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The US Military’s Grave New Frontier: Training for Conflict—Theoretically—With Another Superpower
After a recent trip to Washington, DC—to help military experts workshop peer-to-peer war—Austrian army officer Franz-Stefan Gady, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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US resumes some drone operations in Niger for force protection
Air Base 201 near Agadez has played a critical role in the U.S. military’s efforts to counter violent extremist groups in West Africa, Jocelyn Trainer, an expert on sub-Sahara...
By Jocelyn Trainer
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Russia-North Korea summit: "Comrades" Putin and Kim send rivals a warning
"Putin and Kim would both gain from a transactional bargain but they would also gain geopolitically by giving off the impression that their nuclear-armed countries are coopera...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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New CNAS Report: Strengthening the Shield: Japan’s Defense Transformation and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Washington, September 13, 2023 — Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, Strengthening the Shield: Japan’s Defense Transformation and the U...
By Jacob Stokes, Lisa Curtis, Joshua Fitt, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph I. Grimm & Rebecca Wittner
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Russia ramps up drone, guided bomb attacks to thwart counteroffensive
Russian state media has reported a ramp-up in production of Lancets, and at a cost estimated at $30,000 to $35,000, they are far cheaper than higher-end drones and missiles, s...
By Samuel Bendett
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Elon Musk’s Control of Starlink Gives Him Unchecked Power over Elected Governments
"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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‘Nothing left to lose’: Putin embraces role of spoiler with Kim Jong-un summit
But there is an obvious logic to the Kremlin courting North Korea. It has ammunition that Russia needs to continue its war with Ukraine, where the Kremlin has had to ration it...
By Mike Kofman
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CNAS Responds: 2023 G20 New Delhi Summit
As the 2023 G20 New Delhi Summit comes to a close, CNAS experts highlight key takeaways and analyze the implications for U.S. national security and global prosperity. All quot...
By Lisa Curtis, Jacob Stokes, Nicholas Lokker, Hannah Kelley & Sam Howell
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India’s Military Studying Options for Any China-Taiwan War
Even though India is examining military options, it remains unlikely that the nation would get involved directly in a war over Taiwan, according to Lisa Curtis, senior fellow ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Paul Scharre Named to TIME's Inaugural List of the TIME100/AI
Washington, September 7, 2023 — Today, TIME named Paul Scharre, Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), to the first...
By Paul Scharre
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Taliban Sell Afghanistan's Mines Despite Sanctions
“U.S. sanctions generally require U.S. persons and some foreign persons to comply,” said Alex Zerden, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “A foreign company co...
By Alex Zerden
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Defense firms research voice commands to speak with drones
“The ultimate goal right now, largely influenced by Ukraine, is to make the interactions between the operator and the drone as efficient as possible,” said Samuel Bendett, res...
By Samuel Bendett
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Meet NATO’s new China-focused intel chief
The intel position at NATO is generally an American job, partly because “we’re the ones that have most of the intel assets,” said JIM TOWNSEND, who spent years working on NATO...
By Jim Townsend
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Ukraine primes air defences for new Russian winter assault on power grid
Ukraine appears to have prepared well for more strikes by drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), but their gradually increasing numbers could pose a problem, said Samuel B...
By Samuel Bendett
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After death of Russia’s Wagner chief, what happens to his mercenary army?
“Parts may be folded in under the Ministry of Defense, Russian intelligence, or to other oligarchs and leaders found more compliant, but none of those assets will wither at th...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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War sanctions against Russia highlight growing divisions among the Group of 20 countries
“It's a combination of different factors that I think that makes it difficult for the G20 to work in concert in a way that they did in the past," said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunc...
By Rachel Ziemba
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'Unfair Burden': Tuberville Blockade on Promotions Is Stressing Military Families, 3 Service Secretaries Say
Katherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank who researches military culture and family issues, told Military.com in an interview ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Why Ukraine is able to embarrass Russia's air defense systems, among the most advanced in the world, with small drones
"Russia boasted of having layered defenses before the war, the sensor electronic warfare, different missile batteries, kinetic batteries, radars, that can sort of identify and...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russians Are Developing An Arsenal Of Deadlier FPV Drones — But Bureaucracy Is Holding Them Back
Samuel Bendett, an expert Russian drones and adviser to both the CNA and CNAS, told Forbes that at present Russian FPVs are mainly used by irregular units from the Russian-con...
By Samuel Bendett
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The US, Allies See Opportunity and Risk in China’s Slowing Economy
“The conventional wisdom seems to be flipping from a concern with the unstoppable rise of Chinese power to a worry about the irrevocable decline of China’s economy and populat...
By Richard Fontaine