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WEBLast night, in a remarkable show of bipartisanship, the U.S. Senate passed the $95 billion foreign-aid package. What all was included in the package, and what is its significa... Press Release. May 10, 2024. New CNAS Report Assesses U.S. Space Force Successes and Persistent Challenges.
Terrible But Justified: The U.S. A-Bomb Attacks on Hiroshima and …
WEBSep 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.
Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update - CNAS
WEBMarch 31, 2020. Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update. By: Emma Moore. Print. 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.
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2021 Year in Review | Center for a New …
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. …
State Veteran Benefit Finder | Center for a New American ... - CNAS
WEBNov 11, 2019 · State-level benefits, though extensive, vary widely and are often difficult to identify. With this State Veteran Benefit Finder, CNAS makes information about 1,871 identified benefits easily searchable. This tool allows users to filter state-level veteran benefits by type of benefit, beneficiary, and state to identify benefits for which they ...
Artificial Intelligence and International Security | Center for ... - CNAS
WEBJul 10, 2018 · This report is part of the Center for a New American Security’s series on Artificial Intelligence and International Security. The series examines the potential consequences of advances in artificial intelligence for the national security community. Nearly every aspect of national security could be transformed by artificial intelligence.
The Future of Warfare - CNAS
WEBTo explore this issue, the CNAS Defense Program is pursuing multiple lines of effort: Drone Wars. Recent conflicts, such as Nagorno-Karabakh, Libya, and Ukraine, have demonstrated how drones are shifting the way war is fought. This project examines global proliferation of military drones and their employment in modern conflicts to identify ...
A New U.S. Strategy for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
WEBDec 16, 2020 · Overview. As this report goes to press, the possibility of a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems distant. Israel continues its occupation and territorial expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, with hundreds of thousands of settlers now living beyond the 1967 borders and a majority of the Israeli parliament prepared, in principle, to support annexing West Bank territory ...
When Do Economic Sanctions Work Best? - CNAS
WEBJun 10, 2019 · Coercive economic instruments work less often in achieving major policy objectives like military impairment or political regime change than achieving modest policy goals like releasing a political prisoner or resolving a minor trade dispute. The use of sanctions to achieve the ambitious goal of regime or …
Artificial Intelligence and Arms Control - CNAS
WEBOct 12, 2022 · Introduction. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) pose immense opportunity for militaries around the world. With this rising potential for AI-enabled military systems, some activists are sounding the alarm, calling for restrictions or outright bans on some AI-enabled weapon systems. 1 Conversely, skeptics of AI arms control argue that as a general-purpose technology developed in the ...
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