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.
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 …
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 ...
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 ...
Improving Joint Operational Concept Development within the U.S …
Oct 21, 2021 · The paper makes the following recommendations to improve the joint concept development process: Focus joint concept development on priority challenges in a future operational environment. Empower the combatant commands to drive joint concept development. Explore alternative visions of future war and validate joint concepts through extensive ...
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 ...
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.
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Sanctions by the Numbers: Comparing the Trump and Biden Administrations’ Sanctions and Export Controls on China. Executive Summary The Biden administration has exceeded the Trump administration in the number of financial sanctions and entity-based export controls placed on Chinese person...
Sanctions by the Numbers: Economic Measures against Russia
Jun 16, 2022 · Executive Summary. Following the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February, the United States and its allies have unleashed an impressive array of economic measures against Moscow, using a wide range of economic tools to weaken Russian military operations, as well as punish and disincentivize those offering financial or logistical support for its continued aggression toward Ukraine.
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2020 Year in Review - CNAS
Jan 14, 2021 · Sanctions designations remained high in 2020, with 777 designations compared to 785 in 2019. Iran was by far the most prominent target of U.S. sanctions in 2020, with 43 percent of designations targeting Iran-linked individuals and entities—a significant increase from 2019 when Iran-related designations were just under 27 percent of designations.