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Armed with a Heavyweight Torpedo Made to ‘Break Ships in Half,’ Taiwan’s First Homemade Submarine Will Represent a New Threat to China’s Navy
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"The inclusion of the Mk-48 is a significant upgrade" for Taiwan, Tom Shugart, a former US Navy submarine commander who's now an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New ...
By Tom Shugart
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Did the Chinese Submarine Accident Happen?
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The media reports left submarine experts and military observers perplexed. “I’ve never heard of submarine nets being used on the high seas, and I don’t understand why snaggin...
By Tom Shugart
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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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How Taiwan's new subs could complicate a Chinese invasion
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“Submarine building is one of the most challenging defense articles for any nation to build. And certainly, to build submarines that are quiet and capable, is something that o...
By Tom Shugart
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Taiwan Unveils Homemade Submarine as It Seeks to Counter China Threat
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Submarines are what military analysts describe as a sea denial weapon because of their ability to play a role in deterring ships, in this case from coming close to the island....
By Tom Shugart
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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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The US Military’s Grave New Frontier: Training for Conflict—Theoretically—With Another Superpower
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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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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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New CNAS Report: Campaign of Denial: Strengthening Simultaneous Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific and Europe”
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Washington, August 22, 2023 —Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, “Campaign of Denial: Strengthening Simultaneous Deterrence in the Indo...
By Becca Wasser
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‘We do not assess that the conflict is a stalemate’
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Sullivan’s take comes at a good time for Kyiv. Ukrainian forces today said they took Robotyne, moving them closer to Melitopol, the city Kyiv’s troops need to capture to cut o...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Ukraine running out of options to retake significant territory
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“The question here is which of the two sides is going to be worn out sooner,” said Franz-Stefan Gady, a senior fellow with the International Institute for Strategic Studies an...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Ukraine is Losing US Weapons on the Battlefield
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“There was a sense of ‘tech optimism,’ just because Ukrainian soldiers were so good at training on western equipment, and there was a sense they’d be able to translate that in...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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4 US Navy Destroyers Respond to Russian and Chinese Ships near Alaska
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While last week’s patrol may have included more Chinese and Russian ships than past combined formations that have sailed off Alaska, it is still unclear whether the two navies...
By Tom Shugart
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Inside the fight over alternative sub fuel
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That “performance trade-off” is why the U.S. Navy is not keen on low-enriched uranium. It’s an “inferior type of fuel” that means “basically less gas in the tank,” said Tom Sh...
By Tom Shugart
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Military briefing: the mines stalling Ukraine’s advance
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“The mines are channelling the Ukrainian efforts, and they are severely limiting the Ukrainians’ manoeuvre space, which is usually not a great thing when . . . you are attacki...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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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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A Sobering Analysis Of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive From The Front
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Franz-Stefan Gady, a senior fellow with the Institute for International Strategic Studies and the Center for New American Security, says after his visit to Ukraine it's clear ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Speedy expansion of Ream naval base includes pier that can accommodate warships
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Compared to December last year, the base now has “several sets of sizable buildings including, possibly, administrative offices and barracks” at the center, according to Tom S...
By Tom Shugart
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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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New CNAS Report: “‘Production Is Deterrence:’ Investing in Precision-Guided Weapons to Meet Peer Challengers”
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Washington, June 28, 2023 — Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, “‘Production Is Deterrence:’ Investing in Precision-Guided Weapons to M...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Hannah Dennis
