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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
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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
