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ai and autonomy in russia: Issue 37, May 2, 2022

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their coordinates to the Russian MRLS and artillery units, which delivered the final strike that supposedly destroyed the rest of this force. This tactic and concept of operations that utilizes UAVs as “eyes ... situation with the help of special radars that form an image of the sea surface. Based on the information received, artificial intelligence will predict the ice situation and automatically build the best route. The information will be transmitted to the captain of the ship or broadcast to the headquarters of marine operations on the NSR. There are no such civil unmanned carrier-based radar systems

pla update: Issue 1, February 4, 2022

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PLA Update, Issue 1, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

guided-missile frigates in nearby waters, helicopter flight training in the airspace of Hong Kong, and drills involving the garrison’s armored units, special operations troops, signal corps, and medical units ...   across the country to hold special political work sessions to explain the results of the plenum and its implications for the military. The sessions aimed to reaffirm the military’s loyalty to the Party ... for PLA units, called upon the military to remain loyal to the CCP and Xi, continuing to implement Xi’s reform policies. Major operations, activities, and exercises PLA initiates 2022 training

Preparing for Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response in Large-Scale Combat Operations

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Civilian harm mitigation and response requires a comprehensive approach. This report makes recommendations for mitigation, response, learning, analysis, and reporting.

.” As the US considers how best to prepare for a large-scale combat operation (LSCO) against peer adversaries, the Office of Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict in the Office of the Secretary ... Preparing for Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response in Large-Scale Combat Operations Preparing for Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response in Large-Scale Combat Operations Civilian harm mitigation ... the lives of civilians on the battlefield through a combination of compliance with international law and practical steps in planning and operations. However, in the past 20 years, the US and its allies have

ai with ai: AI with AI: Montezuma’s Regulation

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This week, Andy and Dave discuss the US Department of Commerce’s announcement to consider regulating AI as an export; counter to that idea, Amazon makes freely available 45+ hours of training materials on machine learning, with tailored learning paths; Oren Etzioni proposes ideas for broader regulation of AI research, that attempts to balance the benefits with the potential harms; DARPA tests its CODE program for autonomous drone operations in the presence of GPS and communications jamming; a Chinese researcher announces the use of CRISPR to produce the first gene-edited babies; and the 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize goes to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab for achieving the first exa-scale (10^18) application, running on over 27,000 NVIDIA GPUs. Uber’s OpenAI announces advances in exploration and curiosity of an algorithm that help it “win” Montezuma’s Revenge. Research from Facebook AI suggests that pre-training convolutional neural nets may provide fewer benefits over random initialization than previously thought. Google Brain examines how well ImageNet architectures transfer to other tasks. A paper from INDOPACOM describes the exploitation of big data for special operations forces. And Yuxi Li publishes a technical paper on deep reinforcement learning. And a recent paper explores self-organized criticality as a fundamental property of neural systems. Christopher Bishop’s Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning are available online, and the Architects of Intelligence provides one-on-one conversations with 23 AI researchers. Maxim Pozdorovkin releases “The Truth About Killer Robots” on HBO, and finally, a Financial Times article over-hypes (anti-hypes?) a questionable graph on Chinese AI investments.

initialization than previously thought. Google Brain examines how well ImageNet architectures transfer to other tasks. A paper from INDOPACOM describes the exploitation of big data for special operations ... Do Better ImageNet Models Transfer Better? Things of the Week Report of the Week   -   Exploitation of Big Data for Special Operations Forces Technical Paper of the Week -   Deep ... its CODE program for autonomous drone operations in the presence of GPS and communications jamming; a Chinese researcher announces the use of CRISPR to produce the first gene-edited babies

The Navy At A Tipping Point

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For the past 60 years, since roughly the outbreak of the Korean War and the U.S. response to that war, the Navy has had a consistent strategy for the structure, deployment, and posturing of the fleet. American maritime dominance has been based on forces that were deployed forward and always ready to respond quickly to emerging situations in areas of vital interest to American foreign policy. Because of the perceived need to be able to respond at the highest levels of warfare throughout the Cold War, those forces were built, trained, and equipped to be “combat credible” against capable challengers. “Combat credible” meant the ability to project power against advanced air defenses, conduct and enable littoral/amphibious operations in opposed environments, and establish blue-water dominance against highly capable surface, sub-surface, and air threats.

