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Scatter and Survive: Inside a U.S. Military Shift to Deny China ‘Big, Juicy’ Targets
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The remote Pacific airfield used to launch the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II is being revived with a different foe in mind: China. Runways emerging from the enc...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Russia’s Illicit Starlink Terminals Help Power Its Advance in Ukraine
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Before Starlink revolutionized the market, previous generations of field satellite terminals suffered from low speeds and high prices. Now users can buy terminals for a few hu...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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China Is Menacing Taiwan with Drone Swarms and U.S. Is Playing Catch-Up
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"The military and commercial drone industrial base in both nations is quite weak," said Stacie Pettyjohn, an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, of Taiwan and t...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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After Key Town Falls in Ukraine’s East, Russian Forces Push Into Another
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A week after Russia captured Vuhledar, a town that anchored Ukraine’s defenses in the country’s southeast, Moscow’s forces are continuing to advance in the area, pushing into ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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America’s Greatest Adversary? Kamala Harris Says Iran Is ‘An Obvious’ Answer
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WASHINGTON — Though the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community have long identified China as America’s number one geopolitical challenge, when Democratic presidenti...
By Becca Wasser
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Iran’s Massive Missile Strike on Israel Is Just a Fraction of What China Could Do
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The differences between Iran's attack and a potential Chinese missile strike are probably best understood in terms of scale, sophistication, and intent. A Chinese missile stri...
By Tom Shugart
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China Nuclear Sub Sank in Its Dock, U.S. Officials Say
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Thomas Shugart, a former US Navy submariner and an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, first noticed the incident involving the submarine in July. He told the B...
By Tom Shugart
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Top Former Defense Officials Release New Report on Accelerating DoD Innovation
Press Release
Washington, September 25, 2024 – Today, the Center for a New American Security released a new report, Integration for Innovation: A Report of the CNAS Defense Technology Task ...
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U.S. Tackles a Military Vulnerability in the Pacific: Supply Lines
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America is rethinking its logistics in the vast region, with training involving giant fuel bladders in the Australian Outback...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Russia Will Be ‘At War’ with NATO If Ukraine Long-Range Missile Restrictions Lifted, Putin Warns
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A group of key House Republicans also wrote to the president this week ahead of Blinken’s Ukraine trip, echoing appeals from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to lift the...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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CNAS Releases Open Source Dataset on Drone Proliferation
Press Release
Washington, September 10, 2024 – Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released the Drone Proliferation Dataset by Molly Campbell. As drones become an increasin...
By Molly Campbell
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What the “Rocket Drone” Palianytsia Means for Ukraine
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I don't think this is a game-changing capability," Stacie Pettyjohn, the defense program director at the Center for a New American Security, told me. But if "Ukraine can acqui...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The Pentagon Is Planning a Drone ‘Hellscape’ to Defend Taiwan
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“China has essentially copied all of the large and medium high-altitude drones the US has and produced what amount to cheaper versions of the MQ-9 Reaper or the [RQ-4] Global ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Why China’s and Russia’s Militaries Are Training Together
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China and Russia have pressed an informal political and economic alliance against the West. Now they are stepping up the cooperation between their militaries with increasingly...
By Becca Wasser
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America’s Middle East Defense Rests on Aircraft Carriers
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With the United States and Israel expecting a military response any minute now from Iran or its proxies for the recent deaths of Hamas’s political leader and Hezbollah’s secon...
By Becca Wasser
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F-16 Fighter Jets Arrive in Ukraine but May Not Tip Advantage Against Russia
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Some analysts are even more skeptical than Zelensky. Becca Wasser, an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, said the F-16s might be most potent as a psychological...
By Becca Wasser
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Cambodian Naval Base Could Accommodate Chinese Submarines: Analyst
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A new dry dock that could be used to service Chinese submarines has been added to Ream naval base in southern Cambodia, a U.S. military analyst said. The construction of a new...
By Tom Shugart
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US Defence Industry Faces Uncertainty Despite Production ‘Boomlet’
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"It is not quite a bonanza" for missiles and munitions "but it is, for the first time in a long time, a significant uptick in this area that has been sustained", said Stacie P...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Needs Longer-Range Drones for Potential China-Taiwan Conflict: Think Tank
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Stacie Pettyjohn, CNAS defense director and one of the authors of the report, has expressed doubts about the potential war being a fair fight. She said China has more drones t...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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How Underwater Drones Could Shape a Potential Taiwan-China Conflict
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A potential future conflict between Taiwan and China would be shaped by novel methods of drone warfare involving advanced underwater drones and increased levels of autonomy, a...
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Hannah Dennis & Molly Campbell
