Terrible But Justified: The U.S. A-Bomb Attacks on Hiroshima and …
Sep 29, 2015 — The March 1945 air assault on Tokyo, for instance, is thought to have killed nearly 100,000 people, more than those lost in either the Hiroshima or Nagasaki attacks. So harsh was this campaign that one of its architects, 20th Air Force commander General Curtis Lemay, remarked that he expected to be treated as a war criminal if Japan prevailed.
Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update - CNAS
Mar 31, 2020 — Army. The percentage of women in the Army has grown incrementally in recent years to 19 percent of officers in 2018 from 17.7 percent in 2013; 9.6 percent warrant officers in 2018 from 9.5 percent in 2013; and 14.4 percent of enlisted ranks in 2018 from 13 percent in 2013. Soldier 2020, the Army’s gender integration plan, wraps up this year ...
A Tale of Two Strategies: Comparing the Biden and Trump …
Nov 4, 2022 — In many respects, Biden’s NSS of 2022 was written in a much different world than that of Trump’s NSS of 2017. One stark example is the U.S. relationship with Russia—the Biden administration delayed the release of its NSS in February, citing the likelihood of a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. Read the full story and more from Lawfare.
Evolution Not Revolution - CNAS
Feb 8, 2024 — Thus, according to the skeptics, drones are not fundamentally shifting the character of war. 4. This report concludes that drones have transformed the battlefield in Ukraine, but in an evolutionary rather than revolutionary fashion. 5 While tactical innovation abounds and drones offer some new capabilities, this falls short of the truly ...
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2022 Year in Review - CNAS
Aug 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 …
Improving Joint Operational Concept Development within the U.S …
Oct 21, 2021 — The paper makes the following recommendations to improve the joint concept development process: Focus joint concept development on priority challenges in a future operational environment. Empower the combatant commands to drive joint concept development. Explore alternative visions of future war and validate joint concepts through extensive ...
Dangerous Straits: Wargaming a Future Conflict over Taiwan
Jun 15, 2022 — To do so, the Gaming Lab at CNAS, in partnership with NBC’s Meet the Press, conducted a high-level strategic-operational wargame exploring a fictional war over Taiwan, set in 2027. The wargame sought to illuminate the dilemmas that U.S. and Chinese policymakers might face in such a conflict, along with the strategies they might adopt to ...
State Veteran Benefit Finder - CNAS
Nov 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 ...
Sanctions by The Numbers: The Russian Energy Sector | CNAS
Apr 4, 2024 — The United States and EU also implemented a series of sanctions on individuals and entities in the Russian energy sector, including the heads of major Russian energy companies. These sanctions included asset freezes and travel bans on sanctioned individuals. Additionally, the United States placed six major companies—Gazprom, Rosneft Oil ...
Sanctions by the Numbers: SDN, CMIC, and Entity List ... - CNAS
Mar 2, 2023 — This edition of Sanctions by the Numbers explains the SDN, CMIC, and Entity Lists and then analyzes the growth and distribution of China-related designations on each list. It then discusses the use of designations to achieve human rights and democracy goals, the role of U.S. allies in sanctions and export controls, and the future outlook of SDN ...