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Are We Winning
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In more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States’ armed forces have encountered myriad challenges in their efforts to execute simultaneous counterinsurgency campaigns. Assessing progress on the ground—what we will refer to here as “operations assessment”—has proven an especially challenging task. For CNA analysts, as well as uniformed operations research and systems analysis (ORSA) personnel, the operations assessment process has grown in importance and consumed increasing analytic resources over the course of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). While there have been new and innovative approaches to operations assessment in recent years, there has also been a great deal of relearning old lessons from previous eras (under different conditions). This relearning is, at least in part, attributable to the lack of a comprehensive history of operations assessment.
Are We Winning Are We Winning? A Brief History of Military Operations Assessment In more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States’ armed forces have encountered myriad ... assessment. “Are we winning?” That simple question has proven decidedly difficult for the U.S. military to answer at various times in its history, and in recent decades has given rise to formal processes ... assessment, as has the broader military operations research community. Yet, to our knowledge, there is no comprehensive account of the history of operations assessment. This paper aims to serve
How Moscow Understands War
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In this CNA Occasional Paper, Andrew Monaghan examines Russian military strategy. Monaghan frames an analysis of Russian military strategy in terms of sustained Russian debate about the changing character of war, especially since the mid 2010s, and how this debate has recently turned to focus on military strategy in modern conditions. It makes several key arguments. First, history permeates the contemporary Russian debate, featuring both in the way that military experience is rendered into didactic lessons of history to advance military science, and in the arc of the theoretical development of Russian military strategy—it is not possible to parse today’s discussion without knowledge of this history. Second, military strategy is specifically and clearly defined in the Russian lexicon as the “highest sphere of military art,” the art of higher command comprising the bridge between the theory and practice of war. Military strategy is explicitly subordinate to state policy. Third, there are constraints on military strategy, particularly in terms of the implementation of plans. Moscow’s re-examination of military strategy has important implications for Western audiences. While many are focused on Moscow’s measures short of war, this paper highlights the importance that the Russian military still accords the use of armed force. Moreover, it suggests the need to move beyond thinking in terms of the blurring of the lines between war and peace, to the blurring of the lines between the offensive and the defensive.
in modern conditions. It makes several key arguments. First, history permeates the contemporary Russian debate, featuring both in the way that military experience is rendered into didactic lessons of history to advance military science, and in the arc of the theoretical development of Russian military strategy—it is not possible to parse today’s discussion without knowledge of this history. Second ... , and this influences the debate about contemporary and future war. Russian military strategy is based on three arcs: an arc tracing the line through Russian history to foresight and the future of war; an arc through
pla update: Issue 3, April 4, 2022
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PLA Update, Issue 3, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
history” of developing and using bioweapons. The op-ed claims the Russian military recently found “much evidence” of a US-funded military biological program in Ukraine and that the United States' attempts ... " in Ukraine Patrick deGategno and Brian Waidelich On March 17, the Central Military Commission (CMC) mouthpiece PLA Daily began publishing a series of scathing editorials blaming ... Crisis.” [1] The articles are all authored by “Jun Sheng,” a pseudonym for “Voice of the Military” that is generally interpreted to represent the PLA Daily editorial board's opinions on issues
A Brief History of CNA
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CNA is the oldest research and analysis organization in the United States that is an FFRDC, a federally funded research and development center. Our founder, Philip Morse, introduced the concept of operations research to the U.S. in order to address the German U-boat threat during World War II.
that was saving lives . white default /images/About-Us/History/dc-2001-anthrax-attack.jpg fixed left small callout white Global Rivals, Global Virus, 2017– By 2017, the growing military power and aggression ... History CNA is the oldest research and analysis organization in the United States that is an FFRDC, a federally funded research and development center. Our founder, Philip Morse, introduced the concept of operations research to the U.S. in order to address the German U-boat threat during World War II. /images/About-Us/History/korean-war-battleship-uss-missouri.jpg A Brief History of CNA
Mike Markowitz
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Mike Markowitz is a CNA expert in wargaming, with a specialization in graphics.
in the aerospace industry. He has contributed articles and reviews to many periodicals, including StrategyPage.com, Naval History, Naval War College Review, Medieval World and Military Heritage. He teaches a graphic design class for the Military Operations Research Society certificate course in wargame design. Markowitz has a Master of Arts in social ecology from the University of California, Irvine, and a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Rochester. Mike Markowitz Sr. Research Specialist Featured Squares white Explore more
Steve Wills
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Steven Wills is a CNA expert in U.S. Navy strategy, policy, surface welfare programs, and platforms.
Joint Forces Command, Naples, Italy. Wills completed his Ph.D. in military history at Ohio University and has a Master of Arts in national security studies from the U.S. Naval War College. Steve ... Wills-Steve Steven Wills is a CNA expert in U.S. Navy strategy, policy, surface welfare programs, and platforms. /images/Experts/Wills-Steven.jpg Steven Wills is an expert in U.S. Navy strategy and policy, and U.S. Navy surface warfare programs and platforms. As a Navy historian, his research interests include the history of U.S. Navy strategy development over the Cold War and immediate
Heidi Holz
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Heidi Holz’s research at CNA focuses on People’s Republic of China (PRC) global strategic communications, propaganda, disinformation, and global influence efforts.
issues, including PRC strategy and investments in the Arctic, illicit maritime activities by PRC actors, Chinese military doctrine and operations, and U.S.-China military-to-military relations ... at Voice of America’s Mandarin Service. Holz holds a Master of Arts in security studies and a Bachelor of Science in foreign service, with a focus on Chinese and East Asian history, from Georgetown
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).
and Xi, contextualize the history of the military within the plenum’s newly revised history of the Party, and exhort military personnel to remain steadfast in their adherence to and implementation ... reviews the military’s history within the broader revised history of the CCP, from its founding during the revolution to the present day. Zhang also attributes the military’s growing strength ...   under Xi Jinping’s leadership, reaffirming that the Party is taking the People’s Republic of China (PRC) “from being rich to becoming strong”; adopted a   resolution   on the history of the CCP
pla update: Issue 6, September 30, 2022
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PLA Update, Issue 6, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
been busy this summer—and not just because of Beijing’s public, diplomatic, and military responses to US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s August 2–4 visit to Taiwan ... . Rather, this issue reviews topics of consequence to the PLA that have been less well covered by media outside the PRC, including newly promulgated Central Military Commission (CMC) guidelines on non-war military activities, a series of PLA Daily commentaries on a compilation of Xi Jinping’s speeches about strengthening the military, and China’s participation in the Russian-led exercise Vostok 2022
ai and autonomy in russia: Issue 40, June 15, 2022
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. Military and Security Military AI for monitoring the Black Sea The Russian MOD’s Scientific Research Institute for Long-Distance Radio Communications (NIIDAR, part of the RTI Systems Group ... to the military with the help of machine-learning algorithms and elements of artificial intelligence. There is no information on when this NIIDAR system will be fielded. CNA wrote earlier about the Russian military’s plans to use artificial intelligence for data collection and analysis to augment decision-making capabilities, one of the key MOD goals for developing and using AI. We have no information