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Dawn Thomas said, “[Santa Clara County fining nearly 400 businesses] was a far higher rate than virtually all other surrounding Bay Area counties at that time, with little evidence the fines resulted in better public health outcomes in Santa Clara than in the other counties in the region... Many people, even public health experts, struggled with interpreting the health orders and how the frequent changes affected daily activities and business status. This challenge was magnified for the business community.”

Decker Eveleth said, “Many nuclear experts spent about a decade arguing that missile defense was not cost effective and the DPRK would simply outbuild the shield when they got a program rolling. These concerns were dismissed, largely because people did not think the DPRK was capable of a program of that scale. And here we are.”

Heather Roff said, “[Automated systems] are not systems that operate in the ways we assume they should operate in. We overestimate their capabilities quite often. So, when it comes to standards, there’s still difficulties coming up with standards for these new systems.”

Samuel Bendett said, "Russian futurists, Russian technologists, Russian developers are envisioning this slow evolution away from larger human involvement to where humans are going to be involved as little as possible.”

This lever-pull was informed by a “qualified enlisted population,” or QEP, metric developed by the Corps in coordination with CNA, a nonprofit research and analysis organization, recruiting command officials said. This analysis crunches multiple population attributes within geographic areas to predict where recruiters are most likely to succeed.

According to Samuel Bendett, “Prior to its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military was one of the global leaders in UGV research, development and evaluation. It developed multiple types and started trialing them, but did so in a very limited format.”

Elizabeth Wishnick said, “The ‘joint development’ formula, signed in May in the presence of Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, is a signal from Moscow to Beijing emphasizing Russian sovereignty over half of the island."

“Dmitry Gorenburg is a Senior Research Scientist in the Russia Studies Program of CNA, a Washington based nonprofit for research and analysis. He discusses the purpose of the exercises.”

Dr. Dmitry Gorenburg cautioned against jumping to the conclusion that aging ruling elites necessarily lead to poor governance outcomes, “Aging leaders are on average less flexible and have more difficulty adapting to new ideas or circumstances. For Russia, the obvious example is the Brezhnev period of the Soviet Union, when there was little ability to adapt to shifting circumstances.”

“Historically, airstrikes [kill] a higher ratio of women and children compared to ground operations,” said Larry Lewis, an expert on the civilian impacts of war at CNA, a nonprofit research group in Washington. The findings of the AP analysis “make sense,” he said.

Samuel Bendett said, “One challenge is that Russia is getting to see firsthand how this technology is used, and is incorporating those lessons almost as quickly as the Ukrainians can scrap their way to another idea.”

According to an analysis by Larry Lewis, “Israel as of late February appeared to have killed an average of 54 civilians per 100 attacks. The ratio in Raqqa, by comparison, was 1.7 civilian deaths per 100 attacks based on Pentagon casualty estimates, or seven deaths based on Airwars data.”

David Finkelstein wrote, “Each year, during the first days of June, my thoughts turn to my father. Eighty years ago, on June 6, 1944, he was one of approximately 150,000 Allied military personnel who participated in one of the most consequential moments of the Second World War in Europe: the Normandy landings.”

David Finkelstein wrote, “Each year, during the first days of June, my thoughts turn to my father. Eighty years ago, on June 6, 1944, he was one of approximately 150,000 Allied military personnel who participated in one of the most consequential moments of the Second World War in Europe: the Normandy landings.”

The Maritime Administration (MARAD) remains focused on developing the National Maritime Strategy, working with the Center for Naval Analyses. We understand that MARAD is aiming to have a draft of the strategy developed by the end of the year, with final publication to occur in 2025. Undoubtedly, the strategy will focus heavily on building the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base to counteract PRC influence.