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AI Targeting, Used in US Airstrikes, Is Just The Beginning
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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US sanctions oil tankers, targeting Iranian funding for Russian, Houthi arms
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
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
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
"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?
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
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?
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
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U.S. Campaign to Isolate Russia Shows Limits After 2 Years of War
“In the here and now, the sanctions have disappointed,” said Edward Fishman, a former State Department official in the Obama administration who oversaw Russia sanctions after ...
By Edward Fishman
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China-Taiwan Frictions Flare After Deaths of Fishermen
The latest maritime incidents fit a pattern of China “responding to events that Beijing views as provocations by escalating the situation in its response and using those oppor...
By Jacob Stokes
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Inside the Navy’s quest to fix its recruiting crisis
Looking ahead 20 to 40 years, who the Navy does or doesn’t recruit today will impact the future fleet, according to Katherine Kuzminski, director of the Military, Veterans, an...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Pentagon explores military uses of large language models
Paul Scharre, a former Defense Department official who is now executive vice president at the Center for a New American Security, said that some of the best uses probably have...
By Paul Scharre
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The revolution that wasn’t: How AI drones have fizzled in Ukraine (so far)
In early February, a detailed report from the Center for a New American Security dismissed the AI drones in a few lines. “The Lancet-3 was advertised as having autonomous targ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Samuel Bendett
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Does the US Army’s future lie in Europe or Asia?
What remains unsettled, says Billy Fabian, a former infantry officer and Pentagon planner, is how, precisely, the army’s combat forces should be organised for future wars: the...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Billy Fabian
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Plans to Expand U.S. Chip Manufacturing Are Running Into Obstacles
The delays come as the Biden administration begins dispensing the first major awards from a $39 billion pot of money aimed at building up the U.S. semiconductor industry and r...
By Emily Kilcrease
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The Air Force's First Female Enlisted Leader Broke the 'Brass Ceiling.' Here’s Her View on Retirement.
Katherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank who researches military culture, told Military.com that Bass, in many ways, was absol...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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US officials are always talking about “deterring” Iran. What does that really mean?
Jonathan Lord, a former Defense Department official who now directs the Middle East program at the Center for a New American Security, said the attacks on these targets seem c...
By Jonathan Lord
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The Vision Behind the US Consulate in Erbil Is Dissolving
Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East security program at the Center for New American Security, told New Lines, “In Washington, there’s an interest in moving beyond frami...
By Jonathan Lord
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Alibaba and Baidu Cash Out on Quantum Computing Stakes
“There are so few private sector players involved in China’s quantum ecosystem, and those were two of the biggest.” —Sam Howell, Center for a New American Security. ... Trying...
By Sam Howell
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China’s Shipyards Are Ready for a Protracted War. America’s Aren’t.
“The scale [of China’s shipbuilding] is just almost hard to fathom,” said Thomas Shugart, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security whose research foc...
By Tom Shugart