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Wartime Russian Civil-Military Relations

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This report examines Russian civil-military relations by focusing on tensions between Russian political and military elites that have arisen.

since the start of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. To do so, the report employs a conceptual framework that breaks out interrelated dimensions of control, authority, hierarchy, institutionalization ... barons,” the politically influential leaders of irregular armed groups with direct, patronage connections to regime decision-makers, has disrupted the standard hierarchy of decision-making and command ... level. Third, political-military instability (characterized by, for example, the threat of regime change, general/flag-level officer purges, and the use of reactive mechanisms to reestablish control

pla update: Issue 9, April 19, 2023

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PLA Update, Issue 9, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

university students for select command and technical officer billets. In mid-March, the PLA announced that it was directly commissioning about 3,500 soon-to-graduate students of civilian universities ... services seek to commission civilian university graduates for both command and technical billets. For example, the PLA Army stated that it mainly sought to recruit civilian university graduates in early ... . China Military Online reported that the JLSF held its annual command skills competition Jingwu Joint Logistic 2023 in central Guangdong Province on April 4. The competition reportedly involved

Role of Space in Russia Operations in Ukraine

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Analysis: Russian military space activities in Ukraine have played a critical enabling role for Russian forces, but Russia operates at a disadvantage in space.

of war, when both sides are likely to preempt with, in Russian parlance, an “information strike” to disable adversary command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance ...  the functioning of Russia’s orbital constellations. The main missions of space operations will be to destroy an enemy’s space infrastructure and to disrupt their command and control. Once the supremacy ... of the enemy control system by destroying the ground infrastructure supporting space forces’ actions and means. According to [Russian] military experts, this is one of the most vulnerable places

Renewal of Navys Riverine Capability A Preliminary Examination

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The Director of Deep Blue (OPNAV N3/5) asked the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) to help the Navy define the maritime domain in which riverine operations may take place, the potential missions and tasks appropriate for a riverine force, and the resource implications related to the Navy’s decision to establish a riverine capability. This report examines riverine history; defines the maritime domain as it applies to brown-water operations, identifies where riverine operations might occur; and identifies operational and functional tasks that might be employed by a riverine force. It also examines how well the U.S. Navy’s projected riverine capability fits across a range of military operations. We found that the U.S. Navy has a long and varied but episodic history of riverine operations, which are inherently joint and often combined. Ground and air combat units along with different types of naval units routinely work together. While riverine craft are usually the centerpiece of any riverine operation, they do not perform significant riverine missions by themselves. Riverine operations are also complex: they involve frequent close combat and the employment of combined arms.

, and multi-service integration may be needed. Sovereign nations can delay or deny access to U.S forces. Operating areas can have several units operating in them, blurring command and control lines and situational awareness. When operational areas grow in complexity, unity of effort can only be achieved through unity of command, well-defined objectives, and simplicity. After developing an analytical ... and be ready to support riverine operations in Iraq in March 2007. On 1 October 2005, the Navy stood up a Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC) with a prospec- tive riverine force as one of its

Forward from the Start

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Why was the Navy at the forefront of the far-forward attacks on alQaeda in Afghanistan and the move against Iraq, while willing to take a back seat to the Coast Guard at home? Why did the Navy respond to one of the worst failures in defense at home in the nation's history principally by striking farther forward than it ever had before? Current national policy and naval strategy provide much of the answer, of course. History, however, also provides some clues.

waterfront. Cutters took up stations at all the nation’s ports, and began to enforce new control measures, including keeping civilian vessels away from Navy ships. The Chief of Naval Operations poured ... patrol coastal (PC) warships chopped to Coast Guard operational control. And then it was over at home for most of the Navy. True, lots of small changes were made and continued to be made, largely ... of innovative joint harbor defense command posts were set up. The PCs stayed with the Coast Guard, and some in-port warships with air defense capabilities were given collateral assignments. Some new research

china ai and autonomy report: Issue 15, May 19, 2022

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The China AI and Autonomy Report, issue 15, is a biweekly newsletter published by CNA, on artificial intelligence and autonomy in China.

