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The US can’t use its $110 million drone base in Niger
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The base serves as a critical intelligence and surveillance hub for the U.S. military’s efforts to combat violent extremism in North and West Africa, said Jocelyn Trainer, an ...
By Jocelyn Trainer
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Biden Made the Final Call on Space Command Basing. Was the Air Force Out of the Loop?Katherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank who researches military culture and family issues, told Military.com that the preside...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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US troops in Ukraine now eligible for combat payThe move could be related to President Joe Biden’s July 13 executive order designating Operation Atlantic Resolve as a contingency operation, said Katherine Kuzminski, directo...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Russia’s Fighter Jets Have Gone from Harassing Us Aircraft to Actually Breaking Them as Moscow Flexes Its Muscles Where It Still Can
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Russia sees its activities in Syria "as one area that really speaks to Russian global power and influence," Nicholas Lokker, an expert on Russian foreign policy at the Center ...
By Nicholas Lokker
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Data on Air Bases Suggest a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan May Not Be Imminent
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Spreading out planes across bases limits vulnerability. But parked planes can be shielded from attacks that evade air defences only in robust buildings that absorb incoming fi...
By Tom Shugart
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For 50 Years, Recruiting a Volunteer Military Was Salesmanship. Now, Few Are Buying.In 1981, the Army introduced a new recruiting slogan, one it would keep for two decades: “Be all you can be.” “It was so well-executed, because it truly did get into how servi...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Afghanistan shows the U.S. needs a doctrine not just for fighting wars, but also leaving themBut recognizing these mistakes won’t necessarily keep a future administration from making them again. Christopher Kolenda, a retired Army colonel and an adjunct senior fellow ...
By Chris Kolenda
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The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI“Once that software has been developed, it’s effectively costless for that software to proliferate and be reused elsewhere,” said Paul Scharre, a drone expert at the Center fo...
By Paul Scharre & Samuel Bendett
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New CNAS Report: “U.S.-China Competition and Military AI: How Washington Can Manage Strategic Risks amid Rivalry with Beijing”
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Washington, July 25, 2023 — Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, “U.S.-China Competition and Military AI: How Washington Can Manage Stra...
By Jacob Stokes, Alexander Sullivan & Noah Greene
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Biden Takes His Battle for Democracy Case by Case
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Richard Fontaine, chief executive of Center for a New American Security, said America’s approach to promoting democracy abroad “has always been a model of inconsistency.” Mr. ...
By Richard Fontaine
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NOTEWORTHY: Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AIIn this edition of Noteworthy, researchers from the AI Safety and Stability team comment on the announcement from the White House on securing voluntary commitments on safety, ...
By Paul Scharre, Tim Fist, Bill Drexel, Michael Depp, Caleb Withers & Noah Greene
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AI: How far is China behind the West?"The most cutting-edge AI systems require massive amounts of hardware — thousands of very specialized chips, running for weeks or months at a time," Paul Scharre, executive vi...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump and DeSantis debut dueling military policies“There doesn’t seem to be very much daylight between the two of them on a couple of different fronts,” said Katherine Kuzminski, an armed forces expert and society at the Cent...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The U.S. military is still confronting Russian pilots over Syria
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However, it’s also possible that the Russians are trying to keep tensions with the U.S. forces in Syria simmering below the level of a full conflict, said Jonathan Lord, direc...
By Jonathan Lord
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Inside the fight over alternative sub fuel
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That “performance trade-off” is why the U.S. Navy is not keen on low-enriched uranium. It’s an “inferior type of fuel” that means “basically less gas in the tank,” said Tom Sh...
By Tom Shugart
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Inspired by Ukraine war, Taiwan launches drone blitz to counter ChinaToday, China has virtually cornered the global commercial drone market, accounting for an estimated 80% of sales, according to some industry estimates. This is a key advantage...
By Elsa B. Kania
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CNAS Responds: Oppenheimer and Global Nuclear Security
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The much-anticipated release of Oppenheimer has thrust nuclear security back into mainstream discourse. In this edition of CNAS Responds, CNAS experts assess the global state ...
By Lisa Curtis, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Bill Drexel, Nicholas Lokker, Michael Depp, Jocelyn Trainer, Arona Baigal, Taren Sylvester, Noah Greene, Rebecca Wittner, Ayla McBreen, Laredo Loyd, Dr. Duyeon Kim, Valeria Allende, LCDR Stewart Latwin & Charles Horn
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Rare submarine visit reminds North Korea of U.S. nuclear missiles out of sight, in range
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“Placing nuclear weapons offshore and on submarines is actually a stronger deterrent in many ways,” said Duyeon Kim of the Center for a New American Security. “Deterrence is s...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Jonathan Levine Joins CNAS Board of Advisors
Washington, D.C., July 20, 2023—The Center for a New American Security is pleased to welcome Jonathan Levine to its Board of Advisors. “We are delighted that Jonathan Levine i...
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NOTEWORTHY Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active DutyIn this edition of Noteworthy, Katherine Kuzminski and Taren Sylvester discuss changes recently made by President Biden to Select Reserve and Individual Ready Reserve to activ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Taren Sylvester
