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Testimony on “Investing in America’s Economic and National Security”
Congressional Testimony
Introduction I want to thank Chairman Yarmuth, and Ranking member Womack, for the opportunity to testify before the House Budget Committee today concerning the need to invest ...
By Steven Kosiak
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Addressing China and Russia’s Emergence as Great Power Competitors and the Implementation of the National Defense Strategy
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Reed, and distinguished members of this Committee, for the invitation to appear before you. It is a great honor to testify before this ...
By Elbridge Colby
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Strategizing around increasing defense threats & shrinking budgets
Video
In this two-part interview, Elbridge Colby, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development and director of the defense program at the Center f...
By Elbridge Colby
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Dear Pentagon: It’s Not How Big Your Budget Is. It’s How You Use It.
Commentary
Over the past two months, unusually public negotiations between the White House and the U.S. Department of Defense on the 2020 defense budget request have bounced from $733 bi...
By Susanna V. Blume
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The Eroding Balance of Terror
Commentary
Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars,” the American nuclear strategist Bernard Brodie wrote in 1946. “From now on its chief purpose mu...
By Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr.
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Progressives Should Embrace the Politics of Defense
In his essay on what a progressive national security agenda should look like, Van Jackson proposes to stretch the common progressive position of anti-militarism to a more real...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Against the Great Powers: Reflections on Balancing Nuclear and Conventional Power
Commentary
The fundamental problem facing U.S. national security — and indeed grand — strategy is clear: The United States seeks to extend deterrence to dozens of allies in parts of the ...
By Elbridge Colby
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Podcast
Defense / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Bombshell: Come What MayErin, Radha, and Loren invited Dr. Lindsay Cohn of the U.S. Naval War College to join their posse and explain America’s history of employing the military for domestic purposes...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Lindsay Cohn, Radha Iyengar & Erin Simpson
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Podcast
Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Loren DeJonge Schulman on The Smell of Victory PodcastOn The Smell of Victory Podcast, Bob Hein and Phil Walter sat down with Loren DeJonge Schulman of the Center for a New American Security to discuss the draft. Listen to the f...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Susanna V. Blume on Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Bob Hale,(who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton &m...
By Susanna V. Blume
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CNAS’ Colby on Nuclear Strategy, Deterrence, Developing New Capabilities, INF Treaty
Video
Bridge Colby, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force planning — one of the authors of the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy — n...
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Assessing America's Indo-Pacific Budget ShortfallBudgets are policy in Washington. Setting new trends in Pentagon and State Department funding is a tall order, so when they do emerge, they are the strongest indication of a g...
By Eric Sayers
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Susanna V. Blume on Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast
Podcast
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Byron Callan of the independent equity research ...
By Susanna V. Blume
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A shrinking budget can’t be allowed to kill modernization
Commentary
For decades, the Pentagon, abetted by Congress, has behaved like a parent raiding a child’s college fund to pay monthly bills, rather than tightening its belt. Myopically robb...
By Chris Dougherty
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Surviving the U.S. Withdrawal From the Iran Nuclear Deal: What We Do—and Don’t—Need to Worry About
Commentary
In a September interview with Germany’s Der Speigel, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated that if Europe could not meet Iran’s demands for sustained economic b...
By Eric Brewer
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Exiting the Russia nuclear treaty impacts military strategy in Asia
Commentary
President Trump recently announced that the United States will soon exit the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia. This will open significant options for the U...
By Eric Sayers & Abraham M. Denmark
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The INF Treaty hamstrings the U.S. Trump is right to leave it.
Commentary
The Trump administration has announced that it plans to withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987. This treaty banned the United States and Russ...
By Elbridge Colby
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Commentary
Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
If You Want Peace, Prepare for Nuclear WarIn a little under three decades, nuclear weapons have gone from center stage to a sideshow in U.S. defense strategy. Since the 1990s, the United States has drastically reduced...
By Elbridge Colby
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Susanna V. Blume on Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, our guests include Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Ilan Berma...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Numbers game: How the Air Force is following the Army and Navy’s bad example
Commentary
On Sept. 17, Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson stole a page from the Army and the Navy, announcing that the Air Force needed to grow its number of operational squadron...
By Susanna V. Blume
