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Preparing for a China War, the Marines Are Retooling How They’ll Fight
Though NMESIS vehicles radiate heat, and radar emits signals that can be detected, the Marines try to lower their profile by spacing out the vehicles, camouflaging them and mo...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Above the Arctic Circle, Infantry Marines Are Improvising to Battle Harsh Conditions as Part of NATO Force
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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Pentagon’s Priority on AI Spending Could Shield It from Cuts
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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China's Coast Guard: The Tip of Xi's Spear
"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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NATO’s Military Has a New Nerve Center
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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Defense / Transatlantic Security
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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Defense / Transatlantic Security
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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Defense / Technology & National Security
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 U.S. 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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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
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New CNAS Report: “Evolution Not Revolution: Drone Warfare in Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine”
Washington, February 8, 2024 —Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, Evolution Not Revolution: Drone Warfare in Russia’s 2022 Invasion of ...
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Defense / Technology & National Security
How Cheap Drones Are Transforming Warfare in UkraineThe appeal of FPV drones is that they offer cheap, accurate firepower. Unguided artillery shells cost anywhere between $800 and $9,000. A GPS-guided shell is closer to $100,00...
By Franz-Stefan Gady & Samuel Bendett
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The Logistics of War: How Washington Is Preparing for a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
In a war game run for Congress in April, China prepared for an amphibious assault on Taiwan with massive air and missile strikes against U.S. bases in the region. That include...
By Becca Wasser
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This Ambush Shows How Ukraine Is Holding the Line
“At this stage of the war, neither side has been able to establish a decisive fire advantage,” said Franz-Stefan Gady, an independent military analyst who has toured the front...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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The ‘Crown Jewel’ of the Chinese Military Appears to Have a Serious Corruption Problem, but the U.S. Can’t Afford to Bet on Its Missiles All Being Defective
"The rocket force is the center of gravity for the Chinese military," Tom Shugart, a former US Navy officer who is now an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New America...
By Tom Shugart
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How Building Fake Aircraft Carriers and Destroyers in the Desert Could Be Helping China Better Threaten the U.S. Navy
It is not surprising the Chinese would develop a mock-up of the new carrier, Tom Shugart, a former US Navy submarine commander who's now an adjunct senior fellow at the Center...
By Tom Shugart
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Congress Asks Department of the Air Force for 2050 Force Design Plan. What Will It Mean?
The department’s ongoing re-optimization review, implemented by Secretary Frank Kendall this fall, will likely inform that force design, which will be due by Aug. 31, 2024. “T...
By Becca Wasser & Hannah Dennis
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Why Is Israel Using So Many Dumb Bombs in Gaza?
A report published last year by Operation Inherent Resolve, the American-led coalition against Islamic State (is), which has been bombing Iraq and Syria for almost a decade, m...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
What Happens in Ukraine If U.S. Aid Disappears?So both sides seem committed to continuing the war — but what would it look like if the US decides to bow out? “A failure to supply military aid to Ukraine isn’t going to caus...
By Franz-Stefan Gady