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The Air Force Retreats from Studying China
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CASI’s goal is to “study everything that flies in China” in order to “better understand decision making, limitations, opportunities, and challenges,” as then-Chairman of the J...
By Tom Shugart
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What Boeing’s F/A-XX Win Means for the Company, and What Challenges Come Next
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Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, voiced similar sentiments, saying that winning F/A-XX represen...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Fortress Guam: The Environmental Cost of Preparing for War with China
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“The reason that Guam was important in the 1600s for the Spanish was the same reason it was important for the United States when they got it from Spain in 1898, the same reaso...
By Carlton Haelig
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Russia’s Secret Plan to Supercharge Kamikaze Drone Production
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Drones allow Moscow to “launch these massive volleys and put pressure on deep targets within Ukraine at many different locations, and ensure that they can saturate the defense...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Space Weapon Announcement Comes amid Deepening Space Race, Experts Say
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The weapons could carry capabilities from directed energy to electromagnetic spectrum jamming technology to kinetic capabilities like missiles, according to experts. The weapo...
By Philip Sheers
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The Era of AI Warfare Has Arrived
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The continuing U.S. conflict with Iran demonstrates that even when targeting works effectively, it may not produce victory. Iran is a “textbook case study of this”, says Franz...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Experts Say Trump’s Plan to License Patriot Missiles for Ukraine Could Take Years
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Practical realities aside, scholars called the licensing proposal as a signal of increased buy-in from the White House, whose support for Ukraine has shifted repeatedly. Franz...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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The New Jet-Powered Drones That Are Breeding Anxiety in Ukraine
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Behind that audible contrast are potentially lethal differences. Jet-powered drones “are effectively cheap cruise missiles,” explained Franz-Stefan Gady, a military analyst ba...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Russia-NATO Shadow War Pushes Europe to the Brink
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"The Leipzig attribution fits a pattern of intensifying Russian sub-threshold activity across Europe, and the trend line clearly points toward escalation rather than restraint...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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The U.S. Army’s Sweeping Transformation for Future Wars Has Lost Some of Its Biggest Champions
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"This decision is quite puzzling, given the Pentagon's Drone dominance initiative and the push for the US military to integrate drones into their formations and operations," S...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Russia Is Slowly Grinding Through the Donbas as Ukraine Braces for a Brutal Fight over Its Last Strongholds
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Military analyst Franz-Stefan Gady, author of Attack: When War Comes to Us and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, offers a somewhat more optimist...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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The Russia-Ukraine Air War Has Entered a New, Deadlier Phase
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“The theory is that pain plus exhaustion produces political capitulation,” said Franz-Stefan Gady, a Vienna-based military analyst, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a N...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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U.S. Allies Warn Hormuz Is Still Mined Despite Trump Claim
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“It is highly unlikely that all the mines in the strait have been cleared,” said Becca Wasser, Bloomberg Economics defense lead and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a N...
By Becca Wasser
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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
