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Airpower after Ukraine

Aug 30, 2022

The TB2: The value of a cheap and “good enough” drone

By Aaron Stein

The Turkish Bayraktar TB2 is an effective, low-cost tactical weapon on the modern battlefield. While invaluable for all wars, it is not a game-changing technology.

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Airpower after Ukraine

Aug 30, 2022

The Ukraine war and its impact on Russian development of autonomous weapons

By Samuel Bendett

Moscow's plans to employ autonomous systems on the battlefield may be set back by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

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Airpower after Ukraine

Aug 30, 2022

Air denial: The dangerous illusion of decisive air superiority

By Maximillian K. Bremer and Kelly A. Grieco

The air war in Ukraine challenges traditional paradigms of air superiority. US and allied air forces must instead contemplate air denial strategies.

Cybersecurity Defense Technologies

Airpower after Ukraine

Aug 30, 2022

Information warfare in the air littoral: Talking with the world

By Zachary Kallenborn

Information operations play a crucial role in generating mass in the air littoral, the airspace between ground forces.

Cybersecurity Disinformation
Senior Airman Julianne Showalter

Airpower after Ukraine

Aug 30, 2022

AirLand redux? Early lessons from Ukraine

By Michael P. Kreuzer

Ukraine is exploiting the seam between airpower and land-domain assets, hinting that the friction of war at the airland seam is growing.

Defense Policy Defense Technologies

Airpower after Ukraine

Aug 30, 2022

Air superiority in Ukraine: Be sensitive to Diagoras’s problem

By David Pappalardo

Observers of the war in Ukraine must remain cautious and not draw conclusions merely based on what they see.

China Defense Policy

Airpower after Ukraine

Aug 30, 2022

Will robotized fire power replace manned air power?

By Peter Wilson

Russia's aerospace campaign points toward the increased robotization of deep-strike systems in modern warfare.

China Cybersecurity

UkraineAlert

Aug 21, 2022

What Ukraine needs to win the war

By Richard D. Hooker, Jr.

Ukraine can win the war against Vladimir Putin's Russia and secure an extended peace in Europe but victory depends on receiving Western support that goes well beyond the current level, writes Richard D. Hooker Jr.

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Aug 9, 2022

Ahmad in Middle East Eye: The US strike on al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri

By Atlantic Council

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Aug 8, 2022

Rafiq in Times Now: Ayman Al Zawahiri’s killing shows US needs a Pakistan long game

By Atlantic Council

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Dominika Kunertova

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

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Thomas X. Hammes

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

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Jessie Ilkson

Director, Government Affairs, General Atomics

Millennium Leadership Program

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Ali Bakir

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative

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