How not to innovate: Russia plays catch-up to Ukraine on drones

How not to innovate: Russia plays catch-up to Ukraine on drones
How not to innovate: Russia plays catch-up to Ukraine on drones

Think the Pentagon is ponderous? A new study from CNA shows how Soviet-style bureaucracy and an industrial base dependent on imports – from Iran, China, and the West – have hampered Russian drone warfare in Ukraine.

Russia’s naval doctrine may call for challenging the West, but does it have the shipyards?

Russia’s naval doctrine may call for challenging the West, but does it have the shipyards?
Russia’s naval doctrine may call for challenging the West, but does it have the shipyards?

Moscow may need to build a new shipyard to meet its aspirations, including Russia’s own “Pacific pivot,” and sanctions are only making things more difficult, analysts told Breaking Defense.

Why Turkey calling it ‘war’ in Ukraine matters for the Black Sea

Why Turkey calling it ‘war’ in Ukraine matters for the Black Sea
Why Turkey calling it ‘war’ in Ukraine matters for the Black Sea

Experts say Turkey, a NATO member, is in a difficult position, caught between supporting a friend in Ukraine, but also avoiding escalating tension with Russia.

Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Created Under DoD CIO

Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Created Under DoD CIO
Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Created Under DoD CIO

“The major challenge for the US is China,” CNA analyst Larry Lewis said. “They are approaching the use of AI just like the US approached going to the moon in the sixties.”

AI for Good in War; Beyond Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil:’

      In recent weeks, two events demonstrated the promise of and concern over the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI). At the #AI4Good Summit in Geneva, attendees reviewed the many ways AI can help humanity in medicine, education, economic and law enforcement applications, to name a few. Meanwhile, Google withdrew from a Pentagon project called…

Electronic Warfare Trumps Cyber For Deterring Russia

Electronic Warfare Trumps Cyber For Deterring Russia
Electronic Warfare Trumps Cyber For Deterring Russia

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: NATO’s plans to defend the Baltic States are “inadequate” because they don’t take full account of Russia’s electronic warfare capabilities, a leading expert warns. The Russians are hardly invincible, Roger McDermott emphasized at CSIS on Monday. The story of them “shutting down” the Aegis radar on the USS Cook…

‘Landmark Event’ In Artificial Intelligence: DeepMind Trains Itself

‘Landmark Event’ In Artificial Intelligence: DeepMind Trains Itself
‘Landmark Event’ In Artificial Intelligence: DeepMind Trains Itself

WASHINGTON: When a computer system defeated one of the greatest masters of the complex game known as Go last year, the world gasped. Experts had said months before that such an event would not occur in their lifetimes. Last night, the magazine Nature published an article by DeepMind, the Google company behind that breakthrough, claiming…

Russian Robots: Fear Jammers, Not Terminators

Russian Robots: Fear Jammers, Not Terminators
Russian Robots: Fear Jammers, Not Terminators

WASHINGTON: Don’t worry about Russia building a killer robot someday. Worry about the radio-jamming drones they have today. Despite a few grandiose claims and snazzy videos of robots shooting guns, Russia remains behind “the Chinese, Iranians, and the Turks” in developing armed unmanned systems, let alone the United States, CNA expert Samuel Bendett said this…