Each week, we'll share with you some of the most compelling numbers in our studies.
200 aircraft
Just after midnight on June 13, over 200 Israeli fighter aircraft conducted precision strikes against more than 100 nuclear and military targets across Iran, including senior military leaders.
SOURCE: "Ungentlemanly Robots: Israel’s Operation Rising Lion and the New Way of War" by CSIS's Benjamin Jensen.
59.5 percent
China manipulates global mineral markets by flooding the market with excess supply, driving prices down and forcing Western mining operations to shut down. For example, between May 2022 and May 2025, cobalt prices fell 59.5 percent.
SOURCE: "Building a New Market to Counter Chinese Mineral Market Manipulation" by CSIS's Gracelin Baskaran.
70 percent
The ongoing war in Ukraine, where drones are responsible for over 70 percent of casualties, shows that future fights will require the ability to rapidly surge unmanned formations.
SOURCE: "Reimagining Paul Revere: Building Drone Brigades in the U.S. Army Reserve" by CSIS's Benjamin Jensen.
1,000 incursions
In 2024, General Gregory M. Guillot, commander of U.S. Northern Command, estimated that there are over 1,000 drone incursions along the United States’ southern border each month
SOURCE: "Illicit Innovation: Latin America Is Not Prepared to Fight Criminal Drones" by CSIS's Henry Ziemer.
By the Numbers is composed weekly by Lauren Adler and the External Relations team.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1962 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It seeks to advance global security and prosperity by providing strategic insights and policy solutions to decisionmakers.
