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Record Number of Chinese Warships Operating in Cambodia
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Cambodia’s defense ministry has praised joint activities with China for enhancing its military’s capabilities as well as its combat skills. The Golden Dragon 2024 exercise is...
By Tom Shugart
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Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Northern Ukraine
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Part of the Russians’ plan with this overall attack, military analysts said, is to threaten Kharkiv and force Ukraine to divert troops from other battlefields, especially thos...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Here’s the Defense Tech at the Center of U.S. Aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
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For a closer look at the military technology at the center of the aid package, I spoke with Andrew Metrick, a fellow with the defense program at the Center for a New American ...
By Andrew Metrick
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Ukraine Is Finally Getting More US Aid. It Won’t Win the War — but It Can Save Them from Defeat.
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Franz-Stefan Gady, an analyst with the Center for a New American Security who recently returned from a study trip to the front lines in Ukraine, said the new aid package was l...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Ukraine Looks to Stop the Bleeding as U.S. Readies More Aid
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Becca Wasser, a senior fellow for the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, said the incoming aid package is significant but will not “magically solve all...
By Becca Wasser
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Trump Will See Nuclear Subs as a ‘Win-Win’, U.S. Foreign Policy Guru Predicts
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One of America’s leading foreign policy thinkers has played down fears that Donald Trump could discard the AUKUS pact or seek revenge against Australian ambassador Kevin Rudd ...
By Richard Fontaine
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The U.S. 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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Above the Arctic Circle, Infantry Marines Are Improvising to Battle Harsh Conditions as Part of NATO Force
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While the physical environment is not new, the geopolitical one is. Those changes center around Russia's invasion of Ukraine and have had deep effects on NATO's concern for de...
By Becca Wasser
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Pentagon’s Priority on AI Spending Could Shield It from Cuts
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Josh Wallin, a fellow in the Center for a New American Security’s defense program, predicted that DOD’s planned AI expenditures would be “relatively safe” in future budgets — ...
By Josh Wallin
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China's Coast Guard: The Tip of Xi's Spear
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"There are no easy answers [to gray zone warfare]. China has dedicated enormous resources to making itself into the world's premier maritime power by most measures," said Tom ...
By Tom Shugart
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NATO’s Military Has a New Nerve Center
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The plans could take years more to put in place. “We are talking decades—potentially plural,” said Becca Wasser, a senior fellow for the defense program at the Center for a Ne...
By Becca Wasser
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Will the U.S. Abandon Ukraine?
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For all its recent gains in Avdiivka, the Russian military is also an exhausted force—and one that is losing more tanks, howitzers and other military equipment to Ukrainian fo...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Are Ukraine’s Defenses Starting to Crumble?
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Avdiivka was “not a mere symbolic Russian victory,” said Franz-Stefan Gady, an Austrian military analyst with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), who travels regula...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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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 U.S. 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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China’s Shipyards Are Ready for a Protracted War. America’s Aren’t.
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“The scale [of China’s shipbuilding] is just almost hard to fathom,” said Thomas Shugart, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security whose research foc...
By Tom Shugart
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New CNAS Report: “Evolution Not Revolution: Drone Warfare in Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine”
Press Release
Washington, February 8, 2024 —Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, Evolution Not Revolution: Drone Warfare in Russia’s 2022 Invasion of ...
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How Cheap Drones Are Transforming Warfare in Ukraine
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The appeal of FPV drones is that they offer cheap, accurate firepower. Unguided artillery shells cost anywhere between $800 and $9,000. A GPS-guided shell is closer to $100,00...
By Franz-Stefan Gady & Samuel Bendett
