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Ukraine Is Turning the Tables
Franz-Stefan Gady, a Vienna-based military analyst who frequently travels to the front, says that by deploying swarms of FPVs to establish the 20km-deep kill zone, Kyiv has re...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Iran War Saps U.S. Military Ahead of Any Potential China Conflict
“Between this and the operations in South America, you’ve got a certain ratio of operational time to maintenance time that has to be maintained,” said Tom Shugart, a former U....
By Tom Shugart
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Trump Returns from China with Little Progress on Reopening Hormuz
“Negotiations are deadlocked, violence erupts sporadically and the economic costs of the prolonged closing of the Strait of Hormuz are rising,” Bloomberg Economics defense lea...
By Becca Wasser
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Russia’s War Is Going Badly—on the Ground and in the Air
“Ukraine is certainly in a stronger position than many expected,” said Franz-Stefan Gady, a Vienna-based military analyst and head of Gady Consulting. But war involves cycles ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Fuel, Munitions and Food: The Mounting Toll of Trump’s Iran War
The budget and future supplemental requests represent “a lot of money” and it is “going to have economic knockdown effects”, said Carlton Haelig, a defence fellow at the Cente...
By Carlton Haelig
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What Beijing Has Learned About the U.S. from the Iran War
The Chinese missile stockpile is likely much larger than the one Iran has on hand, so “they can treat some of their missiles in the way that Iran has treated their drones,” sa...
By Becca Wasser
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Rubio Approves $25.8 Billion in Weapons Push for Mideast Nations
Given the long wait time associated with most foreign military sales, “if you inject a priority new request, that’s going to displace or delay delivery to someone else,” said ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Air Force, Space Force Make ‘Explicit Shift’ in RDT&E Funding, Experts Say
By Carlton Haelig
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From Ukraine to Taiwan: Drone Warfare Lessons Meet Indo-Pacific Reality
"It's not really about 'swarms' yet -- it's about mass. Large volumes of drones used in salvos to overwhelm defenses and increase the probability of a successful strike," said...
By Molly Campbell
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The U.S. Has Been Burning Through Weapons in Iran It Could Need in a War with China. Here Are the Latest Estimates.
Franz-Stefan Gady, a defense expert at the Center for a New American Security, also warned on Wednesday that it would take four to five years to replenish US precision munitio...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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How Iran’s Cheap, Low-Tech Drones Have Cost the U.S.
Air defense training teaches service members to prioritize using longer-range defense systems first to “get as many bites at the apple as you can,” but those are the most expe...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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How China and Russia Are Becoming Iran’s Eyes in the Sky
Carlton Haelig, a fellow with the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), said Beijing only has thin deniability over the TEE-01B satellite. “It is v...
By Carlton Haelig
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The Pentagon Wants a 188 Percent Bump for Missile Procurement. Can Industry Deliver?
“I think the Pentagon is viewing this as a generational budget, as something to try and overcome some of the longstanding challenges that existed and to essentially reposition...
By Becca Wasser
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Trump’s $1.5T Defense Budget to Weather Harsh Scrutiny on Capitol Hill
“On the one hand, it has a lot of the things that Congress has been asking the department to focus on: heavy investments in munitions production — both interceptors and offens...
By Carlton Haelig
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Trump Administration Expected to Slash Iran War Funding Request
Stacie Pettyjohn, who directs the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank, said that even the reduced supplemental request would be a test of t...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Calls for Tougher U.S. Bunkers, Hangars Go Back Years, Analysts Say
“People are asking the valid question: What on earth was this half-billion dollar airplane doing sitting right out in the open, where commercial satellite imagery can see exac...
By Tom Shugart
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How China Uses Commercial Ships to Pressure Taiwan Without Firing a Shot
Thomas Shugart, a former U.S. Navy officer and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the pattern was unprecedented. "If you can put hundreds or even th...
By Tom Shugart
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What Options Does the Air Force Have for E-3 Taken Out by Iran?
“Based on the latest data that we have, this was a 16-aircraft fleet, about half of which was mission capable, which puts me at a number of eight to nine,” Philip Sheers, an a...
By Philip Sheers
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From Lockheed to European Start-Ups, Arms Makers Jostle for Iran War Orders
Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defence programme at the Center for New American Security think-tank, said despite the Trump administration’s promise to focus on eliminating...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Here’s What Marine Expeditionary Units Are Designed to Do
But with the Marine Corps in the midst of a massive reorganization — one that sees it shift its focus from irregular warfare to conventional conflict in the Indo-Pacific regio...
By Stacie Pettyjohn