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The U.S. Start-Up Making Low-Cost Interceptors for the Iran War
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“They are complements, not substitutes, for the PAC-3,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security. S...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Korean Drone Boom Creates New Rumblings in Old Conflict
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A turn toward drones and lower reliance on manned military equipment could actually reduce the risk of violent clashes, according to Erik Lin-Greenberg, an associate professor...
By Erik Lin-Greenberg
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There’s No Shortcut to Replenish U.S. Munitions Stockpiles
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“The push for low-cost munitions is unlikely to have a material effect on the Iran War—at least not anytime soon,” said Becca Wasser, Bloomberg Economics’s defense lead and an...
By Becca Wasser
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Ukraine Seeks Elon Musk’s Help to Hit Russian Missile Launchers
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Even in the best case, said Franz-Stefan Gady, a military analyst based in Vienna and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, Ukraine was unlikely to ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Army Plans to Phase Out Drone Unit Championed by Sacked Generals
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“The U.S. is behind in adopting and fielding small drones. While the Pentagon is planning a massive investment in small drones, procurement is not enough to close this gap. Th...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Turns to Containing the Fallout From Setbacks in Iran
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“Even limited operations, such as the air wars over Kosovo and Libya, dragged on much longer than policymakers expected, and the U.S. ran short of critical precision guided we...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Reaper Losses Mount as Iran War Reshapes Drone Warfare
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At least 45 Reapers have been lost since the conflict began, according to The Washington Post, out of a pre-war US fleet of around 185 aircraft. But defence analyst Stacie Pet...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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How a Drone ‘Hellscape’ Might Stop a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
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Still, Taiwan is a long way from meeting the complex demands of 21st-century warfare, many experts said. It risks becoming “focused on the technology more than the equally ess...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The U.S. Army Is Fast-Tracking New Weapons as Trump Denies Shortages
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Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), tells TIME that the DoD is more concerned with testing ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Military Is Taking Drone Lessons from Wars in Ukraine, Middle East
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Some have criticized U.S. military training exercises for being unrealistic and lax. This is in part because the U.S. and some European countries regulate operations that coul...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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New Mystery Chinese Submarine Highlights Efforts to Build up Force
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“Based on the reported dimensions alone, I’d be surprised if this boat were not nuclear-powered,” said Thomas Shugart, a former U.S. Navy submarine commander now with the Cent...
By Tom Shugart
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The Hegseth Budget: Defense Secretary’s $1.5tn Ask Reveals Military-Industrial Chaos
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Hegseth disclosed a new estimate about the cost of the Iran war – $37.5bn. But he was vague. He said that that would include expenditures up to the present “for certain aspect...
By Becca Wasser
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World War A.I.
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“You’re dealing with a more unpredictable environment,” as Josh Wallin, a defense fellow at the Center for a New American Security, bluntly put it. He described the semiautono...
By Josh Wallin
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Revealed: China’s Plan to Bomb U.S. Warships
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“It’s messaging to Japan that ‘if there’s a fight, you’re going to be in it’. It’s messaging to the US that ‘if you try to intervene, we’re going to strike your bases’. And me...
By Tom Shugart
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Iran and Ukraine Bring Limits of Air Campaigns Into Sharp Focus
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“The U.S. long ago exhausted meaningful targets to hit from the air,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security. “The va...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Donald Trump’s Return to War with Iran Offers No Clear Path to Victory
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“It’s very hard to see what continually striking Iran via air power is actually going to net the US. And right now, that seems to be the option that President Trump is continu...
By Becca Wasser
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Trump’s Pledge to Lift Turkey Sanctions Sets up Fight with Congress, Allies
Carlton Haelig, a fellow with the defense program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), downplayed the concerns of the F-35 program’s security with Turkey fielding...
By Carlton Haelig
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There’s Promise — And Pitfalls — In the Army’s Low-Cost Interceptor Plan, Experts Say
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Such reasoning is “really sensible,” Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, told Breaking Defense, especially with lesson...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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China’s Missile Warning Demands a Stronger Defense Budget
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Tom Shugart, defense analyst and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, called the report a “quite important — and ominous — development.” The system...
By Tom Shugart
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Despite Trump’s Announcement, Patriot Missile Production in Ukraine May Not Start for Years
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Jonathan Rue, an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security and an advisory partner at MVP Ventures, isn’t holding his breath for the first missiles to ...
By W. Jonathan Rue
