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WEBDrone Proliferation Dataset The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Drone Proliferation Dataset tracks global transfers of military-grade aerial drones, regardless of size and capability, between 1...
Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update - CNAS
WEBMar 31, 2020 — Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update. It has been five years since the ban on women in combat was lifted in 2015 and women began integrating previously closed combat arms billets in January 2016. Five years is the length of a service academy contract and longer than the average enlistment contract. Two …
Improving Joint Operational Concept Development within the U.S …
WEBOct 21, 2021 — Over three decades of repeated efforts to develop joint operational concepts, none has resulted in any real changes to the way the U.S. military fights or how the joint force is designed. During the post–Cold War period of unrivaled U.S. military advantage and uncontested dominance across operating domains, these failings had little warfighting impact, particularly within the context of ...
Sanctions by the Numbers: U.S. Secondary Sanctions - CNAS
WEBAug 26, 2021 — As the U.S. government will likely continue to impose secondary sanctions alongside primary sanctions to support U.S. foreign policy goals, this edition of Sanctions by the Numbers seeks to clarify the distinction between primary and secondary sanctions, analyze trends in the application of secondary sanctions, and assess the future prospects ...
Evolution Not Revolution - CNAS
WEBFeb 8, 2024 — But thus far in Ukraine, drone warfare has been an evolution, not a revolution. This report is part of a larger project that is exploring how drones are affecting great-power competition and a potential future war between the United States and China. A forthcoming report by Stacie Pettyjohn, Hannah Dennis, and Molly Campbell examines this ...
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2021 Year in Review - CNAS
WEBJan 13, 2022 — In 2021, the Treasury issued a total of 765 new designations with the majority (51 percent) pursuant to country-specific sanctions programs, mainly Belarus, Burma, China, and Russia, and 787 delistings with roughly 92 percent pursuant to thematic sanctions programs, mainly addressing drug trafficking. …
Michèle Flournoy | Center for a New American Security (en-US)
WEBJul 5, 2024 — Michèle Flournoy is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors, and former Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors. Michèle served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012.
Michael Kofman | Center for a New American Security (en-US)
WEBOct 31, 2023 — Michael Kofman serves as a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses' Russia Studies Program, and a Fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on the Russia and the former Soviet Union, specializing in the Russian armed forces, military thought, capabilities, and strategy. Previously, he served at National ...
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2022 Year in Review - CNAS
WEBAug 3, 2023 — Russia Sanctions Most country-specific sanctions in 2022 target Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine. This paper provides a brief overview of the sanctions packages; a more detailed accounting of the sanctions through May 11, 2022, is available in prior CNAS analysis, “ Sanctions by the Numbers: Economic Measures against Russia Following Its 2022 Invasion of Ukraine.” Overall, the ...
Dangerous Straits: Wargaming a Future Conflict over Taiwan - CNAS
WEBJun 15, 2022 — The wargame highlighted an additional asymmetry in this tension: the role that capable U.S. allies and partners could play in a future conflict. Not only does China lack such relationships, but capable military partners on the U.S. side add significant combat power, depth, and strategic significance to efforts to defend Taiwan. This further complicates PRC decision-making about how it to may ...