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National Security Human Capital
Reforming the National Security Council Staff: It’s All about Trust and AccountabilityPresident Trump’s national security team has to be ready to hit the ground running in January. The list of challenges is long: a resurgent and aggressive Russia, a rising Chin...
By Lt Col James Price
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The Battle for Aleppo
By Richard Fontaine
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Why the Trump Administration Should Adopt a Mission-Oriented Combatant Command Structure
It’s often said that to determine someone’s priorities, take a look at how they spend their time and their money. Organizations are no different. Glancing at an organizational...
By Lauren Fish
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Painting by Numbers: A History of the U.S. Military's Phasing Construct
Ask any budding student of security or member of the military where the focus of conflict is, and you’ll hear an emphatic “phase III operations.” The period in which decisive ...
By Lauren Fish
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Commentary
Defense / Technology & National Security
Rebuilding America's MilitaryPresident-elect Trump’s book The Art of the Deal applies the principles of negotiation to business, but they are universal to human nature. A century ago, a previous president...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Rebuilding America's Military: A Defense Transition Brief
Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Future of Warfare Initiative, provides three recommendations for rebuilding America's military: Increase funding with a stable...
By Paul Scharre
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How Trump Can Save the Liberal Order
During the campaign, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump made it clear that he does not like the prevailing international order and rejects key components of traditional U.S. fo...
By Richard Fontaine
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National Security Human Capital
Elephants in Afghanistan: The Military’s Counterinsurgency FailureEarlier this year, several former ISAF commanders and diplomats wrote President Barack Obama, imploring him to freeze troop levels in Afghanistan until the next administration...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital
CNAS Experts' Op-Ed in The Washington PostMore than any other president-elect in recent memory, Donald Trump has sought out military brass to populate his inner circle. Read the full article at The Washington Post...
By Phillip Carter & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Video
Technology & National Security
Dr. Cheryl Walton on Improving the Acquisition ProcessDr. Cheryl Walton from the United States Navy discusses ways to speed up the acquisition process and how to make it work better for everyone....
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Video
Technology & National Security
Jonathan Mostowski on Modernizing DoD TravelDefense Digital Service's Jonathan Mostowski is streamlining and modernizing DoD travel and modernizing DTS with programs like Hack the Pentagon....
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Kill the Iran Deal or Accommodate Russia? Trump Will Have to Choose
Based on Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric some of his priorities in the Middle East – defeating ISIL and ensuring Israel’s security – will be no different than President Obama...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Will The Iran Deal Survive Trump's Presidency?
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National Security Human Capital
Veteran Employment Prospects Are Better Than They’ve Been In A WhileAccording to a new survey, post-9/11 veterans now have unemployment and underemployment rates comparable to their civilian peers....
By Andrew Swick & Amy Schafer
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Deciphering Trump's Asia Policy
Scholars who claim to know with any certainty how U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy will crystalize are engaging in tenuous prophecy. As they and the United S...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Phases of War and the Iraq Experience
The difficulties of applying the U.S. military’s phasing construct to the realities of conflict are rarely more evident than when examining the American experience in Iraq. Th...
By Kevin Shi & Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Pentagon investing billions to develop autonomous weaponsBy Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
A Revolution in Artificial IntelligenceThe Cipher Brief spoke with Paul Scharre about the rationale for, and complications presented by, the development of autonomous weapons systems that could eventually choose an...
By Paul Scharre
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The Growing Competition in the Ocean of Space: Classic Maritime Strategy Applied to the Final Frontier
The United States needs a new lexicon that explains the space environment in clear terms. Whether Americans like it or not, space has morphed from ouraspirational “final front...
By Jerry Hendrix & Michelle Shevin-Coetzee
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On foreign policy, Donald Trump is no realist
In the Washington Post, senior fellow Robert D Kaplan writes an op-ed on Donald Trump's categorization as a realist in foreign policy...
By Robert D. Kaplan
