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Fuel, Munitions and Food: The Mounting Toll of Trump’s Iran War
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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
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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
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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
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By Carlton Haelig
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From Ukraine to Taiwan: Drone Warfare Lessons Meet Indo-Pacific Reality
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"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.
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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.
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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
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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?
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“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
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“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
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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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How China Uses Commercial Ships to Pressure Taiwan Without Firing a Shot
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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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Calls for Tougher U.S. Bunkers, Hangars Go Back Years, Analysts Say
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“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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What Options Does the Air Force Have for E-3 Taken Out by Iran?
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“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
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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
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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
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Iranian Strikes Target the Infrastructure Behind U.S. Airpower
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Philip Sheers, an associate fellow in the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security, said the loss emphasizes the burden on the airborne battle management flee...
By Philip Sheers
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China Deploying Fighter Jets-Turned Drones Near Taiwan
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"Large numbers of these coming across the Strait in conjunction with other strike aircraft or cruise missiles could help in overwhelming Taiwanese—and potentially U.S. and Jap...
By Tom Shugart
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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump Has Options to Invade Iran—All of Them Would Cost Dearly"The big limitation that I see, really, to any of this is the fact that Iran's geography is not favorable to invasion, and it's been a fact of Iran's internal defense for mill...
By Carlton Haelig
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‘We’re Not Keeping Up’: Why the Future of War Still Eludes U.S. Leaders
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“When you combine good intelligence surveillance reconnaissance with guided munitions — that was the future we were worried about,” Work, who is now a distinguished senior fel...
By Robert O. Work
