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The US Can’t Let China Dominate the Small-Drone Market
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Russia’s war on Ukraine is a wake-up call on the dangers of letting an unfriendly nation dominate the drone market. Both sides are deploying thousands of Chinese drones, said ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Preparing for a China war, the Marines are retooling how they’ll fight
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Though NMESIS vehicles radiate heat, and radar emits signals that can be detected, the Marines try to lower their profile by spacing out the vehicles, camouflaging them and mo...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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What the Pentagon has learned from two years of war in Ukraine
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The Ukraine conflict has challenged core assumptions. The war has become an attritional slugfest with each side attempting to wear down the other, a model thought to be anachr...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The revolution that wasn’t: How AI drones have fizzled in Ukraine (so far)
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In early February, a detailed report from the Center for a New American Security dismissed the AI drones in a few lines. “The Lancet-3 was advertised as having autonomous targ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Samuel Bendett
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Does the US Army’s future lie in Europe or Asia?
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What remains unsettled, says Billy Fabian, a former infantry officer and Pentagon planner, is how, precisely, the army’s combat forces should be organised for future wars: the...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Billy Fabian
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The world is watching the war in Ukraine through drones, and it twists the view of who is winning this fight
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So it goes in the ongoing drone war — no soldier or vehicle is safe from these weapons. And nearly two years after Russia's full-scale invasion, the world is, more often than ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Why is Israel using so many dumb bombs in Gaza?
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A report published last year by Operation Inherent Resolve, the American-led coalition against Islamic State (is), which has been bombing Iraq and Syria for almost a decade, m...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Chinese fighter jets buzz U.S. planes in dramatic new videos
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In the past two years, Washington has elevated to the leader level the “Quad” security partnership with Australia, Japan and India, widely seen as a counterweight to Beijing. ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In Israel and Ukraine, Mix of Drones and Brute Force Shows Warfare’s Future
“It’s a constant competition between measures and countermeasures,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security. U.S. for...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Samuel Bendett
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A new school will train U.S. troops to fight a growing threat: small weaponized drones
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“You're seeing drones used on a scale that’s never been seen before,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, the director of the defense program at the Center for New American Security. So ma...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare
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At the moment, Ukraine’s small aerial drones have limited range and power, and most of them are either made in China or use Chinese components. By contrast, American-made surv...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Elon Musk’s Control of Starlink Gives Him Unchecked Power over Elected Governments
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"This is one of the challenges of relying on a commercial service that has its own interest in ensuring that it remains out of the crosshairs," Stacie Pettyjohn, director of t...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Munitions put into focus as stockpiles dwindle
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“The defence industry is so consolidated that it can’t very quickly expand to support a greater demand,” warns Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defence programme at the Cente...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Hannah Dennis
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The West Again Learns That War Needs Industry
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Agility is increasingly vital in manufacturing, too. The F-35, America’s newest jet fighter, is a marvel of networked computers that can hover and fly supersonic. But much of ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Marines want to use Tomahawks to sink enemy ships from 1,000 miles away
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If the Marines had Maritime Strike Tomahawks, they would be able to sink Chinese ships from bases much further away from Taiwan, said Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Lawmakers will (literally) game out a Chinese attack on Taiwan
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Under the watchful eye of “game-master” Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the CNAS defense program, the lawmakers will play advisers to the president, a.k.a. the Blue Team.Becca W...
By Becca Wasser, Stacie Pettyjohn & Andrew Metrick
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The Existential Threat to Aukus: Choking on US Red Tape
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“It’s bureaucracy and different bureaucracies and multiple ones,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and defence programme director at the Centre for a New American Securi...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Lockheed Martin Looks to Boost LRASM Production as US Rushes to Buy Anti-Ship Weapons
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“I think one of the most glaring gaps in our portfolio is anti-ship weapons, especially air-launched ones, and LRASMs are particularly important since it gives you the ability...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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NATO is Racing to Arm its Russian Borders. Can it Find the Weapons?
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With countries already worried about their own munitions stockpiles and Ukraine in acute need of more shells and weapons from allies, there is a risk that not all NATO allies ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Jim Townsend
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At a Steam-Age Arsenal, U.S. Army Forges Cannons for a Digital Era, War in Ukraine
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Watervliet holds special status as a rare Army-operated industrial manufacturing facility, but that hasn’t always translated to funding. For years after the Cold War, the indu...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
