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Sustaining the Future of Indo-Pacific Defense Strategy
Commentary
The 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) should sustain the Indo-Pacific as the priority theater....
By Lindsey Ford
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A Resource-Sustainable Strategy for Countering Violent Extremist Organizations
Commentary
The United States has been trying to pivot from counterterrorism to strategic interstate competition for almost a decade....
By Stephen Tankel
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Overcoming the Tyranny of Time: The Role of U.S. Forward Posture in Deterrence and Defense
Commentary
The next defense strategy has the opportunity to codify the critical role of forward posture....
By Billy Fabian
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Commentary
Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
The All-Volunteer Force: Civil-Military Relations Hit Home—and AbroadTensions in the civil-military relationship threaten national security from conflicts abroad to cities across the United States....
By Nathalie Grogan
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The Decline of Deterrence
Commentary
Deterrence is not as stable as believed, and is becoming less so....
By Dr. Andrew F. Krepinevich
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The Next National Defense Strategy Will Be Shaped by Post-BCA Budget Instability
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The post-BCA world will lead to greater uncertainty for the federal budget....
By Diem Salmon
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Addressing Deepening Russia-China RelationsRussia-China cooperation increases the challenge that each country poses to the United States....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jeffrey Edmonds
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Plagues Are Back. Will Wars Follow?
Commentary
In geopolitics, as in biology, it turns out that mankind remains susceptible to new strains of old maladies....
By Vance Serchuk
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A Strategy for Competition
Commentary
DoD needs a strategy that uses its military strength to persuade friends and, when necessary, coerce rivals....
By Melanie W. Sisson
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Defining DoD’s Role in Gray Zone Competition
Commentary
Note: This paper offers a counterpoint to another in this series, “A Strategy for Competition" (forthcoming), by Melanie Sisson....
By Jim Mitre & Andre Gellerman
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Navy Force Structure in the Next National Defense Strategy
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The discussion of Navy force structure is both timely and urgent....
By Admiral John Richardson, USN (Ret.)
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Next Generation Defense Strategy: Space
Commentary
Without significant changes in defense policy, programs, and staffing, U.S. strategic competitors will transform the nation’s asymmetric advantage into an asymmetric vulnerabi...
By Sarah Mineiro
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Institutional Roadblocks to the Defense Department’s Adoption of AIBureaucratic inertia, stemming in part from deep-rooted institutional and cultural resistance, has hampered DoD’s ability to rapidly develop, acquire, and deploy AI capabiliti...
By Megan Lamberth & Martijn Rasser
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Can China’s Military Win the Tech War?The United States and its allies should take seriously Beijing’s efforts to militarize China’s technological base....
By Anja Manuel & Kathleen Hicks
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Make China the Explicit Priority in the Next NDS
Commentary
The Bottom Line The new NDS is an opportunity for the next Secretary of Defense in January 2021 to do three things: Further deepen and explicitly state the current NDS’s sound...
By Mark Montgomery & Eric Sayers
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The Defense Industrial Base of the Future
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The next iteration of defense technologies will require much more overlap with commercial industry....
By Mikhail Grinberg
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A Deadly Game: East China Sea Crisis 2030
Video
On July 22, 2020, audience members played along as the CNAS Defense team and leading experts conducted a virtual wargame in the year 2030, exploring command and information co...
By Richard Fontaine, Susanna V. Blume, Shai Korman, Chris Dougherty, Becca Wasser, Dr. ED McGrady, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Martijn Rasser, Kara Frederick, Bryan Walsh, LTG Anthony R. "Tony" Ierardi, USA (Ret.), Sarah Mineiro & Eric Heginbotham
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China's military capabilities are gaining on the U.S. The Pentagon needs to take bold steps.
American war games indicate that the current U.S. force may be insufficient to deter or defeat Chinese aggression in the future....
By Michèle Flournoy & Gabrielle Chefitz
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Defense / Middle East Security
Demilitarizing U.S. Policy in the Middle EastThe next NDS must detail a new approach to the Middle East....
By Ilan Goldenberg & Kaleigh Thomas
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Updates on defense appropriations for 2021
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Susanna Blume, Senior Fellow and Director of the Defense Program at CNAS, provides updates on the House Appropriation Committee’s Defense spending bill for fiscal 2021 and its...
By Susanna V. Blume
