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.
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 ...
Assessing the Evolving Russian Nuclear Threat | CNAS
Oct 31, 2023 · 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 leadership to place ...
Sanctions by the Numbers: Transnational Crime and Drug Trafficking
Nov 30, 2021 · 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 ...
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 …
A Joint Warfighting Concept for Systems Warfare | CNAS
Dec 17, 2020 · The Central Idea: Human-Machine Collaborative Battle Networks and Algorithmic Operations. The central idea of a new JWC for systems warfare is that Joint Force efforts should aim to achieve deterrence by denial through fielding new battle networks that operate better and faster than adversary operational systems, and ones that cannot be destroyed like the battle networks used today.
Defense Technology Strategy - CNAS
Nov 17, 2020 · The Department of Defense’s (DoD) ever-shifting technology priorities jeopardize its ability to win a long-term technology competition. The DoD needs a systematic approach—a technology strategy—for how to prioritize technology investments. The dominant global tech trend today is the information revolution, which is leading to exponential ...
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2021 Year in Review - CNAS
Jan 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. Coordination with allies—especially the ...