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Navy grappling with the future of its unmanned fleet
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Tom Shugart, a defense analyst with the Center for a New American Security and a retired submarine warfare officer, said the Navy’s current approach to unmanned maritime syste...
By Tom Shugart
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The US may be using Ukraine as a blueprint for how Taiwan could stop a Chinese invasion
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President Joe Biden’s administration reportedly wants to arm Taiwan with the same types of portable weapons that the United States and other NATO members have been providing t...
By Tom Shugart
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Moskva sinking: What really happened to the pride of Russia's fleet?
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The Russian guided-missile cruiser Moskva rests deep beneath the Black Sea this morning. Whether it lies there as the victim of Ukrainian missiles, Russian incompetence, bad l...
By Tom Shugart
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The military wants ‘robot ships’ to replace sailors in battle
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Tom Shugart, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the Navy is building these ships with one enemy primarily in mind: China. The Chinese mi...
By Tom Shugart
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US unveils $800 million in weapons and equipment, plus training, for Ukraine
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U.S. President Joe Biden has announced an additional $800 million in heavy weapons the country will speed to Ukrainian forces, which will include more than a dozen heavy-artil...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Into the Military Metaverse: An empty buzzword or a virtual resource for the Pentagon?
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Years before the word “metaverse” existed, the Pentagon was experimenting with the broad concept of interconnected virtual worlds. In 1978, Air Force Capt. Jack Thorpe publish...
By Jennifer McArdle
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The Army’s transformation begins with these new units
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Major changes to the Army’s doctrine, equipment and operations have arrived in upgraded gear, future-focused technology and new ways to do battle. But where these elements con...
By Chris Dougherty
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‘Battlefield nukes’ in Ukraine? A low but complex threat.
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In her experience running war games for the U.S. military, Stacie Pettyjohn found that whenever scenarios involved nuclear weapons, participants tended to be flummoxed. “Norm...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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What next for Russia?
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When Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met in Istanbul to discuss a potential settlement on March 29th Alexander Fomin, Russia’s deputy defence minister, had something to offe...
By Billy Fabian
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The upcoming defense strategy dubs Russia an ‘acute threat.’ What does that mean?
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Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense programs at the Center for a New American Security, agreed that the change in terminology likely reflects the ongoing war in Ukraine,...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Biden administration kills Trump-era nuclear cruise missile program
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In a rare political win for non-proliferation advocates, the Biden administration has cancelled the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear program, one of the two new nuclear wea...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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White House to Seek $813.3 Billion National Security Budget
President Joe Biden plans to request $813.3 billion in national security spending -- including $773 billion for the Pentagon -- in the federal budget he will send to Congress ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Surge capacity exists for Javelin, but Army has yet to say how many it wants
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There is enough surge production capacity available in the Javelin missile supply chain to build thousands more per year, to refill U.S. stockpiles that have supplied Ukraine,...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Show, don’t tell: Navy changes strategy to sell unmanned systems to skeptical Congress
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Public discussions between the Navy and Congress over unmanned technology in recent years have been circular: The service asks for funding to develop new technology, hesitant ...
By Paul Scharre
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Russia’s Attack Shows Drones Are High on Hit Lists – And Often Under the Radar
Experts are calling for higher awareness of the operations of drones in low-altitude airspace as the autonomous weapons become increasingly active, especially during conflicts...
By Paul Scharre
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The U.S. Has Spent Billions on Equipment and Training in Europe to Deter Russia. Is It Enough?
The U.S. military has nearly 80,000 troops on average on rotational or permanent orders in Europe. Now, it’s sending thousands more to support those units. About 3,000 combat ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Inflation to be 2023 Budget Request Headline, Experts Say
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The Biden Administration’s inflation estimates will be the big story related to the fiscal 2023 defense budget submission, experts said in a Center for Strategic and Internati...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Pentagon Struggles to Attract New Entrants into Industrial Base
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The Defense Department has for years been plagued by a perennial problem: attracting new entrants into the defense industrial base. Injecting the DIB with the innovation that ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Press Release
Defense / Technology & National Security
CNAS strategy game examines how U.S., China respond to Taiwan semiconductor disruptionWashington, January 27— Essential to the day-to-day functioning of modern society, semiconductors are increasingly at the center of a high-stakes competition between the U.S. ...
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In The News
Defense / Technology & National Security
How the Computer Chip Shortage Could Incite a U.S. Conflict With ChinaThe war game scenario conducted by a Washington think tank began with a sudden failure at three Taiwanese semiconductor foundries that make high-end computer chips used in suc...
By Martijn Rasser & Becca Wasser
