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Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update - CNAS
November 23, 2024; What Trump’s Pick for Secretary of Defense Could Mean for Inclusivity in the Military. Dr. Kyleanne Hunter, Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at CNAS joins to discuss the Trump administration nominee for secretary of defense....
Terrible But Justified: The U.S. A-Bomb Attacks on Hiroshima and …
Sep 29, 2015 · Were the atomic bomb attacks on Japan in August 1945 justifiable? As the world marks the 70th anniversary of these momentous and terrifying events, it is important to ask this question anew, as the past remains alive in Asia’s present and as nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence are becoming increasingly salient in world politics, particularly in Asia.
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AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security Risks
Aug 13, 2024 · Executive Summary. Not long after COVID-19 gave the world a glimpse of the catastrophic potential of biological events, experts began warning that rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) could augur a world of bioterrorism, unprecedented superviruses, and novel targeted bioweapons.
Sharper: Trump 2.0 | CNAS
Nov 20, 2024 · Features Katherine Kuzminski on Vox’s Today Explained. Katherine Kuzminski, deputy director of studies and director of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at CNAS, joins Vox’s Today Explained to discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of some unconventional people to his cabinet, including Fox News host Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense, and what the picks say about ...
The State of the War in Ukraine with Michael Kofman | CNAS
Apr 19, 2024 · December 13, 2024; What Can Europe do in Syria? After 54 years of brutal rule in Syria, the al-Assad family’s reign came to an end last week. Following 13 years of devastating civil war, which saw over a million refugees fl...
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Principles for the Combat Employment of Weapon Systems with
Apr 28, 2021 · This paper offers a starting point for these discussions. The seven principles proposed in this paper are intended to complement and build on existing DoD guidance, including DoD Directive (DoDD) 3000.09, Autonomy in Weapon Systems, and DoD’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Principles. 8 They are also consistent with the 11 guiding principles adopted in 2019 by the CCW in its “Meeting of the ...
Improving Joint Operational Concept Development within the U.S …
Oct 21, 2021 · It was evident that the DoD remains tied to its traditional ways of warfighting when General John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said an initial effort at developing a new joint warfighting concept based largely on how the U.S. military has operated for the past 30 years proved an utter failure when tested in a series of wargames in late 2020. 6 That result, Hyten said, has ...