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• • Commentary
  • War on the Rocks
  • October 15, 2014
  Offset Strategies & Warfighting Regimes

  Today’s headlines are reinforcing the alarms sounded by defense policymakers and analysts warning of the perils of cuts to the defense budget, the blind meat-axe of sequestrat...

  By Shawn Brimley

• • Commentary
  • Defense One
  • October 10, 2014
  To Save the Navy’s Next-Gen Drone, Kill It First

  The Defense Department was set to release this summer the final request for proposal for the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike, or UCLASS, aircraft, b...

  By Paul Scharre & Shawn Brimley

• • Commentary
  • War on the Rocks (blog)
  • July 16, 2014
  Getting Unmanned Naval Aviation Right

  The issue of when and how the U.S. Armed Forces fully integrate unmanned and increasingly autonomous surveillance and strike platforms into their inventory is one of the most ...

  By Shawn Brimley

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • October 10, 2013
  The End of the U.S. Military's Tech Edge?

  Is the American military losing its vaunted technological edge? During the next decade, the rise of new powers and the accelerating diffusion of advanced technology throughout...

  By Ben FitzGerald, Kelley Sayler & Shawn Brimley

• • Commentary
  • August 28, 2013
  The Danger of Strategic Distraction

  By Shawn Brimley

• • Commentary
  • Defense One
  • June 16, 2013
  The Next QDR Is the Last Chance for Sanity

  The next nine months will be the most important period for United States defense strategy since the end of the Cold War. The highly anticiapted Quadrennial Defense Review and,...

  By Shawn Brimley

• • Commentary
  • February 12, 2013
  Renewing America's Strategic Solvency

  Foreign policy experts are likely to feel spurned when President Obama gives his State of the Union speech on Tuesday. Some may interpret the President’s focus on jobs and the...

  By Jacob Stokes & Shawn Brimley