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The Air Force's First Female Enlisted Leader Broke the 'Brass Ceiling.' Here’s Her View on Retirement.Katherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank who researches military culture, told Military.com that Bass, in many ways, was absol...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Plans to Expand U.S. Chip Manufacturing Are Running Into Obstacles
The delays come as the Biden administration begins dispensing the first major awards from a $39 billion pot of money aimed at building up the U.S. semiconductor industry and r...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S. Officials Are Always Talking About “Deterring” Iran. What Does That Really Mean?
Jonathan Lord, a former Defense Department official who now directs the Middle East program at the Center for a New American Security, said the attacks on these targets seem c...
By Jonathan Lord
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The Vision Behind the U.S. Consulate in Erbil Is Dissolving
Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East security program at the Center for New American Security, told New Lines, “In Washington, there’s an interest in moving beyond frami...
By Jonathan Lord
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Technology & National Security
Alibaba and Baidu Cash Out on Quantum Computing Stakes“There are so few private sector players involved in China’s quantum ecosystem, and those were two of the biggest.” —Sam Howell, Center for a New American Security. ... Trying...
By Sam Howell
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China’s Shipyards Are Ready for a Protracted War. America’s Aren’t.
“The scale [of China’s shipbuilding] is just almost hard to fathom,” said Thomas Shugart, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security whose research foc...
By Tom Shugart
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Russia Vs The West: Is Putin Winning?
"It is a race by both sides to rebuild their offensive capacity," said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, senior fellow at Washington-based Center for New American Security (CNAS). "If th...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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VCs Face Fresh Scrutiny Over China Investments as Geopolitical Pressures Build
Now, slowing China’s long-running, multi-billion-dollar effort to catch up with the US in chip technology has become a lynchpin of America’s China policy. AI, where the US als...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S. Strike in Baghdad Kills Key Militia Commander, Officials Say
The Biden administration has opted for a strategy that falls short of holding Tehran itself accountable for supporting militant groups in the region, said Jonathan Lord, direc...
By Jonathan Lord
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Technology & National Security
Russians Fume over 19th-Century Machine Guns, WW1 Rifles in UkraineThe nearly two years of war across Ukraine have come at a high human cost, but have also claimed huge amounts of weaponry, including small arms. Both sides have made use of ol...
By Samuel Bendett
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Defense / Technology & National Security
How Cheap Drones Are Transforming Warfare in UkraineThe appeal of FPV drones is that they offer cheap, accurate firepower. Unguided artillery shells cost anywhere between $800 and $9,000. A GPS-guided shell is closer to $100,00...
By Franz-Stefan Gady & Samuel Bendett
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National Security Human Capital Program
DoD Updates Telework Policy for the First Time Since 2012“I do think that the document foresees some of these cultural challenges. We want to set up the value proposition for why this might work really well for your office. But it’s...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Technology & National Security
What Is VALK-1? 'Powerful' Ukrainian Drone Fighting Russia in DonetskThe drones are described as "all-weather," something which is a "key development," according to Samuel Bendett of the U.S. think tank the Center for Naval Analyses. They can "...
By Samuel Bendett
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What U.S.–China Cooperation on AI Could Look Like
At a hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Capitol Hill on Thursday, expert witnesses testified that the Chinese military places a high priority...
By Jacob Stokes
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Biden’s Retaliatory Strikes in Middle East Come with Significant Political Risk: Experts
Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East Security program at the Center for a New American Security and a former Defense Department official, told ABC News Biden is on a "ti...
By Jonathan Lord
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U.S. Sees Signs Iran Is Worried About Escalating Proxy Attacks amid Heightened Tensions
Jonathan Lord, the director of the Middle East Security program at the Center for a New American Security, said, however, that the Kataib Hezbollah statement reflects how the ...
By Jonathan Lord
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Technology & National Security
U.S. Deems More Chinese Tech Companies ‘Military’ and a National Security RiskAccording to Bill Drexel of the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank, the updated list “stands as a reminder that the Sino-American economic relat...
By Bill Drexel
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The Logistics of War: How Washington Is Preparing for a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
In a war game run for Congress in April, China prepared for an amphibious assault on Taiwan with massive air and missile strikes against U.S. bases in the region. That include...
By Becca Wasser
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Ukraine Deploying Machine-Gun Mounted Robots to Attack Putin's TroopsBoth Russia and Ukraine are developing UGVs intended to "replace human soldiers in the most dangerous and casualty-intensive storming raids," said Samuel Bendett, of the Cente...
By Samuel Bendett
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Complex Politics, Shortages Hinder Kurdish Air Defenses in Iraq
Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East Security program at the Center for New American Security, told Amwaj.media that the waiver provision is a decisive aspect of the leg...
By Jonathan Lord