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Iraq 20 years after the invasion: How Life is Better and Worse
Twenty years later, however, the results are decidedly mixed, say Iraqi experts, with gains coming at a huge expense. Estimates of war-related deaths vary but the Iraqi Body C...
By Hamzeh Hadad
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The Air Force That Gina Ortiz Jones Is Leaving Behind
“We’ve seen this across all military services,” said Katherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow and director of the military, veterans and society program at the Center for a New Am...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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NATO is Racing to Arm its Russian Borders. Can it Find the Weapons?
With countries already worried about their own munitions stockpiles and Ukraine in acute need of more shells and weapons from allies, there is a risk that not all NATO allies ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Jim Townsend
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At a Steam-Age Arsenal, U.S. Army Forges Cannons for a Digital Era, War in Ukraine
Watervliet holds special status as a rare Army-operated industrial manufacturing facility, but that hasn’t always translated to funding. For years after the Cold War, the indu...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Biden's Latest Move Against TikTok Raises Questions About Ban, Owner Sale
Hannah Kelley, a research assistant in the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security, said she doesn’t believe that ByteDance will agr...
By Hannah Kelley
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China Watches U.S. Banking Crisis
"A lot of people on both the U.S. and the Chinese side are pontificating about global financial contagion, or that Chinese startups are going to suffer and won't be able to ge...
By Emily Jin
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U.S. Reaches Deep Into Its Global Ammunition Stockpiles to Help Ukraine
The U.S. is now scrambling to ensure Ukraine has enough in stock for the next phase of the war, since artillery rounds will help Kyiv’s forces take back territory from Russia ...
By Michael Kofman
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Iraq War Went from US Invasion to Ongoing Invitation for Iran, Analysts Say
Mistakes and policy flip-flopping by the U.S. over the past 20 years have led many Iraqi leaders to decide that turning to their meddling neighbor is a more reliable option, s...
By Jonathan Lord
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China Reorganizing Science and Tech Ministry for Self-Sufficiency
Bill Drexel, a fellow in the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, told VOA Mandarin via email on March 10 that while the U.S. ex...
By Bill Drexel
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Why Won’t Vladimir Putin Cut His Losses in Ukraine?
Even in the face of heavy, increasing losses, Russian President Vladimir Putin remains resolved to continue fighting but is “grasping for meaning in a meaningless invasion”, w...
By Michael Kofman
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Top US Diplomat: We Encouraged Gulf Allies to Talk with Iran
Former Defense Department official Jonathan Lord agreed that much of the legwork for the Saudi Iran restoration of diplomatic ties had been started before China got involved. ...
By Jonathan Lord
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Downing of MQ-9 Reaper is Latest US Drone Lost in Contested Zone
Samuel Bendett, an expert at the Center for Naval Analyses, told C4ISRNET Russian media and other parties closely monitor “drone flights in the Black Sea and the proximity to ...
By Samuel Bendett
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BUDGET 2024: Flat Army Request Signals Focus on Indo-Pacific Capabilities
The significant investments into missiles — particularly long-range fires capabilities — and air and missile defense systems underscore the Army’s vision for “future Pacific o...
By Andrew Metrick
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Is This TikTok’s Huawei Moment?
“There’s a couple of factors that are probably playing into this shift that we’re seeing outside of the United States,” said Emily Kilcrease, senior fellow and director of the...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Russia’s Downing of US Drone Sparks Fears of Escalation
Administration officials said the MQ-9 was flying over the Black Sea on a routine flight before it was flanked by two Russian jets. The jets flew alongside the drone for 30 t...
By Becca Wasser
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U.S. MQ-9 'Reaper' Drones Compared to Russia's 'Orion' UAV
Russia's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is not quite as formidable, however, according to Samuel Bendett, Russia analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses. Bendett told Newswe...
By Samuel Bendett
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Something Is Missing From Americans’ Greatest Fears. It’s the Bomb.
Whether Americans are justified in no longer worrying so much about the bomb is another question. Jon Wolfsthal, a senior adviser to Global Zero, a group that advocates the ab...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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20 Years After US Invasion, Iraq Far From 'Liberal Democracy'
"Building democracy takes time and building a democracy doesn't create a utopia overnight," said Hamzeh Haddad, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations....
By Hamzeh Hadad
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Ukraine Short of Skilled Troops and Munitions as Losses, Pessimism Grow
The stakes for Ukraine in the coming months are particularly high, as Western countries aiding Kyiv look to see whether Ukrainian forces can once again seize the initiative an...
By Michael Kofman
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North Korea launches 2 cruise missiles from submarine ahead of US-South Korea military drills
North Korea claimed to have launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Sunday, but the South Korean military...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun