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Home / Military analysis / A new “quartet of chaos” threatens America
Military analysis, China‑Taiwan, Drones, Land power, Taiwan, Ukraine‑Russia

September 22, 2024

A new “quartet of chaos” threatens America

North Korea, too, receives “valuable technical and military insights” on the performance of its missiles against Western air defences, notes Mira Rapp-Hooper, an American security official. China’s strategists have been studying the performance of HIMARS, landmines and drones—capabilities it expects to encounter in a war over Taiwan—in the Ukraine war, says Lyle Goldstein, an expert on China’s armed forces at Brown University.

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