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Russia’s Make-or-Break Gambit in the Donbas
In The News
Having failed to achieve their initial goal of a lightning campaign to seize the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Russian forces are focusing their efforts on the Donbas region in t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian Scientists Say They Have A New System to Monitor Attacks on the Russian Internet
In The News
As Russia rains artillery fire down on Ukrainian cities, cyber attackers from around the world have been targeting Russian media, cryptocurrency services, and retail brands wi...
By Samuel Bendett
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In Ukraine, civilians shape narrative of the war
In The News
The images stream by like a dystopian slide show: Ukrainian farmers pulling abandoned Russian tanks from black soil. Bodies and buildings shredded in airstrikes. A young woman...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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The smartphone war: Soldiers, civilians and satellites give the world a window onto Russian invasion
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A month and a half into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we’ve become so used to the steady stream of videos and images coming from the front lines that it's easy to forget it's ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Chechen Wars Offer a Glimpse of Putin’s Next Move
When I see images of Mariupol’s devastation, watch footage of burnt-out Russian tanks or hear the increasingly frequent Ukrainian accounts of kidnappings and disappearances, a...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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How drones are helping fuel propaganda in Ukraine
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“[The] Russians are carefully releasing videos of Forpost-R and Orion combat drones as well to try and compete with a Bayraktar narrative,” said Samuel Bendett, an analyst at ...
By Samuel Bendett
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What the city of Mariupol means for Ukraine — and for Russia's military campaign
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The southeast Ukraine city of Mariupol has been battered by Russian airstrikes in recent weeks. Among the buildings hit have been a maternity hospital, a theater and an arts s...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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How access to satellite images shifts the view of war
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Rita Konaev, associate director of analysis at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, says satellite imagery "has been an aspect of modern confli...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Ukraine has destroyed nearly 10% of Russia's tanks, making experts ask: Are tanks over?
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This vanguard role, held then by foot soldiers and now by tanks, will likely shift to drones, robotic vehicles, and long-range strike systems. "Tanks are going to move, over ...
By Paul Scharre
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Putin could launch AI attack on UK if he feels threatened in Ukraine war, expert warns
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Samuel Bendett, an expert on Russia's AI and military, told Express.co.uk: "Russia’s most successful use of AI appears to be in information and cyber warfare, and that may imp...
By Samuel Bendett
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Eyeing China, US Business Community Waits for Washington to Make Next Move
In the current climate, businesses would be wise to rethink their China strategy, said Martijn Rasser, a former senior intelligence officer at the U.S. Central Intelligence Ag...
By Martijn Rasser
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Over Ukraine, Lumbering Turkish-Made Drones Are an Ominous Sign for Russia
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“It is so perplexing, and no one is quite sure what went wrong,” said Samuel Bendett, an expert on the Russian military at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington...
By Samuel Bendett & Michael Kofman
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The U.S. can’t stop Poland from giving Ukraine its MiGs
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The fact that small Russian units have been so regularly ambushed in the early days of the war indicates they weren’t using small drones for surveillance and reconnaissance, i...
By Samuel Bendett
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Cyber Command chief tells Congress chip shortage has national security implications
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China’s increasing progress toward producing enough semiconductor chips domestically to avoid relying on foreign trade is a “very timely question” and one of “great concern fo...
By Martijn Rasser
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The Tangled Web We Wove Rebalancing America's Supply Chains
Press Release
Washington, March 10, 2022—The pendulum of globalization has swung too far. What the fallout of the ongoing pandemic makes clear is that decades of offshoring and cost-cutting...
By Megan Lamberth, Ryan Johnson, Martijn Rasser & Henry Wu
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Online Sleuths Are Using Face Recognition to ID Russian Soldiers
Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted a short video on Telegram, in which a cheery bearded soldier stood before a line of tanks clanking down a road under an overcast sky. I...
By Ryan Fedasiuk
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Russia’s AI industry faces collapse
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2017 proclamation that whichever country leads in artificial intelligence “will be the ruler of the world” may come back to haunt him. New t...
By Martijn Rasser
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Russia is deploying brutal siege tactics in Ukraine
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The Russian assault on Ukraine is ongoing, with Russian forces moving on major population centers including Mariupol in the southeast and the capital, Kyiv. As the war moves i...
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2021 Pitch Contest Winners Building the next generation of national security thinkers and leaders: Building the next generation of national security thinkers and leaders
Press Release
Washington, March 3, 2022—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is proud to publish policy insights from the winners of the 2021 Pitch competition. The Pitch began in ...
By Megan Lamberth
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Russia’s Way of Conducting Urban Warfare Bodes Ill for Kyiv
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The last time that Russian forces fought their way into Kyiv was the autumn of 1943, when the Red Army crossed the Dnieper river and seized the city from Nazi Germany. On Nove...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
