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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
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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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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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Experts Say Trump’s Plan to License Patriot Missiles for Ukraine Could Take Years
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Franz-Stefan Gady at the Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan policy organization, wrote in a statement that the promise was "welcome" and "signals durable US comm...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Trump Says He’ll Let Ukraine Make Patriot Missiles. It Won’t Be Easy
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“A Patriot missile takes years to build, meaning Ukrainian production of these missiles won’t materialize on the near-term timelines they need,” said Bloomberg Economics defen...
By Becca Wasser
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Castelion Readies for U.S. Army, Navy Demos of Its Hypersonic Missiles
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Hypersonic missiles — meaning maneuverable designs that reach at least five times the speed of sound, or Mach 5 — “have historically for the United States been a prohibitively...
By Philip Sheers
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Russia Rocks Ukrainian Capital with Massive Assault, Killing at Least 30
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The goal of the Russian air campaign was twofold, said Franz-Stefan Gady, an analyst in Vienna with the Center for a New American Security. On one hand, Moscow hoped “to degra...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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U.S., NATO Sailors Train to Counter Swarm Surface Drone Threats
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The decision to charge such a high-ranking official for mishandling classified documents is "rare" but not unprecedented, said Carrie Cordero, a senior fellow at the Center fo...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Defence Groups to Meet Donald Trump as Missile Production Struggles
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That will require a transformation of what Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defence programme at the Center for a New American Security think-tank in Washington, describes as...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The Billionaire Hidden Behind the Curtain Inside Trump’s Pentagon
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There’s nothing new about demands for change and reform and speed at the Pentagon. “People have been saying for decades you need to reform it,” Stacie Pettyjohn, of the Center...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Air Force Buys New Generation of Drones Made to Strike Deep Into Enemy Territory
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“I think we always want the leading edge, and to the extent possible, to have uncrewed systems forward, since they are going to be at risk, as we’ve seen in Iran and Yemen,” s...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Ukraine’s Azov Fighters Were Forced from Mariupol. Now They’re Hitting Back.
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Azov's strikes are "cumulative rather than decisive", said Franz-Stefan Gady, a Vienna-based expert with the Center for a New American Security, as they force Russia's army to...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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China Prepares for Submarine War by Mapping Seabed Around Taiwan
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Five days of mapping would not achieve much knowledge additional to that which China already has, said Thomas Shugart, a former US submarine commander, who analyses China’s na...
By Tom Shugart
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Iran Likely Added Russian-Made Missiles as It Rebuilt Arsenal
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“Despite all the tactical successes claimed by the United States, it hasn’t achieved its goals of crippling Iran’s defense industrial base or significantly degrading Iran’s mi...
By Becca Wasser
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What We Know About U.S. Sea Drone Used in Helicopter Crew Rescue Mission
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"This Corsair vessel has been around for a few years now - the US Navy has about 50 of them," according to Dr Stacie Pettyjohn, a US military expert at the Center for a New Am...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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A Navy Carrier Is About to Deploy with a Robot Ship. Could It Change the Service Forever?
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“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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Russia Is Showing Signs of Weakness in Ukraine. So It Hits Harder.
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“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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Ukraine Turns Real-Life Kills Into Video Game Thrills for Drone Pilots
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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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Trump Hits the Stalemate Phase of His International Interventions, and It Stings
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“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
