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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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CNAS’ Colby on Nuclear Strategy, Deterrence, Developing New Capabilities, INF Treaty
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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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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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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
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The Pentagon must modernize before it’s too late
Commentary
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon has a genuinely new strategy: Focus on our rivals — Russia and, in particular, China — and maintain a competitiv...
By Robert O. Work & Elbridge Colby
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Discussion with Secretary of the Air Force, Dr. Heather Wilson
Video
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted a discussion with Secretary of the Air Force, the Honorable Dr. Heather Wilson, on strategic competition, Air Force readin...
By Jaelin Lespier
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Adam Routh Speaks to i24News about Space Force
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Adam Routh, Research Associate at the Center for a New American Security, and John Jordan, former intelligence officer and Republican strategist, speak with i24News Anchor Mic...
By Adam Routh
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Commentary
Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Commentary: Success, or failure, of new Army Command rests on CongressIn July, the U.S. Army announced that Austin will be the location for its new Futures Command headquarters. The command, intended to be the spearhead of the Army’s modernizati...
By Cole Stevens
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The U.S. Military Should Be Doubling Down on Space
Commentary
My colleague Paul Scharre recently wrote that the development of a #SpaceForce is misguided. His argument is based on the assumption that it will generally be cheaper to build...
By Adam Routh
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The military’s biggest challenge? Trump.
Podcast
Jenn sits down with returning guest Alex Ward and special guestLoren DeJonge Schulman, a defense expert at the Center for a New American Security, to talk about why the hell t...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
