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Why a Drone War in Asia Would Look Different from the One in Ukraine
In The News
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 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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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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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
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Preparing for a China War, the Marines Are Retooling How They’ll Fight
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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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In The News
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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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
