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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China
“The thing we see across all the wargames is that there are major losses on all sides. And the impact of that on our society is quite devastating,” said Becca Wasser, who play...
By Becca Wasser
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Lawmakers will (literally) game out a Chinese attack on Taiwan
Under the watchful eye of “game-master” Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the CNAS defense program, the lawmakers will play advisers to the president, a.k.a. the Blue Team.Becca W...
By Becca Wasser, Stacie Pettyjohn & Andrew Metrick
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CNAS Defense Team Conducts Tabletop Exercise for the House Select Committee on the CCP
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‘Resupply is not an option’: Lawmakers wargame Chinese invasion of Taiwan
The wargame was carried out behind closed doors on Capitol Hill as a tabletop exercise between lawmakers, playing the role of the Taiwanese, and defense experts at the Center ...
By Andrew Metrick
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House China Committee will War Game an Invasion of Taiwan
Members will be using an open-source, unclassified war game developed by the Center for a New American Security, a think tank based in Washington. CNAS defense experts Becca W...
By Becca Wasser & Andrew Metrick
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House China Committee Goes to War (Game)
It’s 2027. Taiwan’s leadership is considering declaring itself an independent country. Chinese paramount leader XI JINPING, angered by the major shift, chooses to launch an in...
By Becca Wasser & Andrew Metrick
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CNAS Gaming Lab Leads Wargame on NBC's Meet the Press
Washington, May 16, 2022—The Gaming Lab at CNAS recently led a strategic-operational wargame, "Dangerous Straits: Battle for Taiwan 2027," in partnership with NBC's Meet the P...
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CNAS Wargame Shows U.S. Needs to Work with Taiwan and Japan to Develop Better Deterrents to Chinese Aggression
Washington, October 26, 2021—How could the United States respond if China seized one of Taiwan’s outlying islands in the South China Sea? A recent wargame conducted by the Cen...
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Introducing The Gaming Lab at CNAS
The Center for a New American Security today launched The Gaming Lab at CNAS, a new major initiative led by the CNAS Defense Program. CNAS experts and adjuncts at The Gaming L...
By Chris Dougherty, Becca Wasser & Cole Stevens
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Slaughter in the East China Sea
The year is 2030. Chinese troops seize a Japanese island in the South China Sea. Japan dispatches an amphibious task force to retake the island. Soon, U.S. warships and aircra...
By Chris Dougherty, Susanna V. Blume, Becca Wasser & Dr. ED McGrady
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Becca Wasser Joins CNAS as Fellow in Defense Program
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Becca Wasser has joined CNAS as a Fellow in the Defense program. Ms. Wasser’s research areas include ...