the Indo-Pacific region as a means of blunting China’s growing military and economic might there, r...
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Goldfein Says 2021 Budget Buys Connectivity by Accepting Capacity Risk
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The Air Force budget about to go to Congress will create some “real-time, near-term risk” in the service’s ability to conduct a war with a peer adversary, but that risk pays f...
