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Victory Over and Across Domains: Training For Tomorrow’s Battlefields
Synthetic training can play a critical role in preserving the U.S. military’s warfighting edge in an information-saturated, multi-domain combat environment.
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Regaining the High Ground at Sea: Transforming the U.S. Navy’s Carrier Air Wing for Great Power Competition
REGAINING THE HIGH GROUND AT SEA examines trends in U.S. strategy, capabilities, and threats between now and 2040 to describe the operational concepts carrier aircraft will likely need to use in the future, as well as the implications for how carrier air wings should evolve during the next 20 years.
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Air and Missile Defense at a Crossroads: New Concepts and Technologies to Defend America’s Overseas Bases
Future layered defenses with these capabilities could greatly increase the level of effort an adversary would need to undertake to attack America’s overseas bases successfully.
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Countering Comprehensive Coercion: Competitive Strategies Against Authoritarian Political Warfare
Democratic nations are particularly vulnerable to comprehensive coercion because their open nature provides pathways for rivals to influence, Countering Comprehensive Coercion offers policymakers a better understanding of the threat they face.
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Credibility Matters: Strengthening American Deterrence in an Age of Geopolitical Turmoil
America's global credibility is in crisis -- this new report from CSBA explores how to fix it.
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Human-Machine Teaming for Future Ground Forces
By the middle of the 21st century, ground forces will employ tens of thousands of robots, and the decisions of human commanders will be shaped by artificial intelligence; trends in technology and warfare make this a near certainty. The military organizations of the United States and its allies and partners must plan now for this new era of warfare.