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Chinese Strategists Evaluate the Use of 'Kamikaze' Drones in the Russia-Ukraine War
Chinese strategists are watching drone and loitering munition use closely in the Ukraine War, suggesting that they are likely already considering how to refine offensive tactics and improve defensive countermeasures. They are clearly thinking about this question in the context of a Taiwan scenario.
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Nov 7, 2023
The Diplomat
Lyle Goldstein, Nathan Waechter

Threat Assessment

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UFOs Are Not the Only Potential Threat in American Skies
How can the United States best monitor its millions of square miles of domestic airspace for unidentified anomalous phenomena—what were once called UFOs—or anything else? Public reporting could help officials identify potential threats—but it'd help if the sightings being reported were actually unknown aerial phenomena and not U.S. military aircraft.
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Jul 25, 2023
The Hill
Marek N. Posard @mnposard, Ashley Gromis, et al.
Global Security

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Is the Warning Clock on Our National Defense Running Out?
The United States has never invoked a ten-year rule regarding preparations for long-term military competition with China, as Great Britain did after World War I. But there have been times when the United States has behaved as if such a rule were in place.
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Jul 10, 2023
RealClearDefense
Andrew R. Hoehn @AndyHoehn, Thom Shanker
Military Drones

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Can Cheap Drones Be the Answer to Tensions in the Taiwan Strait?
The more we learn about the war in Ukraine, the more we come to know that drones will play an increasingly important role on the modern battlefield. But how is the U.S. military thinking about what role these aircraft might play in future wars? When paired with modern sensors, could they offer an asymmetric advantage in future competitions?
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Jun 29, 2023
Defense News
Andrew R. Hoehn @AndyHoehn, Thom Shanker
Military Strategy

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'Wonder Weapons' Will Not Win Russia's War
With its army increasingly in shambles, Russia has turned to attacking Ukraine's civilian infrastructure with Iranian-made drones in an effort to destroy Ukrainians' will to fight. These tactics will inflict pain on the Ukrainian population, but if history is any guide, they will not forestall a Russian defeat.
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Nov 10, 2022
Defense One
Raphael S. Cohen, Gian Gentile
Air Defense

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Drone-Era Warfare Shows the Operational Limits of Air Defense Systems
External powers have intervened in the civil wars in Libya and Syria, supplying advanced conventional weapons that have intensified the conflicts. But not all of the weapons have performed as claimed.
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Jul 2, 2020
RealClearDefense
John V. Parachini @JohnParachini, Peter A. Wilson
Terrorism Threat Assessment

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Approaching a 'New Normal': What the Drone Attack in Venezuela Portends
The attempt to assassinate Venezuelan President Maduro showed that drones are easy to use and difficult to defend against. Commercial off-the-shelf technology is easy to acquire. It is imperative that counterterrorism specialists begin planning a robust response to the threat.
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Aug 13, 2018
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Colin P. Clarke

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

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Military Drones

Chinese Strategists Evaluate the Use of 'Kamikaze' Drones in the Russia-Ukraine War

UFOs Are Not the Only Potential Threat in American Skies

Is the Warning Clock on Our National Defense Running Out?

Can Cheap Drones Be the Answer to Tensions in the Taiwan Strait?

'Wonder Weapons' Will Not Win Russia's War

Drone-Era Warfare Shows the Operational Limits of Air Defense Systems

Approaching a 'New Normal': What the Drone Attack in Venezuela Portends

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