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Navigating the Billions
Commentary
Introduction If you have never interacted with the defense budget it can be daunting. The process is made up of dozens of acronyms and the data is spread over thousands of pag...
By Molly Parrish
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The Overseas Basing Debate, Part 1
Host Kathleen Hicks moderates a discussion on the major debates surrounding U.S. overseas military forces with CNAS Defense program director, Susanna Blume, as well as&nb...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Why We Need A New Cold War Strategic Approach
Commentary
The United States needs to create a set of long-term concerted strategies of a type not seen since the Cold War if it is to successfully compete against Russia and China. Thos...
By Will Mackenzie
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Commentary
Defense / Technology & National Security
When the homefront becomes the (cyber) front lineAmerican soldiers have long marched off to war with one assurance: by fighting abroad they were keeping their families safe at home. Today, advances in digital technology comb...
By COL Sarah Albrycht
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Podcast
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Working Advance for the U.S. State DepartmentWhen American diplomats travel abroad and meet with foreign leaders, who works behind the scenes to make sure everything runs smoothly? What negotiations go into preparing for...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Price B. Floyd
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Podcast
Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Building the World’s Biggest BudgetWhat do the Pentagon's decisions about military spending say about our priorities as a nation? What goes into the DoD's $700 billion budget each year? Former Pentagon official...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Susanna V. Blume
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Transcript from CNAS Fireside Chat with General David L. Goldfein
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On January 27, 2020, CNAS hosted the 21st Chief of Staff of the Air Force General David L. Goldfein for a conversation with Susanna V. Blume, Director of the CNAS Defense Prog...
By Susanna V. Blume & General David L. Goldfein
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Armed services continuously make procurement reforms
Podcast
There has been years of continuous procurement reform for the Defense Department. Tinkering by Congress has rendered procurement into a sort of laboratory. And each of the arm...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Winning the Next War
Video
Chinese and Russian capabilities to exploit vulnerabilities in America's current way of war have grown. Without major changes to how it fights its wars, does the United States...
By Robert O. Work & Chris Dougherty
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Podcast
Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Working National Security on John McCain’s Presidential CampaignRichard Fontaine spent years advising leading figures in American foreign policy, but working for the late Sen. John McCain was unlike anything he had experienced before. Now ...
By Richard Fontaine & Ilan Goldenberg
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Interservice rivalries: A force for good
It’s no secret that the military services fight hard to protect their shares of the defense budget. Just last week, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday made his case...
By Susanna V. Blume & Molly Parrish
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Podcast
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Stories from the Backchannel: Season Two TrailerNow more than ever, Americans are interested in the people working behind the scenes on consequential national security decisions. In Season Two of Stories from the Backchanne...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Richard Fontaine, Susanna V. Blume, Kayla M. Williams, Price B. Floyd, Kurt Campbell & Kara Frederick
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Commentary
Defense / Middle East Security
Sending Troops Back to the Middle East Won’t Stop IranThe Trump administration’s decision to kill Qassam Soleimani is the latest in an escalatory “maximum pressure” Iran strategy that is shifting American foreign policy attention...
By Chris Dougherty & Kaleigh Thomas
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Commentary
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Defense Strategy for a Post-Trump WorldIn a recent piece warning about an emerging arms race in hypersonic missiles, The New York Times quoted Will Roper, the Air Force’s senior acquisition and technology official,...
By Van Jackson
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Experimenting with different approaches to acquisitions
Video
Susanna Blume, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at the CNAS Defense Program, details how military branches are taking different approaches to procurement, and how each one is...
By Susanna V. Blume
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The state of acquisition is in need of better coordination
Commentary
The U.S. defense enterprise has been in a near-constant state of acquisition reform since the 1980s. Although it has been a top Pentagon priority, expected competition with Ch...
By Susanna V. Blume & Mikhail Grinberg
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Video
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS: Bold Ideas for National SecurityThis year, CNAS experts brought bold ideas and bipartisan cooperation to the national security conversation. In 2020, the CNAS team will continue tackling the biggest security...
By Susanna V. Blume, Kara Frederick, Kayla M. Williams, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Richard Fontaine, Kristine Lee, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Ely Ratner, Paul Scharre, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Carrie Cordero
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Results of the second Pentagon audit
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Bob Hale discusses takeaways from the Department of Defense’s latest audit, and the impacts it’s having on the agency’s culture.Watch the full conversation on Government Matte...
By Robert F. Hale
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Friday Roundtable
Podcast
On the Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Podcast, Robert F. Hale joins Todd Harrison, the director of defense budget analysis and the Aerospace Security Project at...
By Robert F. Hale
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Commentary
Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
The Enduring Relevance of Reagan’s Westminster SpeechEditor’s Note: This is the third in a series of three essays, commissioned by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, examining the legacy of Reagan’s Westmin...
By Richard Fontaine
