Brian Burton
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Brian Burton is a research associate at the Center of a New American Security. He is currently a graduate student at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program. He earned a B.A. in political science from Stanford University, where he also received Interdisciplinary Honors in International Security Studies and the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for his thesis entitled “Counterinsurgency Principles and U.S. Military Effectiveness in Iraq.
Author(s): Deborah Lutterbeck
Source: Reuters
Date: 03/04/2010
March 4, 2010 - CNAS Research Associate Brian Burton asserts that U.S. domestic political pressures will keep President Obama's Iraq troop withdrawal timeline on schedule in an interview with Reuters.
| more |Author(s): William H. McMichael
Source: Army Times
Date: 02/23/2010
February 23, 2010 - Army Times reports on proposals made in a new CNAS report, Keeping the Edge: Revitalizing America's Military Officer Corps, on how to revamp education and training for U.S. military officers. Gen James Mattis (Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command) echoed these sentiments in his keynote address at the report launch event, saying "at all leadership ranks, we will have to educate better and reward learning in our officer corps, so our leaders can adapt more swiftly than our enemy."
| more |Author(s): John J. Kruzel
Source: Armed Forces Press Service
Date: 02/19/2010
February 19, 2010 - Armed Forces Press Service details remarks made by Gen James Mattis (Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command) in his keynote address at a recent launch event for the new CNAS report, Keeping the Edge: Revitalizing America's Military Officer Corps. “Through education built on an understanding of history and through experience gained on joint coalition operations,” Mattis said, “we can create an officer corps at ease with complex joint and coalition operations.”
| more |Author(s): William H. McMichael
Source: Military Times
Date: 02/17/2010
February 17, 2010 - Military Times reports on proposals made in a new CNAS report, Keeping the Edge: Revitalizing America's Military Officer Corps, on how to revamp education and training for the U.S. military officer corps.
| more |Author(s): Jeff Horwich
Source: Minnesota Public Radio's In the Loop
Date: 12/03/2009
December 3, 2009 – CNAS Research Associate Brian Burton discusses nation-building in Afghanistan on Minnesota Public Radio’s In the Loop. | more |
Source: ISRIA
Date: 10/09/2009
October 9, 2009 - Members of CNAS, including CEO Nathaniel Fick, Senior Fellow Robert Kaplan, Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine, Fellow Abraham Denmark, and Director of Development Venilde Jeronimo, met with President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan during a recent trip to the region. In a speech before the delegation, "President Ma said he believes that the guests [from CNAS] will be a significant force in impacting American policy in the future."
| more |Author(s): Deborah Lutterbeck
Source: Reuters
Date: 07/30/2009
July 30, 2009 - CNAS Research Assistant Brian Burton comments on the recent elections in Northern Iraq and its implications for security in the country for Reuters. Watch the video here.
| more |Author(s): Deborah Lutterbeck
Source: Reuters
Date: 07/17/2009
July 17, 2009 - CNAS Research Assistant Brian Burton discusses the recent violence in Northern Iraq and what it means for overall security in the country with Reuters.
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Author(s): Deborah Lutterbeck
Source: Reuters
Date: 06/18/2009
June 18, 2009 - CNAS Research Assistant Brian Burton discusses the capabilities of the Iraqi security forces with Reuters.
| more |Author(s): John Nagl, Brian Burton
Source: World Politics Review
Date: 05/04/2009
May 4, 2009 - CNAS President John Nagl and Research Assistant Brian Burton penned an open letter to Ambassador Hill in World Politics Review outlining recommendations for U.S. diplomacy toward Iraq. "You must avoid getting caught up in the details of day-to-day crisis management and instead take a long-term strategic view of what kind of relationship the United States wants to have with Iraq 10 years from now."
| more |Author(s): Dr. John A. Nagl, Brian M. Burton, Dr. Don M. Snider, Frank G. Hoffman, Captain Mark R. Hagerott, USN, Colonel Roderick C. Zastrow, USAF
Type of Publication: Report
Date: 02/04/2010
This report provides an analysis of the nature of U.S. military officership in a new strategic environment and provides recomendations for how the United States can keep its edge in the officer corps amidst an ever-increasing array of challenges.
| more |Author(s): Brian Burton
Type of Publication: Policy Brief
Date: 01/19/2010
To help inform the State Department's Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), this policy brief lays out lessons learned from the Department of Defense’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) that the State Department and USAID can learn from to optimize the review process and avoid common pitfalls.
| more |Author(s): John A. Nagl, Brian M. Burton
Type of Publication: Report
Date: 06/11/2009
Since 2003, debates about America’s role in Iraq have focused on how to withdraw U.S. forces. Yet the search for an “end game” emphasizes a short-term objective - getting out of Iraq - and sidesteps the strategic imperative of establishing an enduring relationship with a key country in a region of vital importance to the United States.
| more |Author(s): John A. Nagl
Type of Publication: Report
Date: 06/27/2007
The most important military component of the Long War will not be the fighting we do ourselves, but how well we enable and empower our allies to fight with us. After describing the many complicated, interrelated, and simultaneous tasks that must be conducted to defeat an insurgency, the new Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual notes “Key to all these tasks is developing an effective host-nation (HN) security force.” Indeed, it has been argued that foreign forces cannot defeat an insurgency; the best they can hope for is to create the conditions that will enable local forces to win for them. [We] will need far more urgently in years to come—an Army that includes a standing Advisor Corps organized, designed, trained, and equipped to develop professional host nation security forces that can build freedom abroad.
| more |Type: Audio
Date: 12/03/2009
December 3, 2009 – CNAS Research Associate Brian Burton discusses nation-building in Afghanistan on Minnesota Public Radio’s In the Loop.
| more |Speaker(s): GEN Jack Keane, Dr. John A. Nagl, Thomas E. Ricks, George Packer, Ambassador Samir Sumaida'ie
Type: Transcript
Date: 06/11/2009
The full transcript of the panel "After the Fire: Shaping the U.S. Relationship with Iraq" from the June 11, 2009, conference is available here.
| more |02/17/2010
The U.S. military officer corps faces an ever-increasing array of challenges. With current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and a complex global environment, the United States is relying on its armed forces to perform a wider variety of functions than any other nation in history. CNAS’s latest report, Keeping the Edge: Revitalizing America's Military Officer Corps, analyzes the changing nature of military officership and provides recommendations for how the U.S. military officer corps can keep its edge in a new strategic environment.
| more |01/19/2010
To help inform the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) the Center for a New American Security launched today its project on Reinvigorating American Diplomacy and Development with the release of two policy briefs on the QDDR, Engaging the Private Sector for the Public Good: The Power of Network Diplomacy by CNAS Vice President Dr. Kristin Lord and Learning from Experience: Lessons from the QDR for the QDDR by CNAS Research Associate Brian Burton.
| more |08/25/2009
The Obama administration inherited the most daunting national security challenges in generations - ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, violent extremism, the rise of regional powers in Asia, and the dangers of climate change are just a few. Keeping these issues and CNAS' mission to prepare and foster the next generation of national security leaders in mind, CNAS launched the Next Generation National Security Leaders Program, inspired by The American Assembly's Next Generation Project.
06/09/2009
WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 9, 2009 - CNAS has released several new reports and working papers for its third annual conference, “Striking a Balance: A New American Security" on Thursday, June 11. Topics include Iraq, Afghanistan-Pakistan, Natural Security, and combating violent extremism. Each report offers strong, principled and pragmatic recommendations on how to strike a balance between immediate and long-term national security challenges facing the United States.
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