Terrible But Justified: The U.S. A-Bomb Attacks on Hiroshima and …
网页2015年9月29日 — 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 …
Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update - CNAS
网页2020年3月31日 — 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 years ago, there was mostly good news …
Improving Joint Operational Concept Development within the U.S …
网页2021年10月21日 — 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 ...
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2022 Year in Review | Center for a New …
网页2023年8月3日 — 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.”
Center for a New American Security (en-US) - CNAS
网页2024年2月8日 — Executive Summary. This report concludes that drones have transformed the battlefield in the war in Ukraine, but in an evolutionary rather than revolutionary fashion. 1 While tactical innovation abounds and drones offer some new capabilities, their impact falls short of the truly disruptive change that constitutes a so-called revolution in …
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2021 Year in Review | Center for a New …
网页2022年1月13日 — Belarus (100) The Treasury created Belarus-related sanctioning authorities in 2006 under President George W. Bush’s administration to address political repression in the country. The Biden administration expanded these authorities to address the long-standing human rights abuses stemming from the fraudulent 2020 Belarusian presidential election. In 2021, the Treasury imposed a total of 100 ...
A Tale of Two Strategies: Comparing the Biden and Trump …
网页2022年11月4日 — As Center for a New American Security CEO Richard Fontaine said in a recent episode of the Lawfare Podcast, the word “strategy” in the NSS is something of a misnomer—anyone looking for an articulation of objectives and how to achieve them may be disappointed.Rather, as Fontaine notes, the NSS is a “very long foreign policy speech, a snapshot of how a particular administration ...
Assessing the Evolving Russian Nuclear Threat | Center for a New …
网页2023年10月31日 — Introduction. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 reignited concerns about Moscow’s vast nuclear arsenal and the conditions under which the Kremlin might be willing to use these weapons. Moscow has gone to great lengths to stoke such concerns. At the start of the war, the Russian president publicly asked military ...
Understanding China's AI Strategy
网页2019年2月6日 — Use of the term “intelligentized” is meant to signify a new stage of military technology beyond the current stage based on information technology. 15 China’s AIDP strategy document states that China will “Promote all kinds of AI technology to become quickly embedded in the field of national defense innovation.”.
Sanctions by the Numbers: Transnational Crime and Drug …
网页2021年11月30日 — Colombia and Mexico. Colombia (670) and Mexico (666) continue to serve as epicenters for drug trafficking into the United States and account for roughly 60 percent of total transnational crime–related designations (2,155). In both countries, Washington has implemented counternarcotics sanctions in close coordination with local governments—the U.S. embassies in Bogotá and Mexico City host ...