, leveraged “fully onboard” perception, planning, and control, using AI to process sensor inputs and produce optimized trajectory outputs within a few milliseconds when operating in “extremely” constrained ... =C52346.PkjaaUOixzFJ.EBK2gmakG12W.163. PLA NUDT researchers focused on AI-enabled intelligence synthesis for combat command systems enter research paper in prestigious international computing conference. The S&T Daily ... Engineering had their research paper on AI-enabled combat command systems development accepted by the 45th Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR

china ai and autonomy report: Issue 10, March 10, 2022

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The China AI and Autonomy Report, issue 10, is a biweekly newsletter published by CNA, on artificial intelligence and autonomy in China.

Operations,” which contrasts past forms of command and control with those of future intelligentized operations. According to the article, intelligentized operations will exhibit the following ... a broad battlefield space will be able to achieve demand-driven reorganization and cross-domain fusion. Human-machine integrated command and control.   A human commander will maintain control

CNA Welcomes Lieutenant General Dennis Crall, USMC (Ret.) To Board of Trustees

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Lieutenant General Dennis Crall, USMC (Ret.) joins the CNA Board of Trustees

served in multiple service and joint leadership roles. He brings to the table expertise in cybersecurity; artificial intelligence strategy; integration of command, control, communications, and computers ... CNA’s world-class team.”  LtGen Crall most recently served in the Pentagon as director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computers for the Joint Staff. Prior senior roles include Deputy ... Operational Art and Science from Air Command and Staff College and a Master of Science in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University

Russian Army Organization and Modernization

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In this CNA occasional paper, Aleksei Ramm, one of Russia’s leading military journalists, discusses the evolution and modernization of the Russian Army over the past decade. This report examines the major reforms that redefined the Army’s mission and capabilities, including the dramatic reconfiguration of the service’s organizational relationships and management system and the extensive modernization of weaponry, C4ISR, and other capabilities. The paper outlines the evolution of Russian Army military technology and the associated changes in how the ground forces execute their tactics, techniques, and procedures today. The report also discusses the implications of these changes for the future operational readiness of the Russian military.

and system of management, together with extensive modernization of capabilities, from weapons to command and control (C2). This process of reorganization, shaped heavily by the armed forces’ experience ... mission-tailored combat groupings to replace the traditional brigade‐division‐field army hierarchy. This new structure emphasizes the integration of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) and automated C3-C4IS (Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, and Satellites) in its structure and working relationships. The latter, C3-C4IS, is an essential battlefield and theatre command component. Moreover

ai with ai: AI with AI: Curiosity Killed the Poison Frog, Part II

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Andy and Dave briefly discuss the results from the Group of Governmental Experts meetings on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in Geneva; the Pentagon releases it's Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap 2017-2042; Google announces Dataset Search, a curated pool of datasets available on the internet; California endorses a set of 23 AI Principles in conjunction with the Future of Life, and registration for the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2018 conference sells out in just under 12 minutes. Researchers at DeepMind announce a Symbol-Concept Association Network (SCAN), for learning abstractions in the visual domain in a way that mimics human vision and word acquisition. DeepMind also presents an approach to "catastrophic forgetting," using a Variational Autoencoder with Shared Embeddings (VASE) method to learn new information while protecting previously learned representations. Researchers from the University of Maryland and Cornell demonstrate the ability to poison the training data set of a neural net image classifier with innocuous poison images. Research from the University of South Australia and Flinders University attempts to link personality with eye movements. OpeanAI, Berkley and Edinburgh research looks at curiosity-driven learning across 54 benchmark environments (including video games and physics engine simulations, showing that agents learn to play many Atari games without using any rewards, rally-making behavior emerging in two-player Pong, and others. Finally, Andy shares an interactive app that allows users to “play” with a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) in a browser; “Franken-algorithms” by Andrew Smith is the paper of the week; “Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car” by Burns and Shulgan is the book of the week; and for the videos of the week, Major Voke offers thoughts on AI in the Command and Control of Airpower, and Jonathan Nolan releases “Do You Trust This Computer?”

; and for the videos of the week, Major Voke offers thoughts on AI in the Command and Control of Airpower, and Jonathan Nolan releases “Do You Trust This Computer?” /images/AI-Posters/AI_1_47.jpg AI ... to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World , by Lawrence Burns and Christopher Shulgan Videos of the Week Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Command and Control (C2