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China’s Military Parade Shows Who’s Calling the Shots
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By Becca Wasser
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China Shows Off Nuclear Ambitions With Expanding Missile Arsenal
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China revealed the scope of its nuclear weapon ambitions to the world this week when it rolled two new gigantic intercontinental ballistic missile designs through the streets ...
By Becca Wasser
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Xi’s Historic Meet with Putin and Kim Showcases Unity Against U.S.
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President Xi Jinping hosted the leaders of North Korea and Russia in Beijing for the first time this week, marking a historic show of united defiance against the US-led world ...
By Becca Wasser
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Lutnick Sparks Rally in Defense Stocks After Ownership Comment
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sparked a minor rally in shares of defense contractors with his suggestion that the US might take ownership stakes in some of them, even as i...
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The World’s Biggest Chipmaker Needs to Move Beyond TaiwanTaipei, a city of over 2m people, stopped moving at 1.30pm on July 17th. Sirens rang out across the capital as residents rehearsed a civil-defence drill for a Chinese invasion...
By Becca Wasser
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Pentagon Thrown into Confusion over Think Tank Ban
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A wide swath of Defense Department officials fear that new rules banning employees from participating at think tank and research events — a key way the Pentagon delivers its m...
By Becca Wasser
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Silicon Valley’s $4 Billion Gamble on Defense Manufacturing
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Every month Neros Inc. makes hundreds of drones designed to drop warheads on adversaries. By the end of the year, the company wants its new Southern California factory to cran...
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Fallout from the Ukraine Munitions FreezeUkraine has been struggling to repel a relentless barrage of Russian airstrikes on its cities, and analysts in Washington and Europe are racing to assess the consequences of a...
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Middle East Security
U.S. Troops in Middle East Will Remain Dispersed and at Elevated Alert, Analysts SayU.S. troops in the Middle East are likely to stay in a dispersed and defensive position amid the fragile ceasefire agreement between Iran and Israel, experts and former senior...
By Becca Wasser
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Trump Heads to Saudi Arabia Soon, Looking for a Repeat of His Trip in 2017
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When President Trump heads to Saudi Arabia next week, so will some of the nation's top business leaders. Trump is looking for a repeat of his first foreign trip as president i...
By Becca Wasser
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Trump May Be Triggering the Fastest Nuclear Weapons Race Since the Cold War
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Donald Trump has been obsessed with preventing a nuclear holocaust since he was a bumptious boy builder back in the 1980s. Back then Trump reportedly proposed, with typical gr...
By Becca Wasser
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‘It Was Leaked to Us:’ Army in Chaos over Trump Orders
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The Army rushed to satisfy President Donald Trump’s executive orders this week, sparking so much confusion that top officials directed a halt on new contracts and then walked ...
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Middle East Security
As Middle East Crisis Grinds On, Pentagon Shows Signs of StrainThe open-ended crisis in the Middle East has begun to squeeze the Pentagon, fueling unease over the U.S. military’s ability to balance imminent threats to American interests t...
By Becca Wasser
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A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Does the Pentagon.
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Warfare is changing at a pace unseen in almost a century, as fighting in Ukraine and the Middle East shows. For military commanders, tackling that upheaval demands fast and co...
By Becca Wasser
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America’s Greatest Adversary? Kamala Harris Says Iran Is ‘An Obvious’ Answer
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WASHINGTON — Though the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community have long identified China as America’s number one geopolitical challenge, when Democratic presidenti...
By Becca Wasser
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Why China’s and Russia’s Militaries Are Training Together
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China and Russia have pressed an informal political and economic alliance against the West. Now they are stepping up the cooperation between their militaries with increasingly...
By Becca Wasser
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America’s Middle East Defense Rests on Aircraft Carriers
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With the United States and Israel expecting a military response any minute now from Iran or its proxies for the recent deaths of Hamas’s political leader and Hezbollah’s secon...
By Becca Wasser
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F-16 Fighter Jets Arrive in Ukraine but May Not Tip Advantage Against Russia
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Some analysts are even more skeptical than Zelensky. Becca Wasser, an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, said the F-16s might be most potent as a psychological...
By Becca Wasser
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America’s New Island Fighters Are Preparing for Conflict—a Stone’s Throw From Taiwan
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If China moved to invade Taiwan, American forces would want to shift some U.S. warplanes to these sites. The idea would be to disperse U.S. aircraft across an array of bases a...
By Becca Wasser
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Ukraine Looks to Stop the Bleeding as U.S. Readies More Aid
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Becca Wasser, a senior fellow for the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, said the incoming aid package is significant but will not “magically solve all...
By Becca Wasser
