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Commentary
Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
National Security Is Made of PeopleFor several years, members of Congress and senior defense officials have worried, dramatically and out loud, about the state of military readiness, devoting bipartisan harangu...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
The Nonintervention DelusionRichard Fontaine addresses the most frequently expressed concerns about U.S. military interventions and concludes that the use of military force will remain a key component of...
By Richard Fontaine
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Commentary
Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
How to Make the U.S. Military Weak AgainNo-first-use, or the idea that the United States should not use nuclear weapons unless first attacked with them, has gained traction everywhere from the House Armed Services C...
By Brent Peabody
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Friday Roundtable Podcast: Sep. 13, 2019
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, our guests include Bob Hale, former Pentagon comptroller and senior fellow at the Center for a New Americ...
By Robert F. Hale
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Video
Defense / Middle East Security
Trump's cancelled peace talks with the TalibanChristopher D. Kolenda is a retired US army colonel, and a veteran of the Afghan war. He also played a key role in facilitating peace talks with the Taliban. He tells Deutsche...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Commentary
Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Two Cheers for Esper’s Plan to Reassert Civilian Control of the PentagonThe longest-ever gap in civilian leadership atop the Department of Defense came to an end on July 23, when Mark Esper was sworn in as secretary of defense. His presence in the...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Alice Hunt Friend & Mara Karlin
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Commentary
Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
What would John McCain do?A year ago, the world lost Sen. John McCain. The global response to his passing — largely grief and appreciation from allies and democratic activists, mostly silence from adve...
By Richard Fontaine
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Strategy or Straitjacket? Three Reasons Why People Are Still Arguing About the National Defense Strategy
Commentary
“It feels so weird to not intervene in the Middle East. I know we’re trying to avoid getting sucked in, but it’s hard to say no.” These were the words my colleague uttered dur...
By Chris Dougherty
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Podcast
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Bombshell: The One With Mara JadeThis week on Bombshell Loren and Erin hold down the fort and ask the brilliant Elsa Kania to explain the new Chinese defense white paper. Britain has a new PM, Pakistan’s visi...
By Elsa B. Kania & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe set to replace Dan Coats as US spy chief
Podcast
President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Texas Republican who strongly defended him at a recent congressional hearing, to replace Dan Coa...
By Carrie Cordero
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
The US Is Unprepared to Mobilize for Great Power ConflictThe “fully mobilized Joint Force,” the National Defense Strategy tells us, will be capable of “defeating aggression by a major power; deterring opportunistic aggression elsewh...
By Elsa B. Kania & Emma Moore
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Commentary
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Second Battle of MidwayThe year is 2025 and a Chinese amphibious action group has set out for Taiwan. The United States will intervene to stop this effort, but there isn’t a U.S. ship within 4,000 m...
By David Zikusoka
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France to add a space force to its military
Podcast
France has announced plans for a space force. But what can it do? Why does anyone need a space force? Host Marco Werman speaks with Chris Dougherty, a former leading strategis...
By Chris Dougherty
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Video
Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Perspectives on the Mark Esper nomination hearingRick Berger, research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Loren DeJonge Schulman, deputy director of studies at CNAS, discuss Mark Esper’s confirmation hearing to...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Commentary
Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Acting or Not, the Play’s The ThingThe musical chairs of “acting” officials at the Defense Department has taken on a dizzying pace. Army Secretary Mark Esper became the acting defense secretary after Patrick Sh...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
An Acting Secretary of Defense Isn’t EnoughThe U.S. public is rightfully anxious about U.S. policy on Iran and whether the Trump administration is leading the country toward war in the Persian Gulf. The White House has...
By Jim Townsend
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INF Treaty Defenders Raise the Risk of Nuclear War
Commentary
President Trump last year announced the U.S. would withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. That made sense because Russia was violating the pact and C...
By Elbridge Colby & Rep. Mike Gallagher
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Democrats Face a Defense Spending Conundrum
Commentary
On Wednesday and Thursday, 20 of the two dozen contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination will converge on stage in Miami to make their case to the American people....
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Video
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
One-on-one with former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert WorkThe Chinese government is developing tactics to combat those of the United States. A new report from the Center for a New American Security says that the country is exploring ...
By Robert O. Work
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Defense / Middle East Security
Let’s call the whole thing offTensions with Iran escalated this week and then, Thursday evening, President Trump apparently signed off on airstrikes in Iran only to cancel them. According to reports and an...
By Chris Dougherty
