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NEW from @kcirtem, Philip Sheers, and Stacie Pettyjohn, Over the Brink: Escalation Management in a Protracted War 🧵⬇️

In this Breaking Defense piece, @kcirtem & Phil Sheers unpack the implications of China's nuclear build up...BLUF it isn't good & the DoD needs to think a lot more about the intersection between conventional warfighting & nuclear deterrence breakingdefense.com/2024/08/into-t…

@kcirtem, Philip Sheers & Stacie Pettyjohn new report, "Over the Brink: Escalation Management in a Protracted War" posits a conventional-nuclear crossfade: in a protracted Sino-American conflict, an inversion of conventional & nuclear escalation risks may render limited nuclear

Thanks to Shashank Joshi for writing this great piece in The Economist on @kcirtem, Philip Sheers, and my recent CNAS report on some wargames that we ran exploring nuclear dynamics in a potential US-China war over Taiwan. economist.com/asia/2024/08/2…

Proud to share the @cnasdc publication of my open source dataset tracking 30+ yrs of military drone proliferation. Free to download, the data can be used to analyze global proliferation trends, transfers by system type, & region-specific imports. cnas.org/publications/r…

No service is ever done speaking to the people, especially not one with so much ground to make up in the realm of public support. ow.ly/USaX30sGkHy

The U.S. Army's role in the Pacific is undergoing a strategic evolution. To learn more about the future of the Army in the region, join CNAS on 10/15 for a conversation with General Charles Flynn, GEN Ronald P. Clark, moderated by Stacie Pettyjohn. cnas.org/events/virtual…

It’s time we take nuclear signaling srsly again. My CNAS colleague Philip Sheers makes a clear argument in favor of building up the US ability to do so and discusses what changes the US needs to make to ensure it can credibly signal in a future crisis. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/27/tru…

A big thank you to the editors and team at Foreign Policy for publishing my piece on U.S. nuclear operations and signaling! In it, I argue that United States faces a dire need to re-exercise its nuclear muscles: bit.ly/43Qv0cT.

Live at #CNAS2025 General David Allvin lays out what he thinks the optimal force mixture for the U.S. Air Force should be. Watch it here:

Don't miss a CNAS discussion on how the U.S. can revitalize the defense industrial base 📅Tomorrow, 9:30 a.m 🎙️John Garamendi 🎙️Douglas Bush 🎙️Tom Jones 🎙️Becca Wasser 🎙️Stacie Pettyjohn

Honored to be selected to speak at CNAS unveiling of their new report: From Production Lines to Front Lines. Their work is critical in guiding the revitalization of the U.S great defense industrial base.