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US weapons complicate Afghan war
Weaponry provided to the Afghan military over the last 16 years has slowly trickled down to the Taliban through corruption and battlefield losses. Armored vehicles, night visi...
By Adam Routh
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Trump Executive Order Directs Major Study of U.S. Defense Industrial Base
President Trump has directed the Pentagon to work with other agencies on a deep-dive analysis of the defense industrial base. The White House called it a “groundbreaking” effo...
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Navy's 'significant bet' on a $13B supercarrier dogged as an expensive boondoggle while threats loom
The newest and most expensive aircraft carrier ever built entered the U.S. Navy fleet Saturday, but almost three years behind schedule and billions of dollars over its estimat...
By Jerry Hendrix
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The U.S. Navy's most advanced warship will join the fleet on Saturday
Greg Willard remembers the excitement in his former boss’s voice when he called to share the news. It was early November 2006 and Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter had summoned ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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CNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy on NPR Morning Edition
In The News
David Greene talks to former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and President Trump's relationship with Russian Presiden...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Russian military 'harassed' US-flagged merchant ship in the Baltic ahead of exercises
The Russian military has been accused of harassing a U.S.-flagged cargo ship carrying equipment for an annual military exercise in the Baltic region that wrapped up Friday. At...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Navy collisions rare but provide lessons in their wake
While investigators search for the cause of a fatal collision involving the USS Fitzgerald with a container ship near Japan, Navy experts said such accidents are "very rare" b...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Artificial Stupidity: Fumbling The Handoff From AI To Human ControlScience fiction taught us to fear smart machines we can’t control. But reality should teach us to fear smart machines that need us to take control when we’re not ready. From P...
By Paul Scharre
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What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Trump’s Hand in Military Matters
Roll Call's White House correspondent John T. Bennett talks to Paul Scharre, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank, about President Donald Trump...
By Paul Scharre
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War with North Korea: An inside look at how U.S. troops would respond worldwide
The Trump administration sees no good military options in North Korea. The rogue regime’s missile tests are growing more frequent, and Kim Jong-Un is closer than ever to being...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Technology & National Security
What will the future of warfare look like?War. War never changes. From ancient Rome to the Second World War, it seems like it’s the same story being repeated. The tools of war might change, but war itself is always th...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
NATO Mulls Arctic and Atlantic Command to Counter RussiaThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization may revive a Cold War naval command to counter Moscow’s increased submarine activity in the Arctic and protect Atlantic sea lanes in the...
By Jerry Hendrix & Julianne Smith
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CNAS Launches Project on Evolving the Future Force
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce a new project, Evolving the Future Force led by CNAS’ Defense Strategies and Assessments Program. The init...
By Neal Urwitz
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Trump Wants New Aircraft Carriers to Turn Back to ‘Goddamned Steam’ Power Catapults
President Donald Trump is angry the U.S. Navy isn’t using more steam power. He sent the Navy scrambling Thursday after he suggested it scrap an already-built electromagnetic c...
By Jerry Hendrix
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‘You have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out’: Trump targets the Navy’s new aircraft catapult
President Trump set his sights on the Navy in a new interview, calling the service’s new electromagnetic catapult to launch planes off aircraft carriers “no good” and saying t...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Middle East Security
US weapons will soon flow to Kurds as they isolate ISIS fighters in RaqqaKurdish factions within the Syrian Democratic Forces will soon be getting U.S. arms for their battle with the Islamic State in Syria, according to officials in Baghdad. Despit...
By Adam Routh
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Disposable Drones Could Deliver Supplies Under Enemy FireGliders offer many advantages on the battlefield, not the least of which are low cost and silent operation—two things the military loves. That explains their prevalence during...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Exercise reveals NATO vulnerabilities to Russian hybrid threats in North AtlanticNATO is currently digesting the lessons of a tabletop exercise held at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) in Washington, DC, in February 2017 that confronted partic...
By Julianne Smith & Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Middle East Security
Syrian Kurds are now armed with sensitive US weaponrySyrian Kurdish fighters are newly armed with sophisticated American combat equipment as they close in on the Islamic State's stronghold in Raqqa, Military Times has learned, w...
By Adam Routh
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
CNAS Releases Report on Russian Challenges in the North AtlanticWashington, May 3 – As Russia continues to look for opportunities to undermine the European project and weaken transatlantic resolve and unity, the Center for a New American S...
By Julianne Smith & Jerry Hendrix
