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Above the Arctic Circle, Infantry Marines Are Improvising to Battle Harsh Conditions as Part of NATO Force
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While the physical environment is not new, the geopolitical one is. Those changes center around Russia's invasion of Ukraine and have had deep effects on NATO's concern for de...
By Becca Wasser
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Biden’s State of the Union comes as foreign policy consensus fractures
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Biden will also be addressing that sizable segment of the “Make America Great Again” electorate and may make the case that funding Ukraine’s defense is necessary to forestall ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Why sending a US Navy hospital ship to Gaza would be very difficult but ‘not impossible’
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The difference in ship size matters for operations planners inside the Pentagon: The much larger American hospital ships usually stay far away from foreign coastlines or ports...
By Jonathan Lord
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U.S. ties to Qatar in spotlight, and under scrutiny, following strategic dialogue
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Qatar’s key role as a mediator in the Middle East, while Americans are held hostage in Gaza, cements Washington’s reliance on Doha. And while Qatar is actively negotiating a d...
By Jonathan Lord
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Pentagon’s priority on AI spending could shield it from cuts
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Josh Wallin, a fellow in the Center for a New American Security’s defense program, predicted that DOD’s planned AI expenditures would be “relatively safe” in future budgets — ...
By Josh Wallin
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US officials say Houthi bombing campaign hindered by intel gaps
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The Pentagon has faced a "major challenge" in balancing ongoing military needs to check China in the Pacific with mounting demands for intelligence capabilities in the Middle ...
By Jonathan Lord
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The South China Sea Is the Next Test of US Resolve
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The two nations are not yet close to going to war. But collisions and clashes can easily escalate. China’s truculence therefore raises the question: Under what circumstances s...
By Jacob Stokes
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Biden Issues Order Seeking to Protect American Data from Foreign Adversaries
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Hannah Kelley, research associate at the Center for a New American Security’s Technology and National Security Program told VOA’s Mandarin service the executive order is an ef...
By Hannah Kelley
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China's Coast Guard: The Tip of Xi's Spear
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"There are no easy answers [to gray zone warfare]. China has dedicated enormous resources to making itself into the world's premier maritime power by most measures," said Tom ...
By Tom Shugart
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Why the European Union and United States are leading ‘parallel’ security operations in the Red Sea
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“The primary difference between the two coalitions is the activities. The EU coalition will engage in purely defensive activities — providing maritime domain awareness, accomp...
By Jonathan Lord
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AI Targeting, Used in US Airstrikes, Is Just The Beginning
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Retired Air Force General Jack Shanahan predicts that it will be five years before the US military feels comfortable enough to start using AI engines to recommend the ideal we...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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NATO’s Military Has a New Nerve Center
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The plans could take years more to put in place. “We are talking decades—potentially plural,” said Becca Wasser, a senior fellow for the defense program at the Center for a Ne...
By Becca Wasser
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Jon Stewart says the Israel-Gaza solution could be a DMZ governed by an Arab NATO. Some experts say it's a pipe dream.
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"Every American administration going back decades has discussed some version of this. Under Trump, it was the Middle East Strategic Alliance," said Jonathan Lord, director of ...
By Jonathan Lord
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US sanctions oil tankers, targeting Iranian funding for Russian, Houthi arms
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The measures are targeted to Iran's involvement with regional terror groups and Russia's military supply chains, said Rachel Ziemba, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Ukraine's allies keep hitting Russia with more sanctions — and Russia keeps finding ways around them
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Sanctions have, to some extent, "achieved an economic shock to Russia," said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct fellow at the Centre for New American Security who tracks the impacts of...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Putin, Trump, production capacity: the defence challenges facing Europe
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Jim Townsend, a former US deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and Nato policy, said: “Right now, does Europe have the ability to fill gaps the US might leave? T...
By Jim Townsend
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How initial US support for aiding Ukraine has come to a standstill 2 years later
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"I think Putin feels extraordinarily confident heading into the third year of the war in Ukraine," Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a director at the Center for a New American Security ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Will the U.S. Abandon Ukraine?
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For all its recent gains in Avdiivka, the Russian military is also an exhausted force—and one that is losing more tanks, howitzers and other military equipment to Ukrainian fo...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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What the Pentagon has learned from two years of war in Ukraine
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The Ukraine conflict has challenged core assumptions. The war has become an attritional slugfest with each side attempting to wear down the other, a model thought to be anachr...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Are Ukraine’s defenses starting to crumble?
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Avdiivka was “not a mere symbolic Russian victory,” said Franz-Stefan Gady, an Austrian military analyst with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), who travels regula...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
