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Why China’s and Russia’s Militaries Are Training Together
In The News
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
In The News
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
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Why a Drone War in Asia Would Look Different from the One in Ukraine
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Twenty years ago the drone was a rarity in conflict. In 2003, the first year of its war in Iraq, America had a paltry 163 drones, around 1% of its entire fleet of aircraft. No...
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Hannah Dennis & Molly Campbell
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America’s War Machine Can’t Make Basic Artillery Fast Enough
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Higher-tech shells that were intended to replace the traditional 155mm munitions failed an early test in Ukraine, when their targeting systems were thwarted by Russia. The pro...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The U.S. Tests Putin’s Nuclear Threats in Ukraine
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What difference will this make? Franz-Stefan Gady, an Austria-based military analyst with the Center for a New American Security, said it’s “obviously important that the Ukrai...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms
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“This is a big shift,” says Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security , a Washington, DC, think tank. She says that the US military has so fa...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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America’s New Island Fighters Are Preparing for Conflict—a Stone’s Throw From Taiwan
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If China moved to invade Taiwan, American forces would want to shift some U.S. warplanes to these sites. The idea would be to disperse U.S. aircraft across an array of bases a...
By Becca Wasser
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CNAS Announces Members of Defense Technology Task Force
Press Release
Washington, May 23, 2024—The Center for a New American Security is pleased to announce the members of its Defense Tech Task Force. They will be joined by the previously announ...
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Record Number of Chinese Warships Operating in Cambodia
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Cambodia’s defense ministry has praised joint activities with China for enhancing its military’s capabilities as well as its combat skills. The Golden Dragon 2024 exercise is...
By Tom Shugart
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In The News
Defense / Transatlantic Security
Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Northern UkrainePart of the Russians’ plan with this overall attack, military analysts said, is to threaten Kharkiv and force Ukraine to divert troops from other battlefields, especially thos...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Here’s the Defense Tech at the Center of U.S. Aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
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For a closer look at the military technology at the center of the aid package, I spoke with Andrew Metrick, a fellow with the defense program at the Center for a New American ...
By Andrew Metrick
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Ukraine Is Finally Getting More US Aid. It Won’t Win the War — but It Can Save Them from Defeat.
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Franz-Stefan Gady, an analyst with the Center for a New American Security who recently returned from a study trip to the front lines in Ukraine, said the new aid package was l...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Ukraine Looks to Stop the Bleeding as U.S. Readies More Aid
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Becca Wasser, a senior fellow for the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, said the incoming aid package is significant but will not “magically solve all...
By Becca Wasser
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In The News
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Trump Will See Nuclear Subs as a ‘Win-Win’, U.S. Foreign Policy Guru PredictsOne of America’s leading foreign policy thinkers has played down fears that Donald Trump could discard the AUKUS pact or seek revenge against Australian ambassador Kevin Rudd ...
By Richard Fontaine
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The U.S. Can’t Let China Dominate the Small-Drone Market
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Russia’s war on Ukraine is a wake-up call on the dangers of letting an unfriendly nation dominate the drone market. Both sides are deploying thousands of Chinese drones, said ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
