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National Security Human Capital Program
Naysayers Are Learning the Wrong Lessons About the Littoral Combat ShipRecently, the distinguished national security practitioner and analyst Lawrence Korb, whom I hold in the highest professional regard, detailed four lessons from the saga of th...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
The DIUx Is Dead. Long Live The DIUx.Defense Secretary Ash Carter launched his high-profile Silicon Valley outpost a year ago to great fanfare and high expectations. Less than a year later, he has completely over...
By Ben FitzGerald & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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National Security Human Capital Program
Observations on Global Military PostureThe secretary of defense has outsized influence over America’s global network of bases, the number of military personnel stationed overseas, and the frequency of internation...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Shawn Brimley
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National Security Human Capital Program
Trump's nuclear views are terrifying: ColumnThe contours of Donald Trump’s foreign policy are becoming disturbingly clear. Newspapers have labeled his thinking on international affairs "isolationist” and “unabashedly no...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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National Security Human Capital Program
Ignoring War Authorization Widens the Civil-Military DivideFifteen years after the last Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) and one week before President Obama delivered the State of the Union address, yet another servi...
By Amy Schafer
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Podcast
National Security Human Capital Program
Katherine Kidder on Women in CombatCNAS Bacevich Fellow Katherine Kidder discusses Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's announcement on expanding the roles of women in the military....
By Katherine Kidder
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
Shaping U.S. Policy on Islamic State Amid Shifting PoliticsAn ABC News-Washington Post poll conducted after the Nov. 13 Paris attacks found that 73% of Americans support increased airstrikes against Islamic State and 60% favor increas...
By Richard Fontaine
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National Security Human Capital Program
Introducing Agenda SecDefOne year from now, somewhere in a small suite of offices at the Pentagon, a team of civil servants, military officers, and a smattering of outside civilians will be hard at wo...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Shawn Brimley
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
ISIS and the Logic of AnarchyThe terrorist attacks in Paris, beyond their obvious horror, recalled to me the words of the late Bernard Fall, a French-American historian and war correspondent in Vietnam. I...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
How to Fight-and Beat-ISISIn bringing terror to one of the world’s most beloved cities, ISIS did far more than wreak devastation on Parisians out for a Friday evening. The coordinated attacks ensured t...
By Richard Fontaine
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National Security Human Capital Program
Countering Russian Nuclear Strategy In Central EuropeThe Setting Conflict involving Russia has become materially more plausible in Eastern Europe in recent years. Coupled with Russia’s increased focus on manipulating its large a...
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Elbridge Colby before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic ForcesElbridge Colby testified before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on adapting U.S. nuclear strategy and posture to a more contested and competitive wor...
By Elbridge Colby
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National Security Human Capital Program
Why Military Personnel Reform MattersThe United States is notoriously bad at predicting future conflicts and changes in the international order. From the bestselling The Coming War With Japan in the early 1990s t...
By Amy Schafer
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Obama's veto of defense bill offers conservatives opportunity to think hard about spendingThe Congress finds itself dealing with a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act from the president and has no reason to act surprised. A redistributionist president, c...
By Jerry Hendrix
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National Security Human Capital Program
America Must Prepare for 'Limited War'AMERICA’S MILITARY preeminence is eroding. As the Pentagon and defense experts are becoming increasingly fervent in insisting, there are growing challenges to the dominance of...
By Elbridge Colby
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National Security Human Capital Program
Why foreign troops can't fight our fightsIn a pair of stunningly candid admissions during the past few weeks, the U.S. Central Command has signaled that a $500 million effort to train and equip Syrian rebel forces ha...
By Phillip Carter
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Terrible But Justified: The U.S. A-Bomb Attacks on Hiroshima and NagasakiWere the atomic bomb attacks on Japan in August 1945 justifiable? As the world marks the 70th anniversary of these momentous and terrifying events, it is important to ask this...
By Elbridge Colby
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
How to constrain Iran's support for terrorism - and still make a dealOne of the major criticisms of the nuclear deal with Iran is that lifting economic sanctions will strengthen Iran’s ability to support terrorist groups and other activities th...
By Peter Harrell
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National Security Human Capital Program / Energy, Economics & Security
Security assistance isn't the quick fix the US thinks it isBuilding partner capacity, or BPC, has become all the rage. But the recent capture of U.S.-trained rebels in Syria by the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra front is the latest in a...
By Dafna Rand
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National Security Human Capital Program
America's Allies Want More From the USDuring the past several years, U.S. allies got a “reset” and a “rebalance,” but what they really need and want is reassurance. During our time in the Obama administration, we ...
By Julianne Smith
