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Russia’s Make-or-Break Gambit in the DonbasHaving failed to achieve their initial goal of a lightning campaign to seize the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Russian forces are focusing their efforts on the Donbas region in t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian Scientists Say They Have A New System to Monitor Attacks on the Russian InternetAs Russia rains artillery fire down on Ukrainian cities, cyber attackers from around the world have been targeting Russian media, cryptocurrency services, and retail brands wi...
By Samuel Bendett
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In Ukraine, civilians shape narrative of the warThe images stream by like a dystopian slide show: Ukrainian farmers pulling abandoned Russian tanks from black soil. Bodies and buildings shredded in airstrikes. A young woman...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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The smartphone war: Soldiers, civilians and satellites give the world a window onto Russian invasionA month and a half into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we’ve become so used to the steady stream of videos and images coming from the front lines that it's easy to forget it's ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Chechen Wars Offer a Glimpse of Putin’s Next MoveWhen I see images of Mariupol’s devastation, watch footage of burnt-out Russian tanks or hear the increasingly frequent Ukrainian accounts of kidnappings and disappearances, a...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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How drones are helping fuel propaganda in Ukraine“[The] Russians are carefully releasing videos of Forpost-R and Orion combat drones as well to try and compete with a Bayraktar narrative,” said Samuel Bendett, an analyst at ...
By Samuel Bendett
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What the city of Mariupol means for Ukraine — and for Russia's military campaignThe southeast Ukraine city of Mariupol has been battered by Russian airstrikes in recent weeks. Among the buildings hit have been a maternity hospital, a theater and an arts s...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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How access to satellite images shifts the view of warRita Konaev, associate director of analysis at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, says satellite imagery "has been an aspect of modern confli...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Ukraine has destroyed nearly 10% of Russia's tanks, making experts ask: Are tanks over?This vanguard role, held then by foot soldiers and now by tanks, will likely shift to drones, robotic vehicles, and long-range strike systems. "Tanks are going to move, over ...
By Paul Scharre
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Putin could launch AI attack on UK if he feels threatened in Ukraine war, expert warnsSamuel Bendett, an expert on Russia's AI and military, told Express.co.uk: "Russia’s most successful use of AI appears to be in information and cyber warfare, and that may imp...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Eyeing China, US Business Community Waits for Washington to Make Next MoveIn the current climate, businesses would be wise to rethink their China strategy, said Martijn Rasser, a former senior intelligence officer at the U.S. Central Intelligence Ag...
By Martijn Rasser
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Over Ukraine, Lumbering Turkish-Made Drones Are an Ominous Sign for Russia“It is so perplexing, and no one is quite sure what went wrong,” said Samuel Bendett, an expert on the Russian military at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington...
By Samuel Bendett & Michael Kofman
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The U.S. can’t stop Poland from giving Ukraine its MiGsThe fact that small Russian units have been so regularly ambushed in the early days of the war indicates they weren’t using small drones for surveillance and reconnaissance, i...
By Samuel Bendett
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Cyber Command chief tells Congress chip shortage has national security implicationsChina’s increasing progress toward producing enough semiconductor chips domestically to avoid relying on foreign trade is a “very timely question” and one of “great concern fo...
By Martijn Rasser
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The Tangled Web We Wove Rebalancing America's Supply ChainsWashington, March 10, 2022—The pendulum of globalization has swung too far. What the fallout of the ongoing pandemic makes clear is that decades of offshoring and cost-cutting...
By Megan Lamberth, Ryan Johnson, Martijn Rasser & Henry Wu
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Technology & National Security
Online Sleuths Are Using Face Recognition to ID Russian SoldiersChechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted a short video on Telegram, in which a cheery bearded soldier stood before a line of tanks clanking down a road under an overcast sky. I...
By Ryan Fedasiuk
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Russia’s AI industry faces collapseRussian President Vladimir Putin’s 2017 proclamation that whichever country leads in artificial intelligence “will be the ruler of the world” may come back to haunt him. New t...
By Martijn Rasser
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Russia is deploying brutal siege tactics in UkraineThe Russian assault on Ukraine is ongoing, with Russian forces moving on major population centers including Mariupol in the southeast and the capital, Kyiv. As the war moves i...
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2021 Pitch Contest Winners Building the next generation of national security thinkers and leaders: Building the next generation of national security thinkers and leadersWashington, March 3, 2022—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is proud to publish policy insights from the winners of the 2021 Pitch competition. The Pitch began in ...
By Megan Lamberth
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Russia’s Way of Conducting Urban Warfare Bodes Ill for KyivThe last time that Russian forces fought their way into Kyiv was the autumn of 1943, when the Red Army crossed the Dnieper river and seized the city from Nazi Germany. On Nove...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
