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A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Does the Pentagon.
Warfare is changing at a pace unseen in almost a century, as fighting in Ukraine and the Middle East shows. For military commanders, tackling that upheaval demands fast and co...
By Becca Wasser
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Vietnam Builds Airstrip on Reclaimed Island in South China Sea
The latest satellite imagery has revealed a new airstrip taking shape on Barque Canada reef, an artificial island developed by Vietnam in the disputed Spratly archipelago in t...
By Tom Shugart
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Why the Pentagon is Betting Big on Long-Range Ukrainian Drones: ‘It Works’
“[The Ukrainians] have such a vibrant and diverse drone industry that’s doing really, really exciting things, and they’re doing them for really cheap,” Stacie Pettyjohn, direc...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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US Submarine Earns Highest Military Honor for Spying on America's Enemies
The USS Washington, a conventionally armed 7,900-ton Virginia-class fast-attack submarine, was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for "outstanding performance in action wh...
By Tom Shugart
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Pentagon Lacks Counter-Drone Procedure Leading to Incursions Like at Langley, Experts Say
New reporting about over a dozen unidentified drones that were allowed to fly over Langley Air Force Base has prompted fresh calls for change to a threat that experts say will...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Scatter and Survive: Inside a U.S. Military Shift to Deny China ‘Big, Juicy’ Targets
The remote Pacific airfield used to launch the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II is being revived with a different foe in mind: China. Runways emerging from the enc...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Russia’s Illicit Starlink Terminals Help Power Its Advance in Ukraine
Before Starlink revolutionized the market, previous generations of field satellite terminals suffered from low speeds and high prices. Now users can buy terminals for a few hu...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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China Is Menacing Taiwan with Drone Swarms and US Is Playing Catch-Up
"The military and commercial drone industrial base in both nations is quite weak," said Stacie Pettyjohn, an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, of Taiwan and t...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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After Key Town Falls in Ukraine’s East, Russian Forces Push Into Another
A week after Russia captured Vuhledar, a town that anchored Ukraine’s defenses in the country’s southeast, Moscow’s forces are continuing to advance in the area, pushing into ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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America’s Greatest Adversary? Kamala Harris Says Iran Is ‘An Obvious’ Answer
WASHINGTON — Though the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community have long identified China as America’s number one geopolitical challenge, when Democratic presidenti...
By Becca Wasser
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Iran’s Massive Missile Strike on Israel Is Just a Fraction of What China Could Do
The differences between Iran's attack and a potential Chinese missile strike are probably best understood in terms of scale, sophistication, and intent. A Chinese missile stri...
By Tom Shugart
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China nuclear sub sank in its dock, US officials say
Thomas Shugart, a former US Navy submariner and an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, first noticed the incident involving the submarine in July. He told the B...
By Tom Shugart
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Top Former Defense Officials Release New Report on Accelerating DoD Innovation
Washington, September 25, 2024 – Today, the Center for a New American Security released a new report, Integration for Innovation: A Report of the CNAS Defense Technology Task ...
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U.S. Tackles a Military Vulnerability in the Pacific: Supply Lines
America is rethinking its logistics in the vast region, with training involving giant fuel bladders in the Australian Outback...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Russia will be ‘at war’ with NATO if Ukraine long-range missile restrictions lifted, Putin warns
A group of key House Republicans also wrote to the president this week ahead of Blinken’s Ukraine trip, echoing appeals from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to lift the...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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CNAS Releases Open Source Dataset on Drone Proliferation
Washington, September 10, 2024 – Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released the Drone Proliferation Dataset by Molly Campbell. As drones become an increasin...
By Molly Campbell
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What the "rocket drone" Palianytsia means for Ukraine
I don't think this is a game-changing capability," Stacie Pettyjohn, the defense program director at the Center for a New American Security, told me. But if "Ukraine can acqui...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The Pentagon Is Planning a Drone ‘Hellscape’ to Defend Taiwan
“China has essentially copied all of the large and medium high-altitude drones the US has and produced what amount to cheaper versions of the MQ-9 Reaper or the [RQ-4] Global ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Why China’s and Russia’s Militaries Are Training Together
China and Russia have pressed an informal political and economic alliance against the West. Now they are stepping up the cooperation between their militaries with increasingly...
By Becca Wasser
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America’s Middle East Defense Rests on Aircraft Carriers
With the United States and Israel expecting a military response any minute now from Iran or its proxies for the recent deaths of Hamas’s political leader and Hezbollah’s secon...
By Becca Wasser