, littoral combat, and special operational forces (SOF), and routinely had over 10,000 sailors ashore in CENTCOM to support operations there. If the Navy hoped that reductions in the demand signal would ... littoral/amphibious operations in opposed environments, and establish blue-water dominance against highly capable surface, sub-surface, and air threats. In the post-Cold War environment, and since 9/11, evidence illustrates that the demand signal for naval forces has not waned. In fact, the Navy continues to be tasked with a range of operations, from disaster response to peacetime engagement and shows

Training in the Russian Armed Forces

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Performance by Russian soldiers in Ukraine and other assessments show that reforms in Russian military training since 2009 have been only partly successful.

associated with the high turnover rates among enlisted personnel. Perhaps most importantly, Russian troops gained valuable combat experience during operations in the Donbas and Crimea (2014–2015) and in Syria ... , and an emphasis on simulation training as a low-cost substitute for field exercises. Russian forces performed well in Crimea and Syria, but those operations were limited in scope and had clearly defined and achievable objectives. The recent operations in Ukraine were larger in scope and required significant coordination between services across multiple fronts to achieve objectives

Russian Combat Air Strengths and Limitations

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Report explores Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) failure to win air dominance in Ukraine in 2022, why Russian air force results differed from Western expectations.

operations over Ukraine. For external analysts, areas of VKS weakness have generally been possible to infer from the absence of visible operations and destructive effects. Examples of visible weakness include the VKS’s inability to effectively conduct suppression and destruction of enemy air defense (SEAD/DEAD) operations, or to project fixed-wing or rotary strike sorties over most of Ukraine ... small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and handheld cameras have provided a rich, albeit fragmentary, source of information on the tactics and nature of operations being undertaken by both sides at each

Maritime Sabotage: Lessons Learned and Implications for Strategic Competition

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Warring sides have undertaken sabotage operations throughout history to generate battlefield effects, with varying degrees of success.

operations throughout history to generate battlefield effects, with varying degrees of success. Warring sides have undertaken sabotage operations throughout history to generate battlefield effects, with varying degrees of success. In many cases, the forces conducting these operations have been special operations forces (SOF), their predecessors, or intelligence agencies. During World War II ... heavily on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations, resulting in a current dearth of experience with sabotage against nation-state targets. In light of SOF’s history with sabotage and recent

Emerging Technologies and Civilian Harm Mitigation

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CNA analysis of military operations has shown that it is possible to simultaneously improve military effectiveness and lessen civilian harm.

Emerging Technologies and Civilian Harm Mitigation CNA analysis of military operations has shown that it is possible to simultaneously improve military effectiveness and lessen civilian harm ... by an increasing awareness of the importance of human security, including protecting civilians from harm in military operations. There are many practical reasons for militaries to mitigate harm ... to civilian harm. To this end, we analyzed over 2000 real-world instances of civilian harm occurring over the past 20 years of military operations. We determined that all civilian harm incidents share

pla update: Issue 14, September 28, 2023

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PLA Update, Issue 14, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

in Thailand, "special warfare" personnel from the Royal Thai Army and the PLA Army's 74th Group Army carried out Commando 2023 , an exercise focused on counterterrorism operations. Thai media separately reported this as a "special warfare" combined ground forces exercise called Joint Strike 2023. Starting on September 13 in Cambodia, servicemembers from an unspecified brigade of the PLA ... Theater Command is responsible for developing strategies and conducting operations in an area of responsibility that includes Taiwan and the East China Sea. Top left: a remote-controlled