In The News
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U.S. Gunship Sank a Fishing Vessel in the Pacific. The Target Was No Ordinary Boat.Popular Mechanics | 08 May 2024
According to the Center for Naval Analyses, the ships also receive training in direct action missions, including "anti-air missile defense, light weapons use, and sabotage operations." All of this makes them a deniable asset for the Chinese government.
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How DC became obsessed with a potential 2027 Chinese invasion of TaiwanDefense News | 07 May 2024
David Finkelstein, who studies the Chinese military at the Center for Naval Analyses, said "China will not renounce the use of force as a possibility around Taiwan. So the military option hangs over the Taiwan Strait like Damocles’ sword.”
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What’s Happening in Space Policy May 5-11, 2024Space Policy Online | 05 May 2024
A panel on “When Will China Send Humans to the Moon and Mars” features Kevin Pollpeter from the Center for Naval Analyses.
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Drones Changed This Civil War, and Linked Rebels to the WorldNew York Times | 04 May 2024
Samuel Bendett said, “It’s exponential growth, and it’s taking place everywhere.”
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Harried By 100,000 Ukrainian Drones A Month, Russian Troops Learn To Dodge—And Beg For ShotgunsForbes | 03 May 2024
Samuel Bendett said, "Once an FPV explodes in near proximity, it can still injure and maim even if the initial drone strike misses."
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Naval Interoperability and NATO’s Naval Presence: Lessons from the Red SeaCIMSEC Blog | 01 May 2024
Joshua Tallis has argued, “In this time of high tension, very few combatants are attached to the alliance’s two major standing naval groups.”
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Ukraine Bets on Long-Range Drones as It Seeks a Battlefield EdgeWall Street Journal | 29 Apr 2024
Samuel Bendett said, "What Ukraine needs to do is streamline production and select those drones that can be manufactured on a mass scale."
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Russia Deploying New AI-Powered Anti-Drone DevicesNewsweek | 29 Apr 2024
Samuel Bendett, in a report published in July 2023, said, "So far, Ukraine has managed to maintain a human-centric approach toward AI use, with operators making the final decisions."
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Law Enforcement Officers Face a 54 percent Higher Risk of Dying by Their Own HandsLaw Enforcement Today | 26 Apr 2024
In late 2023, the CNA Corporation (hereafter “CNA”) initiated a partnership with First H.E.L.P. to undertake the first comprehensive analysis of its extensive dataset on public safety personnel deaths by suicide. This brief presents an overview of previous research and data collection endeavors related to public safety personnel deaths by suicide.
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Could Emerging Technologies Have Helped to Avoid the Tragic Killing of Humanitarian Workers in Gaza?Modern War Institute at West Point | 25 Apr 2024
Larry Lewis and Daphné Richemond-Barak write, “CNA research has shown that artificial intelligence can reduce misidentification, avoid miscorrelation (for example, by recognizing that a swap has occurred between a threat vehicle and a civilian vehicle), and enhance the recognition of protected symbols.”
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Aurora police and fire embark on next phase of reform agreement: ‘Significant progress’Sentinel Colorado | 25 Apr 2024
Police officials and Schlanger have said the delay was the result of [Aurora Police Department] turning down a training offered by the federal Center for Naval Analyses to instead tailor a program specifically for Aurora officers that incorporated more scenario-based learning, which the department began offering in March.
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Why Is Russia Losing The FPV Drone War?Forbes | 24 Apr 2024
Samuel Bendett said, “Russian and Ukrainian commentators and bloggers note often that the adversary has more drones and can better operate them.”
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Lessons from Ukraine ConflictDefense & Aerospace Podcast | 24 Apr 2024
Sam Bendett discusses the importance of the $61 billion Ukraine supplemental.
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Global interest in Iranian drones unlikely to wane despite failed Israel attackBreaking Defense | 24 Apr 2024
Samuel Bendett said he assumed that countries interested in procuring Iranian drones are states across “Africa and the Middle East that don’t have a problem with Iranian politics and don’t have a lot of money to buy expensive drones.”
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New Ukrainian Silent Attack Drones Put Russians On The DefensiveNewsweek | 23 Apr 2024
Samuel Bendett said that Russia does not currently have an analogue to the Baba Yagas.
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Interview with Sebastian Bae Designer of Crisis in Korea from Catastrophe GamesThe Player's Aid | 22 Apr 2024
Sebastian Bae says, “The two games have different assumptions about the socio-political landscape in North Korea. KTO Crisis imagines a future where North Korea is aggressive, confident, and willing to start a conventional conflict to reunite the Peninsula.”