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A Navy Carrier Is About to Deploy with a Robot Ship. Could It Change the Service Forever?
“This is a really important, initial early step in terms of developing those CONOPS. The Navy isn’t waiting around to develop a bunch of prototypes and just sort of leave them...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Tells Europe, Canada to Boost NATO Air and Naval Forces as Washington Steps Back
Jim Townsend, a former senior Pentagon official now at the Center for a New American Security think tank, said the move sent the wrong political signal to U.S. allies and t...
By Jim Townsend
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Russia Is Showing Signs of Weakness in Ukraine. So It Hits Harder.
“Ukraine’s position is much, much more formidable now than just a year ago,” Franz-Stefan Gady, a military analyst based in Vienna and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center f...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Trump Hits the Stalemate Phase of His International Interventions, and It Stings
“Foreign policy tends to be a long and difficult enterprise,” Richard Fontaine, a former top aide to Senator John McCain and now the chief executive of the Center for a New Am...
By Richard Fontaine
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Ukraine Turns Real-Life Kills Into Video Game Thrills for Drone Pilots
Franz-Stefan Gady, an analyst in Vienna with the Center for a New American Security, cautioned perspective. While it’s “a reasonable estimate to assume that they have been los...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Russia Is Turning More of Its Shaheds Into Operator-Guided Drones That Can Hunt Moving Targets and Dodge DefensesSamuel Bendett, an expert on Russian drones with the Center for Naval Analyses and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told Business Insider th...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine Is Turning the Tables
Franz-Stefan Gady, a Vienna-based military analyst who frequently travels to the front, says that by deploying swarms of FPVs to establish the 20km-deep kill zone, Kyiv has re...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Russia Is Arming Attack Drones with New Electronic Defenses to Fight off Ukrainian Interceptors
Samuel Bendett, a Russian drone expert and advisor with the Center for Naval Analyses, a US-based research organization, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New A...
By Samuel Bendett
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Iran War Saps U.S. Military Ahead of Any Potential China Conflict
“Between this and the operations in South America, you’ve got a certain ratio of operational time to maintenance time that has to be maintained,” said Tom Shugart, a former U....
By Tom Shugart
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Europe Troop Move Puts Spotlight on Last Man Out of AfghanistanDowngrading to a lieutenant general would be “against the grain” for allies who see Russia as a near-term threat, said Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of def...
By Jim Townsend
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Defense / National Security Human Capital
‘Insatiable’ Demand: Inside the Fight for a Bigger U.S. Special Forces Budget“If they’ve got 100 Shaheds coming at them, how are they going to deal with that?” Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy, t...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump Returns from China with Little Progress on Reopening Hormuz
“Negotiations are deadlocked, violence erupts sporadically and the economic costs of the prolonged closing of the Strait of Hormuz are rising,” Bloomberg Economics defense lea...
By Becca Wasser
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Russia’s War Is Going Badly—on the Ground and in the Air“Ukraine is certainly in a stronger position than many expected,” said Franz-Stefan Gady, a Vienna-based military analyst and head of Gady Consulting. But war involves cycles ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Fuel, Munitions and Food: The Mounting Toll of Trump’s Iran War
The budget and future supplemental requests represent “a lot of money” and it is “going to have economic knockdown effects”, said Carlton Haelig, a defence fellow at the Cente...
By Carlton Haelig
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What Beijing Has Learned About the U.S. from the Iran War
The Chinese missile stockpile is likely much larger than the one Iran has on hand, so “they can treat some of their missiles in the way that Iran has treated their drones,” sa...
By Becca Wasser
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Rubio Approves $25.8 Billion in Weapons Push for Mideast Nations
Given the long wait time associated with most foreign military sales, “if you inject a priority new request, that’s going to displace or delay delivery to someone else,” said ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Air Force, Space Force Make ‘Explicit Shift’ in RDT&E Funding, Experts Say
By Carlton Haelig
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From Ukraine to Taiwan: Drone Warfare Lessons Meet Indo-Pacific Reality
"It's not really about 'swarms' yet -- it's about mass. Large volumes of drones used in salvos to overwhelm defenses and increase the probability of a successful strike," said...
By Molly Campbell
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The U.S. Has Been Burning Through Weapons in Iran It Could Need in a War with China. Here Are the Latest Estimates.
Franz-Stefan Gady, a defense expert at the Center for a New American Security, also warned on Wednesday that it would take four to five years to replenish US precision munitio...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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How Iran’s Cheap, Low-Tech Drones Have Cost the U.S.
Air defense training teaches service members to prioritize using longer-range defense systems first to “get as many bites at the apple as you can,” but those are the most expe...
By Stacie Pettyjohn