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Defense / Middle East Security
Why Iran’s Warship ‘Didn’t Have a Chance’ Against a Los Angeles-Class SubmarineThe U.S. military’s operations against Iran reached a new level of intensity on Tuesday when an American submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, marking th...
By Tom Shugart
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Defense / Middle East Security
Middle East War Could Be Decided by Who Runs Out of Missiles or Interceptors First, Analysts SayThe outcome and duration of the war in the Middle East may be decided by a grim calculus based on the size of Iran’s drone and missile stocks v vital air defence munitions hel...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
How Tanking, Airlift Could Be Strained by Iran OpsAs US armed forces grind through combat in Iran, some officials have raised concerns about America’s munitions stockpile. But experts warn that a perhaps less obvious constrai...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
Pentagon IDs 4 American Troops Killed in KuwaitThe Pentagon on Tuesday identified four of the six American troops killed in the opening hours of the war with Iran....
By Molly Campbell
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing FounderWithin minutes of arriving at a security conference with U.S. defense and intelligence officials in December, Palmer Luckey was stopped by a military officer who wanted to tal...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Iranian Drones Challenge Gulf’s Air Defenses
Iran unleashed hundreds of drone strikes this weekend on Gulf Arab states, damaging U.S. bases and critical infrastructure and presenting a serious challenge to the Middle Eas...
By Samuel Bendett
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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump Faces Race to Defeat Iran Before U.S. and West Run Out of Missiles and InterceptorsDonald Trump was warned that America's stockpile of missiles and interceptors could run dry if his war in Iran is prolonged, sources say....
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Middle East Security
U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run OutWhen the U.S. military’s top general laid out the risks to President Trump of launching a major and extended attack on Iran, one of the issues he flagged was America’s stockpi...
By Becca Wasser
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Iran Strike Marks First Time U.S. Used New One-Way Attack Drones in Combat
As part of its wave of airstrikes against Iran this weekend, U.S. Central Command confirmed that it had launched its new low-cost kamikaze drones, the first time the weapons h...
By Samuel Bendett
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Defense / Middle East Security
Defensive Munition Shortages to Shape Attack on IranLimited supplies of critical defensive munitions to protect US forces and allies from Tehran’s missiles are likely to shape the military offensive against Iran, according to o...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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New from CNAS | Embracing a Hellscape Strategy to Defend Taiwan
Developing a Four-Layer Defense to Defeat a Chinese Invasion...
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Does the U.S. Have Enough Aircraft Carriers for All Trump’s Wars?
As his latest threats to Iran suggest, President Donald Trump has become increasingly comfortable deploying military force around the world. But even with a military as large ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China’s First Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier Will Challenge U.S. Sea PowerNew satellite imagery obtained by Newsweek shows work advancing on China’s fourth aircraft carrier, with defense analysts increasingly convinced the vessel will be nuclear-pow...
By Tom Shugart
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Defense / Middle East Security
IDF Says Forces on High Alert amid Tensions with Iran, No Change to Public AdvisoriesThe IDF addressed the public on Friday through IDF spokesperson Effie Defrin, reassuring citizens about their readiness amid escalating tensions with Iran....
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Middle East Security
The ‘Incredibly Significant’ U.S. Military Forces Surrounding Iran“This is a build-up like what we saw right before the Iraq war” in 2003, particularly in terms of air power, said Becca Wasser, a military strategy expert at the Center for a ...
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump’s Threatened Strikes to Push Iran Deal Risk BackfiringPresident Donald Trump said he is considering limited military strikes to pressure Iran into signing a new nuclear deal, but bombing the country may have the opposite effect, ...
By Becca Wasser
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As Dems Push for Briefing on El Paso Incident, Experts Warn It Could Be the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’
“I think coordination has been lacking, and you're seeing a lot more sort of cowboy behavior, which could be problematic,” Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of th...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
What Iran’s Naval Exercise with China and Russia in the Strait of Hormuz Actually MeansAs the U.S. flows assets toward the Middle East, including the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (CSG) now reportedly off the Moroccan coast, Iran, China and Russia will hol...
By Tom Shugart
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How Trump Revived Gunboat Diplomacy
The message to the Islamic Republic is unmistakable: submit to US demands or face the wrath of the world’s most powerful navy....
By Tom Shugart
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The U.S. Is Racing to Build a Drone Shield and This 90-Degree Missile Could Power Trump’s “Golden Dome”
A missile fires straight up, pivots, and kills a drone midair, JAGM’s latest test hints at a new weapon in America’s race to counter aerial threats....
By Stacie Pettyjohn