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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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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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Rubio Approves $25.8 Billion in Weapons Push for Mideast Nations
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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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How Iran’s Cheap, Low-Tech Drones Have Cost the U.S.
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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
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Trump Administration Expected to Slash Iran War Funding Request
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Stacie Pettyjohn, who directs the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank, said that even the reduced supplemental request would be a test of t...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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From Lockheed to European Start-Ups, Arms Makers Jostle for Iran War Orders
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Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defence programme at the Center for New American Security think-tank, said despite the Trump administration’s promise to focus on eliminating...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Here’s What Marine Expeditionary Units Are Designed to Do
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But with the Marine Corps in the midst of a massive reorganization — one that sees it shift its focus from irregular warfare to conventional conflict in the Indo-Pacific regio...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Poised to Accept New F-35s Without Radars, Sources Say
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Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, told Breaking Defense the more powerful APG-85 is planned to offer several upgrade...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
The Iran War Could Sap American Military Power for YearsThe current pace of operations is likely to produce occasional “carrier gaps”—when America cannot deploy a carrier in some parts of the world—for two or three years, says Stac...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Sons Are Behind a $750 Million Push Into Drone Warfare
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A fund that counts President Donald Trump’s eldest sons as partners invested in a pair of small companies last year: a construction firm that builds Orange Theory Fitness loca...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
Iran War Tactics Evolve from past Conflict’s LessonsAfter more than a week of strikes, the US and Israel appear to be dismantling Iran’s military machine with startling speed. They’ve hit thousands of targets across the country...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
Middle East War Could Be Decided by Who Runs Out of Missiles or Interceptors First, Analysts SayThe outcome and duration of the war in the Middle East may be decided by a grim calculus based on the size of Iran’s drone and missile stocks v vital air defence munitions hel...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
How Tanking, Airlift Could Be Strained by Iran OpsAs US armed forces grind through combat in Iran, some officials have raised concerns about America’s munitions stockpile. But experts warn that a perhaps less obvious constrai...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing FounderWithin minutes of arriving at a security conference with U.S. defense and intelligence officials in December, Palmer Luckey was stopped by a military officer who wanted to tal...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
Defensive Munition Shortages to Shape Attack on IranLimited supplies of critical defensive munitions to protect US forces and allies from Tehran’s missiles are likely to shape the military offensive against Iran, according to o...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Does the U.S. Have Enough Aircraft Carriers for All Trump’s Wars?
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As his latest threats to Iran suggest, President Donald Trump has become increasingly comfortable deploying military force around the world. But even with a military as large ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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As Dems Push for Briefing on El Paso Incident, Experts Warn It Could Be the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’
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“I think coordination has been lacking, and you're seeing a lot more sort of cowboy behavior, which could be problematic,” Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of th...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
