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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 WorldThe 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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Immigrant doctors want to help the Army fight the coronavirus. The Pentagon won’t let them.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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In The News
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Indo-Pacom Presses All Domain Ops; Sends Plan To Hill SoonAt 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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Pentagon reluctantly moves to help combat coronavirusThe 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
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
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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100 things the United States must do to compete with China
In The News
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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Chinese threats means the Pentagon needs new C4ISR systems
In The News
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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In The News
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
US must revamp post-WWII order in Indo-Pacific to curb China ambitions, report saysThe 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
In The News
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...
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Vital Signs 2020: Industrial Base Could Struggle to Surge Production in Wartime
The U.S. industrial base would be challenged to ramp up production to meet wartime requirements in the event of a protracted great power conflict, analysts and Pentagon offici...
By Susanna V. Blume
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CNAS Launches “America Competes 2020”The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today launched “America Competes 2020,” a Center-wide initiative to renew American competitiveness at home and abroad. Amid incre...
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What is SA-15, the air defense system that may have shot down a Ukrainian plane?
The mixed messaging began almost immediately after a Ukrainian passenger jet crashed near Tehran early Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board. Iranian state media said th...
By Will Mackenzie
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Press Note
Defense / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
CNAS Responds: Tensions Rise Between the United States and IranThe first week of 2020 has seen a sharp escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions, with the U.S. killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Iranian missile strikes on U.S. military t...
By Richard Fontaine, Ilan Goldenberg, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Kayla M. Williams, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya & Kaleigh Thomas
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Congress weighs closing up No. 3 office at the Pentagon
In The News
Just three years after Congress created a new civilian position focused on Defense Department reforms and named it the No. 3 official in the Pentagon, key lawmakers are leanin...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / National Security Law Program
CNAS Delivers Congressionally Mandated Study on U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific to the Department of DefenseThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today delivered an independent assessment—Rising to the China Challenge: Renewing American Competitiveness in the Indo-Pacific—to...
By Cole Stevens
