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500,000
Russia has now suffered over 500,000 casualties since the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine.
SOURCE: "Ukrainian Offensive in Russia" with CSIS's Seth G. Jones.
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30 years old
In the U.S. Air Force fleet, the average fighter is about 30 years old. These aging aircraft are increasingly neither mission capable nor safe to fly, and purchases of new aircraft are not keeping up with the pace of the problem.
SOURCE: "The Department of Defense’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program: Good News, Bad News, and Unanswered Questions" by CSIS's Gregory C. Allen and Isaac Goldston.
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60 percent
Shipbuilding has been a weak link in the U.S. defense industrial base, so it will benefit from collaboration with Canada and Finland: 60 percent of the world’s icebreakers are produced at Finnish shipyards.
SOURCE: "Recruiting Friends for the Polar Icebreaker Express: Viewing the ICE Pact through Broader Defense Industrial Cooperation" by CSIS's Katy Buda, Gregory Sanders, and Cynthia Cook.
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$500 million
The 2+2 meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and their counterparts resulted in a U.S. commitment to allocate $500 million in foreign military financing to the Philippines.
SOURCE: "A Tale of Two 2+2s: Japan and the Philippines" by CSIS's Christopher b. Johnstone and Gregory B. Poling.
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