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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
