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Samuel Bendett said, “it would be a mistake to see Russia’s drone industry as a failure, and that Russian drones may decide the war — if they can overcome major obstacles.”

Michael Peterson explains, “It’s unclear whether Moscow didn’t see this coming, or whether it saw the redeployment of Ukrainian troops and concluded that they didn’t pose a critical threat. In addition, the Ukrainian army appears to have been initially fighting border guards and poorly trained and inexperienced conscripts.”

Article cited an after-action report written by CNA. The Health and Hospital committee voted to accept an "after action report" regarding the county's pandemic response, written by consultant CNA Corporation. The report was accompanied by an improvement plan.

Decker Eveleth wrote, “North Korean leader Kim Jung Un made a show of delivering over 250 tactical ballistic missile launchers to 'front line units' but NK Pro analysis shows that DPRK already began deploying the modern missile system over a year ago, a troubling development that raises the risk of nuclear use in the peninsula."

Samuel Bendett said, “When combined with newly developed antenna technology, the range of a Ukrainian exploding drone is 25km, double that of early models."

Article cites CNA’s A Review of Millennial Generation Characteristics and Military Workforce Implications

Samuel Bendett said, “There were numerous attempts of Ukrainian FPVs trying to chase Russian helicopters before, but all such attacks were near misses. It’s difficult to pilot an FPV drone towards a military helicopter flying at high speeds.”

Elizabeth Wishnick explores the perspectives of Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and India regarding Arctic governance and security and what this means for the United States.

This episode features Sam Bendett. He was written extensively on the war in Ukraine and in particular the drone combat occurring there. We look at how the generation of the combined arms effect is changing and what the lessons learnt are from the battlefields of Ukraine.

Elizabeth Wishnick explained, “Central Asians wanted to diversify away from Russia to have more choice. China is not necessarily the only partner they want. And they they’ve been trying, especially recently, to engage with European countries, with India, with Iran, with Turkey, with a broader range of countries.”

Samuel Bendett explained, “A lot of this autonomy depends on data sets, the information that’s pre-loaded and taught to the drone. But the Ukrainian field is very complex, with numerous man-made obstacles, and things a human could recognise intuitively – whether a vehicle is operative or abandoned, whether the physical terrain has been altered – are really hard tricks to teach a drone.”

Joshua Tallis wrote, “We are in an evolutionary phase of unmanned integration, and this fact should inform the Navy’s transition to the eventual hybrid fleet. This era requires naval concepts of employment for unmanned systems that center the missile, with robotic platforms serving important but ultimately additive roles and missions.”

Rizwan Jan wrote, “Many companies focus heavily on investing in new technologies and systems but overlook people. IT talent is critical for business growth. Rolling out a tech solution without first understanding the business processes behind it—without having the people in place to understand it—is a recipe for frustration and even disaster.”

Article cited Exploring the Relationship between China’s Investment in the Arctic and Its National Strategy in relation to China pursuing investments in Arctic energy and logistics infrastructure to consolidate Beijing’s energy security.

Adam Clemens writes, "The U.S. Marine Corps needs to adapt to 21st-century roles that strengthen the competitive position of the Nation. Three roles that do so are maintaining a steady-state presence in the Western Pacific to support and maintain influence in partner countries surrounding China; maintaining a credible force to counter Chinese or Russian adventurism abroad; and preparing forces to capture ships to impose strategic costs on China’s shipping-dependent economy."

Margaret Sparling said, "Integrating Melanesia—a region that comprises the Pacific Island countries of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu—into the Indo-Pacific security framework is necessary for U.S. security interests given the region’s positioning along strategic maritime passageways and role in connecting the U.S. and its regional allies."