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Innovation Day

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CNA's Hunt Series: Wargames for Information Warfare Training Opportunities for US Special Operations in Countering Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing At Any Cost: An Illegal ... . ► Opportunities for US Special Operations in Countering Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Dr. Jonathan Schroden CNA characterized the nature and scope of illegal ... these approaches are aligned to the nature of the PRC's activities, and the degree to which US special operations forces might be able to contribute to the application of those tools

Charting the Course for Civil Affairs in the New Normal

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CNA has recently examined the state of the CA community in both the Navy and the Marine Corps. As we will see, the community has a very different trajectory in each of these services.

is the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM), and the Special Operations Forces (SOF) community maintains an important and highly developed civil affairs capability, which primarily resides within ... Corps. As we will see, the community has a very different trajectory in each of these services. Civil affairs (CA) and civil-military operations (CMO) have been an important area of United States military operations for much of the nation’s history. While the application and manifestation of CMO have changed over time, civil affairs personnel have always conducted activities aimed

ai and autonomy in russia: Issue 45, September 7, 2022

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technologies to support the development of  new weapons systems and special equipment, such as marine robotic complexes, including AI-enabled robotic systems, along with maritime UAVs. Other ... to the developers, this technology aims to reduce the human factor when performing manual operations, which should have a positive net impact on manufacturing quality. According to the article, the system aims ... control of all stages of manual operations. Earlier, we wrote about Russia’s use of AI technologies in military industrial processes and enterprises, a trend that is growing across the country’s

Jonathan Schroden

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President and Director of CNA's Strategy, Policy, Plans, and Programs Division, the Director of CNA’s Countering Threats and Challenges Program, and the Director of CNA’s Special Operations Program. He ... competition, irregular warfare, Marine Corps and special operations, force design, and strategic and operations assessment. In support of the Department of Defense, he deployed or traveled 13 times ... Assistance Force in Afghanistan. He also served as CNA’s first interim advisor to the Marine Corps Special Operations Command. In addition to his role at CNA, he is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow

pla update: Issue 15, October 23, 2023

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PLA Update, Issue 15, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

. PLA NAVY PLAN & Saudi Arabian Navy Conduct Counterterrorism Training Opening ceremony of Blue Sword 2023. Source: China Military Online . Naval special operations personnel from ... with an exercise featuring a scenario in which the special operations troops of the two navies would execute a combined rescue operation aboard hijacked merchant ships. PLAN and Saudi Arabian Navy ... Commanders The political commissar at the PLA National Defense University's Joint Operations College identified four areas for improvement in joint education and training. On September 26

Chinas Revolution in Doctrinal Affairs

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This paper raises a number of important questions on China's views on nuclear doctrine and nuclear operations that will have a direct bearing on the future of strategic stability in US-China relations.

carefully crafted and complex operations plans from the drawing boards to the various battle space dimensions and into contact with the enemy.  Of special note, we were especially fortunate ... Chinas Revolution in Doctrinal Affairs China's Revolution in Doctrinal Affairs This paper raises a number of important questions on China's views on nuclear doctrine and nuclear operations ... just a few. Of particular significance, the 1990s was also a decade of tremendous doctrinal ferment. Having just spent the decade of the 1980s refining its approaches to combined arms operations

ai with ai: The Unreasonable Perplexity of Fat Tails

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Andy and Dave discuss an announcement from Exscientia and Sumitomo that they have the first entirely-AI developed drug that is now entering clinical trials. The Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan has announced his retirement. Senator Michael Bennet sends a scathing letter to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer on its recent AI Principles for regulation. DARPA's Habitus program seeks to automate the process of revealing and using local information, to enhance stability operations in under-governed regions. And Washington state legislature has at least one facial recognition bill under consideration. Google Research announces its Meena chatbot, which claims is more Sensible and Specific (a new metric that it developed) than the award-winning Mitsuku, though requiring 30 days to compile on 2,048 tensor processing units. Researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of Florence announce a method for fusing deep learning with combinatorics solvers to create a neural network for combinatorial problems. RAND releases a report on Deterrence in the Age of Thinking Machines. Sejnowski pens thoughts on "the unreasonable effectiveness of deep learning in AI." Taleb takes a detailed look at the statistical consequences of fat tail distributions. Maj. Gen. Mick Ryan pens the final (?) part in his trilogy, AugoStrat Awakenings. Fortune publishes a special magazine on the topic of AI. And Andrew Ng and Geoffrey Hinton sit down for a 40-minute chat on deep learning.

. DARPA's Habitus program seeks to automate the process of revealing and using local information, to enhance stability operations in under-governed regions. And Washington state legislature has at least ... , AugoStrat Awakenings. Fortune publishes a special magazine on the topic of AI. And Andrew Ng and Geoffrey Hinton sit down for a 40-minute chat on deep learning. /images/AI-Posters/AI_3_15.jpg ...   Program: Enhancing Stability Operations in Under-governed Regions Proposer’s day information Washington state wants to regulate AI Research Towards a Human-like Open-Domain

CNA Director to Lead Research for Afghanistan War Commission

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Dr. Jonathan Schroden is departing CNA at the end of this month to serve as the research director for the Afghanistan War Commission.

CNA team since 2003. His research on irregular warfare, counterterrorism, and the challenges facing special operations forces has been invaluable to our national security." At CNA, Schroden served as the director of both the Countering Threats and Challenges Program and the Special Operations Research Program, where his work supported U.S. government efforts to better understand and counter state ... - West in Iraq, the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, and U.S. Marine Forces Special Operations Command. His notable projects include several independent assessments of Afghanistan's security forces

ai and autonomy in russia: Issue 41, June 27, 2022

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of such maritime drones can augment the Russian Navy’s capabilities by providing fire support for amphibious assault operations, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to detect and eliminate ... Russian drone operations is on the list of the American military aid to Ukraine. Kalashnikov manufactures two of Russia’s only loitering munitions, the KUB and Lancet models. Earlier in the war ... . The system has been under trial operation since 2021, but this will be the first time that autonomous navigation systems are used in commercial operations. New cell network built in Sverdlovsk planned

pla update: Issue 13, August 27, 2023

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PLA Update, Issue 13, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

and a shakeup in the PLA Rocket Force's (PLARF) top leadership. We next turn to recent activities of the PLA Navy (PLAN), including its operations and exercises with the Russian navy, a PLAN hospital ... Force, and Eastern Theater Command Navy. The crew are reportedly capable of performing examinations, treatments, and operations in areas including general surgery, orthopedics, obstetrics ... and media includes the reported numbers of patients seen and medical operations performed in each country, which are summarized in the table below: Country visited Dates Patients seen