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US resumes some drone operations in Niger for force protection
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Air Base 201 near Agadez has played a critical role in the U.S. military’s efforts to counter violent extremist groups in West Africa, Jocelyn Trainer, an expert on sub-Sahara...
By Jocelyn Trainer
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The US Military’s Grave New Frontier: Training for Conflict—Theoretically—With Another Superpower
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After a recent trip to Washington, DC—to help military experts workshop peer-to-peer war—Austrian army officer Franz-Stefan Gady, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Russia ramps up drone, guided bomb attacks to thwart counteroffensiveRussian state media has reported a ramp-up in production of Lancets, and at a cost estimated at $30,000 to $35,000, they are far cheaper than higher-end drones and missiles, s...
By Samuel Bendett
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Elon Musk’s Control of Starlink Gives Him Unchecked Power over Elected Governments
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"This is one of the challenges of relying on a commercial service that has its own interest in ensuring that it remains out of the crosshairs," Stacie Pettyjohn, director of t...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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‘Nothing left to lose’: Putin embraces role of spoiler with Kim Jong-un summit
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But there is an obvious logic to the Kremlin courting North Korea. It has ammunition that Russia needs to continue its war with Ukraine, where the Kremlin has had to ration it...
By Mike Kofman
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India’s Military Studying Options for Any China-Taiwan War
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Even though India is examining military options, it remains unlikely that the nation would get involved directly in a war over Taiwan, according to Lisa Curtis, senior fellow ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Taliban Sell Afghanistan's Mines Despite Sanctions
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“U.S. sanctions generally require U.S. persons and some foreign persons to comply,” said Alex Zerden, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “A foreign company co...
By Alex Zerden
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Ukraine primes air defences for new Russian winter assault on power gridUkraine appears to have prepared well for more strikes by drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), but their gradually increasing numbers could pose a problem, said Samuel B...
By Samuel Bendett
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Meet NATO’s new China-focused intel chief
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The intel position at NATO is generally an American job, partly because “we’re the ones that have most of the intel assets,” said JIM TOWNSEND, who spent years working on NATO...
By Jim Townsend
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Defense firms research voice commands to speak with drones“The ultimate goal right now, largely influenced by Ukraine, is to make the interactions between the operator and the drone as efficient as possible,” said Samuel Bendett, res...
By Samuel Bendett
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After death of Russia’s Wagner chief, what happens to his mercenary army?
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“Parts may be folded in under the Ministry of Defense, Russian intelligence, or to other oligarchs and leaders found more compliant, but none of those assets will wither at th...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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War sanctions against Russia highlight growing divisions among the Group of 20 countries
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“It's a combination of different factors that I think that makes it difficult for the G20 to work in concert in a way that they did in the past," said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunc...
By Rachel Ziemba
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'Unfair Burden': Tuberville Blockade on Promotions Is Stressing Military Families, 3 Service Secretaries SayKatherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank who researches military culture and family issues, told Military.com in an interview ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Why Ukraine is able to embarrass Russia's air defense systems, among the most advanced in the world, with small drones"Russia boasted of having layered defenses before the war, the sensor electronic warfare, different missile batteries, kinetic batteries, radars, that can sort of identify and...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russians Are Developing An Arsenal Of Deadlier FPV Drones — But Bureaucracy Is Holding Them BackSamuel Bendett, an expert Russian drones and adviser to both the CNA and CNAS, told Forbes that at present Russian FPVs are mainly used by irregular units from the Russian-con...
By Samuel Bendett
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The US, Allies See Opportunity and Risk in China’s Slowing Economy
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“The conventional wisdom seems to be flipping from a concern with the unstoppable rise of Chinese power to a worry about the irrevocable decline of China’s economy and populat...
By Richard Fontaine
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3M settled its combat earplug lawsuit for $6 billion – but don’t get too excitedHearing problems are common among U.S. troops who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Global War on Terrorism battlefields in part because of their exposure to blasts from ...
By Taren Sylvester
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Poland may soon have one of the strongest NATO armies: U.S. defense expert
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“This purchase makes a lot of sense. Assault helicopters are great tank killers. And if only Ukraine had an Apache now, it could not only destroy Russian tanks but also fire H...
By Jim Townsend
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US airstrike in Somalia kills 13 al-Shabab fighters
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U.S. airstrikes in Somalia can also lead to unintended consequences that actually help al-Shabab, said Jocelyn Trainer, an expert on the Horn of Africa with the Center for a N...
By Jocelyn Trainer
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Any Saudi-Israeli normalization requires clearing major security, defense roadblocks: Experts
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“I think it’s important to acknowledge that there doesn’t appear to be much ‘on the way’ other than an agreement to pursue an agreement,” Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle...
By Jonathan Lord
