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National Security Governance for the 21st Century

This project is designed to provide policymakers with a clear-eyed assessment of why administrations often fail at the outset of taking power, particularly in national security and foreign policy, and to suggest how to prepare for and conduct a that better protect U.S. national interests.

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  • Strengthening the Readiness of the U.S. Military
    Type of Publication: Congressional Testimony
    Date: 02/14/2008

    This CNAS Congressional Testimony contains Michèle A. Flournoy's prepared statement to the House Armed Services Committee, on Feb. 14, 2008. According to Flournoy, "the readiness of the U.S. military is just barely keeping pace with current operations. The fight to recruit and keep personnel, and the need to repair and modernize equipment, also means that building and regaining readiness is becoming increasingly costly."

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  • Strengthening the Readiness of the U.S. Military
    Type of Publication: Factsheet
    Date: 02/06/2008

    This CNAS Congressional Testimony contains Michèle A. Flournoy's prepared statement to the House Armed Services Committee, on Feb. 14, 2008. According to Flournoy, "the readiness of the U.S. military is just barely keeping pace with current operations. The fight to recruit and keep personnel, and the need to repair and modernize equipment, also means that building and regaining readiness is becoming increasingly costly."

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  • Achieving Unity of Effort in Interagency Operations
    Type of Publication: Congressional Testimony
    Date: 01/29/2008

    In testimony given to the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Flournoy writes that "In the last two decades, the United States has experienced some truly stellar military victories: rolling back Saddam Hussein’s aggression against Kuwait in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, establishing a secure environment for the implementation of peace accords in the Balkans, driving the Taliban from power in Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and toppling Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime in a matter of weeks."

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  • The Quadrennial Defense Review: A Model for the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review
    Type of Publication: Congressional Testimony
    Date: 03/20/2007
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  • Philippine leader seeks US assurance on defense
    Type: News Item
    Source: Associated Press

    June 8, 2012 — CNAS Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program Dr. Patrick Cronin comments in the AP that the U.S. and the Philippines need to cooperate in order to build the Philippines' military capacity and deter Chinese coercion.

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  • Attacking Iran Likely Counter-Productive, Think Tank Warns
    Type: News Item
    Source: IPS

    June 6, 2012 — Jim Lobe reacts to the new CNAS report Risk and Rivalry: Iran, Israel and the Bomb, noting that preventive military action should remain on the table, but only if Iran has made a clear move toward developing a weapon and the U.S. could significantly set back the process.

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  • Panetta calls on India to step up in Afghanistan
    Type: News Item
    Source: NPR

    June 6, 2012 — Senior Director of the CNAS Asia-Pacific Security Program Dr. Patrick Cronin talks with NPR about India's preoccupation with China's rise.

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  • The Age of Unsatisfying Wars
    Type: News Item
    Source: The New York Times

    June 6, 2012 — In a piece for The New York Times, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow John Nagl writes that today's counterinsurgency wars are unsatifying and do not always end with what looks like a conventional victory.

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  • Covert Wars, Waged Virally
    Type: News Item
    Source: The New York Times

    June 5, 2012 — In the New York Times, CNAS Senior Fellow Tom Ricks reviews David Sanger's book "Confront and Conceal," about the American role in using computer warfare to attack Iran’s nuclear program.

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  • Leon Panetta in India amid US focus on Asia
    Type: News Item
    Source: NY Daily News

    June 5, 2012 — CNAS Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program Patrick Cronin said India is unwilling to tightly align with US objectives because of the myriad of challenges it faces domestically. 

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  • DOD looks to foreign allies for help passing Law of the Sea treaty
    Type: News Item
    Source: The Hill

    June 4, 2012 — CNAS Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program Patrick Cronin said Panetta is trying to generate support for the Law of the Sea treaty among regional allies in the Pacific.

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  • Panetta explains Pentagon's 'pivot' toward Asia
    Type: News Item
    Source: LA Times

    June 1, 2012 — CNAS Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program Patrick Cronin said Japan and other U.S. allies worry that with defense cuts, it will be difficult for Washington to have a strong security presence in Asia.

