Center for a New American Security

The Cable has posted the new National Security Strategy, due to be released today at Brookings. My initial impression, which I shared with my colleagues at CNAS, is posted below:

The president will unveil his new national security strategy tomorrow, and early signs are pointing toward "preventing nuclear proliferation" being one of the core goals of this new strategy.

Travis Sharpe better watch out, because Shawn Brimley used to sit in his comfortable perch at CNAS and write all kinds of sensible stuff about the budget and the QDR, and look where it got him: in charge of the latter. That hasn't stopped Travis from writing this timely primer on the QDR and the new defense budget, which you can read here.

Steve Biddle, in typically intelligent analysis, considers a "double transformation":

Ironically, the traditionalists are right about tomorrow, but the young Turks are right about today.

From Inside Defense:

The Washington Post:

I am not the pro's pro on the defense budget, but Michael O'Hanlon's worry in today's Post seems warranted.

American public support for the Afghan war will dissipate in less than a year unless the Obama administration achieves "a perceptible shift in momentum," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21293.html

Those Navy snipers off the coast of Somalia might have done more than simply rescue an American ship captain.

They’re also giving Defense Secretary Robert Gates a new argument for his plan to steer Pentagon spending toward small-scale fights and dial back the Pentagon’s focus on multibillion-dollar weapons.