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China's Aid to Russia: Lip Service?

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Elizabeth Wishnick explores whether China’s support for Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine will result in substantial aid, or if it’s simply lip service.

messaging about its "special military operations" in Ukraine. To combat the common perception of China as Putin's enabler and tacit supporter, state media declare that their country is "shouldering its ... talking points. Citizens are told that the invasion is a "special military operation," that Russia acted because of NATO's eastward expansion, and that the Kremlin was forced to enter Ukraine to root out

Weighing the Costs of War and Peace in Afghanistan

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The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad, tweeted that "peace requires agreement on four issues: counter-terrorism assurances, troop withdrawal."

by the U.S. counter-terrorism mission alone over the next year. If we assume that at least as many would be killed by the entire Afghan Army, police, and special operations forces, we get a very rough ... Weighing the Costs of War and Peace in Afghanistan The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad, tweeted that "peace requires agreement on four issues: counter-terrorism assurances, troop withdrawal." /images/InDepth/Post00.jpg Weighing the Costs of War and Peace in Afghanistan 0 Jonathan Schroden After 16 days of negotiations, the U.S. Special

Israel’s New Government is the Most Far-Right in its History

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San Plapinger examines how Benjamin Netanyahu’s new hardline government could impact the country’s relations with Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE.

Israel’s New Government is the Most Far-Right in its History San Plapinger examines how Benjamin Netanyahu’s new hardline government could impact the country’s relations with Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE. /images/InDepth/2023/BN-Resided.jpg Israel’s New Government is the Most Far-Right in its History Samuel Plapinger Samuel Plapinger is a Research Scientist with CNA’s Special Activities and Intelligence Program . His work focuses on strategic competition, irregular warfare, fleet operations and Middle East security issues. From 2020 to 2022, Samuel served as the embedded CNA field

What Qatar Wants from the World Cup

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Sam Plapinger examines what Qatar aimed to achieve by hosting the World Cup and whether a string of controversies has impacted these goals.

What Qatar Wants from the World Cup Sam Plapinger examines what Qatar aimed to achieve by hosting the World Cup and whether a string of controversies has impacted these goals. /images/InDepth/2022/12/Qatar-World-Cup-Copy.jpg What Qatar Wants from the World Cup Sam Plapinger Sam Plapinger is a Research Scientist with CNA’s Special Activities and Intelligence Program. At CNA, his work focuses on strategic competition, irregular warfare, fleet operations, and Middle East security issues. From 2020 to 2022, Sam served as the embedded CNA field representative to the commander of U.S. Naval Forces

China, Malaysia and the South China Sea

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On June 1, the Royal Malaysian Air Force announced that 16 People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) aircraft, flying in “tactical formation,” had entered Malaysia's Flight Information Region.

diplomacy ” in an effort to avoid antagonizing Beijing and to maintain what many Malaysians believe is a “ special relationship ” with China. Malaysia’s China policy has traditionally ... in the South China Sea. Kuala Lumpur has significant revenue-producing oil and gas operations in the South China Sea, much of which is within Chinese-claimed waters. Traditionally, Beijing has been

New Delhi and Washington's Defense Partnership

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As the United States and India conclude the third 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue this week, the results emerging from these meetings are notable, not just because of their substance, but because of their timing.

. The resulting change in the U.S.-India security relationship is broad. For many years, the U.S. has proposed Special Operations cooperation, a U.S.-India Defense Cyber Dialogue, the introduction

Thirteen COVID-19 Resources that Use Artificial Intelligence

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Andy Ilachinski and David Broyles, co-hosts of AI with AI, CNA's popular podcast on artificial intelligence, have compiled a timely, annotated list of AI developments and resources related to COVID-19.

Ilachinski is a principal research scientist for CNA's Special Activities and Intelligence program. He specializes in the mathematical and computer modeling of complex adaptive systems. He pioneered the application of agent-based modeling (ABM), and evolutionary programming techniques to military operations research problems, and developed two of the earliest ABMs of land warfare. Andy Ilachinski

Don’t Take the All-Volunteer Force for Granted

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Both experience and data tell us the all-volunteer force has resulted in the most experienced, best-educated, most qualified troops this country — and perhaps the world — has ever seen.

burden has fallen on some of the oldest, most experienced of the career enlisted forces — in special operations. Perhaps the most surprising benefit of the all-volunteer force has been

Five Myths About Cryptocurrencies

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The National Security Commission on AI solicits creative and original ideas to challenge the status quo assumptions on maintaining US global leadership in AI

majorities of the network — will be honest. To learn more, follow these links to the full reports: Cryptocurrencies: A Primer for Policy-Makers and Cryptocurrencies: Implications for Special Operations Forces . center

ai with ai: K9mm

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Welcome to Season 5.0 of AI with AI! Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including. The White House calls for an AI “bill of rights,” and invites comments for information. In its 4th year, Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth publish their State of AI Report, 2021. [1:50] OpenAI uses reinforcement learning from human feedback and recursive task decomposition to improve algorithms’ abilities to summarize books. [3:14] IEEE Spectrum publishes a paper that examines the diminishing returns of deep learning, questioning the long-term viability of the technology. [5:12] In related news, Nvidia and Microsoft release a 530 billion-parameter style language model, the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model (MT-NLG). [6:54] DeepMind demonstrates the use of a GAN in improving high-resolution precipitation “nowcasting.” [10:05] Researchers from Waterloo, Guelph, and IIT Madras publish research on deep learning that can identify early warning signals of tipping points. [11:54] Military robot maker Ghost Robots creates a robot dog with a rifle, the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle, or SPUR. [14:25] And Dr. Larry Lewis joins Dave and Andy to discuss the latest report from CNA on Leveraging AI to Mitigate Civilian Harm, which describes the causes of civilian harm in military operations, identifies how AI could protect civilians from harm and identifies ways to lessen the infliction of suffering, injury, and destruction overall. [16:36]

. [11:54] Military robot maker Ghost Robots creates a robot dog with a rifle, the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle, or SPUR. [14:25] And Dr. Larry Lewis joins Dave and Andy to discuss the latest report from CNA on Leveraging AI to Mitigate Civilian Harm, which describes the causes of civilian harm in military operations, identifies how AI could protect civilians from harm and identifies ways