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  • Competing perspectives on American grand strategy
    Type: News Item
    Source: Foreign Policy

    May 31, 2012 — In Foreign Policy, Peter Feaver writes about the new CNAS report America’s Path: Grand Strategy for the Next Administration.

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  • In Depth Interview with Nora Bensahel - Federal News Radio
    Type: News Item
    Source: Federal News Radio 1500 AM

    May 30, 2012 — Nora Bensahel discusses the new CNAS report Sustainable Pre-eminence with Federal News Radio and speaks to how the U.S. can maintain a strong military while minimizing costs.

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  • David Asher
    Dr. David Asher
    Non-Resident Senior Fellow

    Dr. David Asher is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at CNAS, where he specializes in issues related to Asia, economics and security. 

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  • David Barno
    Lieutenant General David W. Barno, USA (Ret.)
    Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow

    General Barno, a highly decorated military officer with over 30 years of service, has served in a variety of command and staff positions in the United States and around the world, to include command at every level. He served many of his early years in special operations forces with Army Ranger battalions, to include combat in both the Grenada and Panama invasions. In 2003, he was selected to establish a new three-star operational headquarters in Afghanistan and take command of the 20,000 U.S. and Coalition Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom. For 19 months in this position, he was responsible for the overall military leadership of this complex political-military mission, devising a highly innovative counterinsurgency strategy in close partnership with the U.S. embassy and coalition allies.

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  • Dr. Victor Cha
    Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies

    Victor Cha was named to the newly created Korea Chair at CSIS in May 2009. He is also a professor of government and director for Asian Studies at Georgetown University. From 2004 to 2007, he was director for Asian affairs at the White House, where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy for Japan, the two Koreas, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Island nations. He also served as U.S. deputy head of delegation to the Six-Party Talks and has acted as a senior consultant on East Asian security issues for different branches of the U.S. government.

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  • Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
    Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program

    Patrick M. Cronin is a Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).  Previously, he was the Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at National Defense University and has a nearly 30-year career inside government and academic research centers, spanning defense affairs, foreign policy, and development assistance.

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  • Robert Leslie Deak
    Robert Leslie Deak
    Board of Directors, National Defense University

    Robert Leslie Deak is President and Chief Executive Officer of Bittachon Holdings, Inc, a firm based out of Rye, New York, that develops and manages companies in the United States and the broader Middle East. Previously, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American National Bank of New York from 1985 to 1991 and before that was President and CEO of Deak-Perera US, Inc., from 1973 to 1985.

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  • Peter deNeufville
    Peter B. deNeufville
    Chairman, Voltaix, LLC

    Peter deNeufville serves as Chairman of Voltaix, L.L.C., a manufacturer of chemical-vapor-deposition materials for the semiconductor and thin-film photovoltaic industries.  He is also a partner in DNAC, a New York-based merchant advisory firm.  He has helped finance and served as a director for a number of early-stage technology companies. 

    Mr. deNeufville is also active in national security and environmental issues.  He is a reserve officer in the U.S.

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  • David Finkel
    David Finkel
    Writer in Residence

    David Finkel is the author of The Good Soldiers, a ground-level account of the U.S. "surge" into the Iraq war, published in 2009 by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. An editor and writer for The Washington Post, Finkel has reported from Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, and across the United States, and was part of the Post’s war coverage in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2006 for a series of stories about U.S.

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  • Michele Flournoy
    The Honorable Michèle Flournoy
    Co-Chair of the Board of Directors, Center for a New American Security

    Michèle Flournoy is Co-Chair of  the Board of Directors of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and a senior adviser at the Boston Consulting Group.  She  served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012.  She was the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations.

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  • Richard Fontaine
    President

    Richard Fontaine is the President of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He served as a Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow at CNAS from 2009-2012.  He previously served as foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain for more than five years.  He has also worked at the State Department, the National Security Council and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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  • Mike Green
    Dr. Michael Green
    Senior Advisor and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies

    Michael Green is a senior adviser and holds the Japan Chair at CSIS, as well as being an associate professor of international relations at Georgetown University. He served as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) from January 2004 to December 2005. He joined the NSC in April 2001 as director of Asian affairs with responsibility for Japan, Korea, and Australia/New Zealand.

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