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Peacetime Influence

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This paper discusses the importance of peacetime operations. Without a more systematic understanding of such operations and the influence they bring, Americans cannot make intelligent decisions about the use of the Navy in specific situations, about strategy, or even about force structure. We need to understand the environment in which the United States is attempting to exert influence and the broad peacetime roles of the military in that environment. We need to understand whom we are trying to influence and to do what. Only then can we consider the implications for the Navy.

in which the United States is attempting to exert influence and the broad peacetime roles of the military in that environment. We need to understand whom we are trying to influence and to do what ... important vehicles of peacetime influence, this knowledge has played only a secondary role in recent naval thinking and planning. For example, until recently, the formal structure of the Navy's new Joint ... ­ time presence, the profession as a whole does not value presence as an important military task, demanding the same expertise and careful study as strike warfare or antiair warfare. The Navy's failure

The Mayaguez Operation

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This 180-page, independent analysis of the Mayaguez Incident finds Marine units were responsive, but suffered failures in tactics, intelligence, and command.

, of the Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific. Its purpose is to: Document the U. S. military operations related to recovery of the Mayaguez and her crew. Analyze the military operations ... Reports. Following the reconstruction of the events, these phases of the operation were analyzed: Response, Planning, Command and Control, Communications, Helicopter vulnerability

Marine Mammals and the Navy: A Deep Dive into Data

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Navy impacts on whales and marine mammals are the subject of more than 20 CNA research projects, examining correlations between sonar activity and strandings.

of military activity, there was a high probability of finding at most a single mass stranding during all of those sonar periods combined. To find more than two strandings would be highly unlikely. But beaked ... . The Navy not only accepted the findings — and used them with the intention of planning safer exercises — they gave Filadelfo permission to take the results public. He published the study in the journal ... find German U-boats in World War II. "In this work I've gone back to perhaps the most famous CNA report of all, ‘Search and Screening,’" says Filadelfo. "It's one of the bibles of military operations

china ai and autonomy report: Issue 18, June 30, 2022

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The China AI and Autonomy Report, issue 18, is a biweekly newsletter published by CNA, on artificial intelligence and autonomy in China.

technologies, and AI. According to the article, "new platforms and weapons such as unmanned submersibles, undersea prepositioned weapons, and foreign military bases will bring about the reconfiguration ... technologies because of their low cost and operational flexibility. In swarm operations, individual systems will be able to carry out mission planning and operations independently with the loss of any one ... conducted the first autonomous sea trial for the mainland's largest unmanned vessel, according to CCTV-7, China's official television station for military affairs. The CCTV-7 report stated

china ai and autonomy report: Issue 13, April 21, 2022

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The China AI and Autonomy Report, issue 13, is a biweekly newsletter published by CNA, on artificial intelligence and autonomy in China.

learning. Also of note, this month another of China's "AI dragons," the facial recognition giant CloudWalk Technologies, announced plans to go public. Intelligent Military Command Systems ... , sound strategic and tactical design, thorough planning, efficient control, and flexible response) is a better criterion for evaluating intelligent command systems. In this respect, the authors argue ... to the battlefield situation. To conduct these assessments, the authors argue that an effective evaluation team must be composed of functional experts who can evaluate military decision-making

CNA Welcomes Retired Vice Admiral William Merz to Board of Trustees

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Retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William Merz joined the CNA Board of Trustees.

Admiral William Merz joined the CNA Board of Trustees. Vice Adm. Merz is a 36-year decorated veteran and brings to CNA deep experience in national planning and operations, nuclear energy, strategy ... . "It is an honor to join the distinguished ranks of the CNA Board of Trustees," said Vice Adm. Merz. "CNA is an essential partner to the military in addressing our nation's security issues. I plan to implement my longstanding military career motto of playing hard into my work with CNA." Vice Adm. Merz is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, earning a Bachelor of Science in ocean engineering. He

New Report: A New Framework for Managing Nuclear Escalation

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With less than six months left until the New START arms control treaty expires, the climate of cooperative nuclear risk reduction continues to sour.

a framework for assessing and developing courses of action during war planning. This provides leaders with more effective pre-planned strategic and operational military options that have been thoroughly ... . In this study, we sought to take that a step further and design a framework that U.S. policymakers and planners can use to prepare military options that mitigate the risk of nuclear escalation

Camoland Clothing and Textile Industrial Base Wargame

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This report documents a wargame designed to assess the clothing and textile defense industrial base to support wartime demand for items during concurrent contingencies.

to engage with and understand the challenges that the C&T IB faces during a full-scale mobilization of the US military. The wargame scenario explored overlapping contingency operations in the High ... demand. This would have resulted in military personnel lacking uniforms and the corresponding environmental or physical protection . In large-scale contingencies, everything becomes a bottleneck ... that helped one company type often did not make sense for another. Policies supporting the IB must align with specific company needs. Delays between policy or planning and their implementation

US NATO Russian Strategic Stability in Ukraine

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, nuclear threats, and vague red lines risks a security dilemma with US/NATO—affecting vertical escalation and arms race stability.

nuclear arms control agreements may become more tenuous. Background On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine, following more than eight years ... on Ukraine’s border, and repeated denials that it was planning to invade its neighbor, Putin ordered the Russian invasion in order to “protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing ... path” to resolving Moscow’s security concerns. However, Putin did not opt for this approach. In the February 24 speech in which he announced the “special military operation,” Putin said in reference

Dimensions of Autonomous Decision Making

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We identify the dimensions of autonomous decision-making—the potential risk that one should consider before transferring decision-making to an intelligent autonomous system.

designed for use within the defense acquisition system and the military planning process, they provide a first step in transforming the policies and ethics principles regarding autonomous systems ... obligations. The risk elements can also be used by military commanders as a (measurable and testable) pre-operational risk assessment “checklist” to ensure that autonomous systems are not used in an unethical